About
One employer, five engineering levels
I am Abdullah Al-Munzir, a full-stack software engineer. Since 1 July 2024, I have been a Staff Software Engineer at Brain Station 23. I still design and ship software. The Staff scope is the judgment around those systems: boundaries, identity, and what the team can maintain.
I have spent the whole of this career at Brain Station 23, from trainee in 2019 to Staff. The through-line is product work: Python services, relational data, a frontend when the feature needs one, and the operational path after release. TEQ Fleet Management was a major part of that foundation: multi-tenant fleet workflows, live tracking, customer features, and full-stack delivery.
That progression taught me to evaluate architecture from both sides: the decision itself and the implementation work a team must operate afterward.
How I work
- Write the trade-off down before the implementation makes it implicit.
- Stay on the code path. A review I will not implement myself is a weaker review.
- Treat production ownership as part of the design, not a handover at the end.
- Use AI to expand options and evidence—not to outsource engineering accountability for what ships.
AI-agent engineering in practice
I designed and implemented FinMind AI, an independent personal-finance MVP built around a LlamaIndex agent. The project gave me hands-on experience defining agent tools, user-specific context, retrieval boundaries, and provider abstractions—not only integrating an LLM API. Model output remains input to a decision; people still own what the system does.
Selected timeline
A fuller chronology, including every responsibility, is available in my resume.
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Jul 2024 — present
Staff Software Engineer
Backend leadership on Kirin WellWa and architecture plus implementation of Tsuruha’s identity platform.
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Jul 2022 — Jun 2024
Senior Software Engineer
Technical design across Scrum teams, including an event-driven AWS integration and full-stack delivery in Django and Vue.js.
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Jan 2021 — Jun 2022
Software Engineer
Monolith-to-microservices migration, Auth0 single sign-on, and object-level access control.
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Aug 2019 — Dec 2020
Trainee, then Associate Software Engineer
Full-stack product work on TEQ, a Norway-based multi-tenant and multilingual fleet management platform, plus an Odoo-to-Django migration. Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, and React.
Skills I use in the work above
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Backend
Python, Django, Django REST framework, FastAPI, Flask, SQLAlchemy
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Data and APIs
PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, REST APIs
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Frontend
JavaScript, React, Vue.js
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Cloud and delivery
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Celery, SQS, EventBridge, CI/CD
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Practices
System design, Code review, Pytest, Playwright, Technical mentoring
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AI-agent systems
LlamaIndex, LLM APIs, Agent tool design, Context and retrieval boundaries, Provider abstractions, Evaluation planning
Education and credentials
- B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Daffodil International University, 2019. CGPA 3.89 / 4.00.
- Professional Scrum Master I, Scrum.org, August 2021.
- Advanced Certificate for Management Professionals (ACMP 4.0), Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka, January 2024.
- AI-Driven Software Architect Mentoring Program, Brain Station 23, November 2025 — January 2026.