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Sumaia Aktar
Sumaia Aktar is a senior software engineer in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a contributor to the Laravel framework and to laravel/ai, Laravel's official AI SDK, and the co-founder and engineering lead of OnBordly, a multi-tenant HR SaaS.
I am a senior software engineer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with seven years of production experience in PHP, Laravel and Vue. Since 2025 I have contributed to Laravel itself: 60 pull requests merged into laravel/framework, including work credited in the Laravel 13 release, and 37 merged into laravel/ai, the framework's official AI SDK, where I hardened provider integrations across thirteen LLM vendors.
I co-founded OnBordly, a multi-tenant HR platform, and lead its engineering, taking it from an empty repository to eight shipped modules with tiered billing and feature flags. Before that I spent nearly five years at WPDeveloper on easy.jobs, an AI-powered recruitment SaaS, where I built the conversational AI Apply engine and integrated resume parsing and candidate scoring.
I build with AI, not just alongside it. I run a small fleet of self-hosted autonomous agents that turn GitHub issues into pull requests, review code, and brief me in Slack, and I publish open-source packages on Packagist and npm. I am open to senior backend, AI-engineering and product roles, working remotely from UTC+6.
At a glance
- Based in
- Dhaka, Bangladesh (UTC+6)
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer · Co-founder & engineering lead, OnBordly
- Experience
- Seven years in production, since February 2019
- Open source
- 97 pull requests merged into laravel/framework and laravel/ai
- Packages
- Four on Packagist, one on npm
- Education
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, 2018
- Languages
- English (professional), Bangla (native)
- Contact
- saktar50.cse@gmail.com
Timeline
- Feb 2026 – Present
- Co-founder & engineering lead · OnBordly, Remote · Dhaka
- May 2021 – Feb 2026
- Software Developer · WPDeveloper (easy.jobs), Dhaka
- Feb 2019 – May 2021
- Software Developer · Geeky Social Ltd., Dhaka
- 2013 – 2018
- BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Engineering, United International University
Works with
Backend PHP 8 · Laravel · Eloquent · Queues & Horizon · REST APIs · MySQL · Redis · PHPUnit / Pest · Laravel Dusk
Frontend Vue 3 · Inertia.js · JavaScript / TypeScript · React & Next.js · Tailwind CSS · Blade
AI laravel/ai · LLM provider integration & failover · Agent development · Prompt engineering · Self-hosted LLM infra · n8n automation
Platform Docker · NGINX · AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, SQS) · GCP · DigitalOcean / Hetzner · GitHub Actions · Zero-downtime deploys
Product Multi-tenancy · RBAC · Subscription billing (Cashier) · Feature flags (Pennant) · Stripe / PayPal / bKash / SSLCommerz