Hello, I'm
Azraf Al Monzim
Backend & Platform Engineer
I help startup teams ship reliable Go and TypeScript backends on Cloudflare and AWS — with the operational discipline of a platform engineering team, without the full-time headcount.
.png)
2,829
GitHub Contributions
Skills & Expertise
Where I spend most of my time, and the broader set I'm comfortable reaching for when a project calls for it.
Use daily
GoPostgreSQL
RedisTypeScriptDocker
Git
Linux
gRPCComfortable with
React
Next.js
Node.js
Flutter
Kafka
RabbitMQ
MongoDB
DynamoDB
Kubernetes
TerraformAWS
REST APIsEverything else
40▾
Dart
Java
Bash
Lua
C
JavaScriptSQL
CQLGinFiber
NestJS
Express.js
Hono.js
ElysiaJS
LangChain
Langflow
OpenAI API
Crew AI
CockroachDBCassandra
Firebase
Appwrite
Supabase
Ansible
AWS CDK
AWS Lambda
Azure Functions
AWS SAM
Serverless FrameworkAzure
S3
CloudFront
CloudWatch
EC2
SSM
GitHub Actions
Woodpecker CI
Web Scrapingn8n
MCP
Crafting Scalable Solutions with Passion
I'm a backend & platform engineer with a deep passion for building robust, scalable infrastructure. Currently, I'm working at Edusoft Consultants Ltd, where I design and maintain systems that power modern education platforms.
My expertise spans across Go, TypeScript, and cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. I specialize in microservices architecture, database optimization, and automation pipelines.
Beyond my professional work, I'm building Spendo AI a financial intelligence platform that brings institutional-grade insights to everyone.
IC6 Champion
UIU Innovation Hub Program · 2025 · Team Lead
Backend & Platform Engineer
Edusoft Consultants Ltd
Research Assistant
Institute for Advanced Research - IAR, UIU
“I have a strong passion for learning and staying abreast of new technologies.”
Press & speaker bios▾
Short — ~50 words
Azraf Al Monzim is a backend & platform engineer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He builds Go services and the Postgres/Redis infrastructure underneath them. He is currently at Edusoft Consultants Ltd, where he runs the platform behind United International University's section-selection and exam-routine systems.
Medium — ~100 words
Azraf Al Monzim is a backend & platform engineer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He builds Go services and the Postgres/Redis infrastructure that supports them, with a focus on systems that have to stay up under spiky real-world load. Currently at Edusoft Consultants Ltd, he runs the platform behind United International University's section-selection and exam-routine systems. Outside of his day job he is building Spendo AI — a personal-finance product that won the IC6 UIHP 2025 championship — and maintaining the open-source DumpStation Postgres backup manager.
Long — ~200 words
Azraf Al Monzim is a backend & platform engineer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with a focus on Go services and the Postgres/Redis infrastructure underneath them. He has been working professionally since August 2023, with stints at SoftNursery (SaaS back-end work in Go and Node.js) and now at Edusoft Consultants Ltd, where he owns the platform behind United International University's section-selection portal and exam-routine system — handling peak registration windows for the university's full student body. In parallel he runs a Research Assistant role at UIU's Institute for Advanced Research (IAR), focused on distributed systems and AI-augmented tooling. His side work centres on Spendo AI, an AI-powered personal-finance platform that won the IC6 UIHP 2025 championship and is currently in beta, and on DumpStation, an open-source PostgreSQL backup manager with multi-cloud storage support. He writes about backend engineering, distributed systems, and platform work at monzim.com — sometimes in the form of postmortems, sometimes as practical guides.
Featured work
Selected production systems with case studies — pick one to read the problem, the decision, and what shipped.
muxc | A single static Go binary that wrangles every Claude Code session running in tmux on one host
Lists, creates, attaches to, and kills the long-running Claude Code sessions I leave open in tmux. No daemon, no network, tmux as the source of truth.
DocPipe | Synchronous HTML-to-PDF service in Go, backed by a long-lived headless Chromium pool.
A production-ready single-binary PDF rendering service powering multiple projects. Built as a more reliable replacement for v1, which struggled with hangs under sustained load.
UIU EduQueue: Engineering a Self-Hosted Student Platform with Go, Asynq & Multi-Provider Email
A platform-engineering case study of UIU EduQueue — the self-hosted student platform that started as a 200-line script and grew into a production system with multi-provider email failover, an Asynq-driven PDF pipeline, OTP-protected admin tooling, append-only event analytics, and a Discord-integrated observability stack. Built on Go 1.24, Remix on Cloudflare Workers, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Cloudflare R2.
DumpStation: Self-Hosted PostgreSQL Backup Management System
A production-ready, self-hosted solution for managing PostgreSQL database backups. Automate your database backups with cloud storage integration (AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO), Discord notifications, cron-based scheduling, and a modern React dashboard. Deploy in minutes with Docker.
BreatheFree: Smoking & Vape Tracker
A supportive personal tracking app for monitoring and reducing cigarette and vape consumption with analytics, goal setting, and AI-powered coaching.
BD Quake Monitor: Real-Time Earthquake Tracking
Real-time earthquake monitoring for Bangladesh with USGS data, AI-powered analysis, and multi-channel alerts.
Friniemy: Where Real Friendships Begin
A privacy-first social media platform that blends friendships with playful rivalries. Features crush matching, aura-based rankings, anonymous messages, and a dual-bucket media architecture that enforces privacy at the infrastructure level.
Spendo AI: Your Financial Co-Pilot
A dual-purpose financial intelligence platform designed for both individuals and businesses. Spendo AI delivers institutional-grade insights through a unified AI engine, helping users manage budgets, track expenses, and optimize investments—all from one place.
Recent articles
Notes on backend engineering, distributed systems, and the postmortems I'm willing to publish.
Counting views at the edge for a dollar a month without a single cookie
A deep dive into the privacy-first view counter behind my portfolio: a Cloudflare Workers KV hot path, a D1 read model, two cron jobs, and a salted hash that forgets you at midnight.
Read articlePostmortem: DocPipe v1 hung under load
A sanitised postmortem for the DocPipe v1 service hang — root cause, timeline, fix, and the soak test that prevents the failure mode from coming back. Google SRE Chapter 15 format.
From GitHub Actions to Self-Hosted CI/CD: My Woodpecker Migration Guide with Docker
A platform engineer's comprehensive guide to migrating from GitHub Actions to self-hosted Woodpecker CI with Docker Compose. Covers setup, pipeline configuration, security best practices, scaling strategies, and an honest cost comparison.
Building a Privacy-First Media Sharing System: The Friniemy Architecture
In building Friniemy, a modern social media platform, one of our biggest challenges was creating a media sharing system that truly respects user privacy while maintaining excellent performance. This is the story of how we architected a solution using a dual-bucket storage strategy.
Understanding IPFS: The InterPlanetary File System
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a groundbreaking protocol that redefines how we store and share files on the internet. It shifts from traditional centralized systems to a decentralized, peer-to-peer model. In this blog, we'll explore IPFS in depth.
GitHub Contributions
Building in public, contributing to the community
2,829
Contributions
241
Repositories
90 public
97
Followers
Let's Build Something Amazing
Have a project in mind or want to collaborate? I'd love to hear from you.
Available for new projects right now · 1 retainer slot open