# Golam Sorwar

> Golam Sorwar is a Tech Lead and Full Stack Engineer based in Dublin, Ireland. He leads engineering teams and builds dependable web, mobile, cloud, payment, and AI-enabled systems.

Golam has more than six years of production engineering experience spanning higher-education platforms, online travel, financial integrations, multi-tenant commerce, and cross-platform mobile applications. His work focuses on reducing operational risk, modernizing long-lived systems without disruptive rewrites, and creating architecture that teams can understand and own.

## Canonical Profile

- [Portfolio](https://golamsorwar.com/): Professional profile, selected systems, leadership approach, and career context.
- [Engineering Journal](https://golamsorwar.com/blog): Long-form field notes based on real production decisions.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/golam-sorwar-akib-2005b214a/): Professional experience and direct contact.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/golam-sorwar): Public code and technical projects.

## Current Role

- Tech Lead at SEDA College in Dublin, Ireland.
- Leads architecture, engineering delivery, code review, mentoring, and web/mobile collaboration.
- Open to relevant technical leadership and senior engineering opportunities.

## Core Expertise

- Technical leadership, engineering mentoring, software architecture, and product delivery.
- PHP, Laravel, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Vue.js, NestJS, Node.js, Flutter, and Dart.
- AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and pgvector.
- REST APIs, distributed queues, observability, idempotency, legacy modernization, and multi-tenant systems.
- Stripe, Revolut, TransferMate, NexPay, QuickBooks, and international payment reconciliation.
- Practical OpenAI and Google Gemini integrations, semantic retrieval, RAG, inquiry routing, and vision-assisted workflows.

## Selected Production Work

- Led a live modernization from Laravel 4.2 to Laravel 13 while admissions, billing, authentication, and student operations continued.
- Designed isolated messaging infrastructure processing approximately 1.5 million emails per month with scheduling, retry handling, and delivery telemetry.
- Integrated Stripe, Revolut, TransferMate, NexPay, and QuickBooks into an idempotent, auditable reconciliation workflow.
- Established API contracts supporting parallel delivery across responsive web applications and Flutter mobile clients.
- Previously engineered travel booking, notification, payment, and B2B systems at ShareTrip.

## Selected Writing

- [A Million Emails a Month Is an Operations Problem](https://golamsorwar.com/blog/million-emails-operations-problem)
- [The Feature Worked. The Work Did Not Get Smaller.](https://golamsorwar.com/blog/the-feature-worked-the-work-did-not-shrink)
- [Do Not Automate a Decision You Cannot Describe](https://golamsorwar.com/blog/do-not-automate-a-decision-you-cannot-describe)
- [The Decisions a Tech Lead Cannot Delegate](https://golamsorwar.com/blog/decisions-a-tech-lead-cannot-delegate)
- [A Migration the Business Can Survive](https://golamsorwar.com/blog/migration-the-business-can-survive)

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