GCL International Ltd & GCL Business Intelligence
Dhaka, Bangladesh BranchUK-based multinational audit, inspection and certification group operating across 50+ countries for 30+ years.
- Technical Project Manager & Senior Software Engineer
- Senior Software EngineerJan 2024 – Dec 2024
- Software EngineerJul 2022 – Dec 2023
- Own product direction for 30+ internal and client-facing platforms — turning ambiguous business problems into structured requirements, prioritized roadmaps and technical specs, then driving them through design, development and delivery.
- Designed and built 20+ custom Laravel platforms from scratch — ERP, SaaS, CRM and compliance systems for clients across 50+ countries — none from templates or off-the-shelf boilerplate.
- Led 50+ software projects and delivered 20+ end-to-end: requirements, solution design, development, UAT, deployment and iteration.
- Designed the relational database schemas behind these systems, including multi-tenant and role-based access models, with attention to normalisation, indexing and query performance.
- Built and integrated RESTful APIs connecting internal platforms with first- and third-party services, including payment gateways and external reporting tools.
- Applied secure-by-design practices — role-based access control, secure transaction handling and input validation — across production systems, backed by an ISO/IEC 27001 information security certification.
- Reduced reported software defects by approximately 30% through PHPUnit test coverage, code review and mentoring junior engineers, while resolving 5,000+ application and support issues at a 100% resolution rate.
- Coordinate developers and designers across concurrent projects, and interview and screen candidates for engineering roles as the team scales.
- Eliminated roughly $1,000 per year in recurring third-party software costs by building an in-house customized ERP & CRM and an automated workflow system.
- Built workflow automation with Google Apps Script, improving operations team productivity by approximately 37%.
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