Atiqul Islam
Principal Architect — Cloud & AI Platforms
services@atiqulislam.dev Irving, Texas, USA linkedin.com/in/mdatiqulislam github.com/imatiqul atiqulislam.dev
U.S. Permanent Resident (Green Card holder) — no visa sponsorship required.
Summary
Principal Architect for Cloud & AI Platforms with 19 years building and scaling enterprise systems on Azure and .NET across healthcare, fleet & transportation, trade finance, manufacturing, education, and government. Co-own the architecture of a platform serving 300+ enterprise fleet clients and ~1M transactions per day at 99.95% uptime, and serve on a cross-org Architecture Committee. Deep in agentic AI (Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry models, Semantic Kernel) including real-time data pipelines, micro-frontends (Module Federation), GraphQL platform consolidation, and cloud-native .NET. Founder of HealthQCopilot, an open-source agentic AI healthcare platform.
Core Skills
- AI & Agentic
- Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry models, real-time agentic pipelines, Semantic Kernel, multi-agent orchestration, machine learning, RAG (Qdrant), FHIR-grounded hallucination guards, Phi-4-Medical, Claude, GitHub Copilot
- Cloud & Infra
- Azure (AKS, Functions, Container Apps, APIM, Front Door, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Cosmos DB, Key Vault), Terraform, Bicep, Docker, Kubernetes, Dapr, KEDA
- Backend
- C# / .NET 10, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, GraphQL (HotChocolate), REST, gRPC, RabbitMQ, MediatR, OAuth2 / OIDC, Duende IdentityServer, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB
- Frontend
- React, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular, Webpack 5 Module Federation, Redux / Saga, PWA, WCAG 2.1, design-system packages
- Security & Compliance
- Zero Trust, IAM, WAF, Azure Policy, Defender, field-level authorization, SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR
- Architecture & Observability
- Microservices, event-driven, CQRS, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), hexagonal / onion, API-first, high availability, OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic
Experience
Enterprise Solutions Architect / Technical Lead Level I — Holman · Remarketing Solutions
Jan 2025 — Present · Remote (Mount Laurel, NJ)Senior member of the cross-org Architecture Committee for the Remarketing Solutions, Supply Chain, and Fleet & Maintenance Engineering organization. Co-own multi-year platform strategy for systems powering 300+ enterprise fleet clients and ~1M transactions per day at 99.95% uptime on Azure Container Apps, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, and Azure APIM.
- Architected a real-time vehicle import pipeline with agentic AI on Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry models — Event Hubs streaming ingest with agents that automate data extraction, validation, and enrichment at scale.
- Consolidated 150+ REST endpoints into a unified GraphQL gateway on .NET 10 behind Azure APIM with OAuth2 and field-level authorization.
- Lead 6 Solutions Architects and 65+ engineers through cloud-native and agentic AI modernization programs, aligning executive stakeholders on multi-year platform roadmap and investment.
- Drove FinOps right-sizing and IaC adoption — 25% infrastructure cost reduction, 70% faster deployments, 80% lower rollback rates.
Software Engineer III — Holman
Jan 2024 — Jan 2025 · RemoteDelivered Azure solutions for 100+ fleet clients on IaaS with ARM/Bicep, TeamCity, and Octopus Deploy automation that cut deployment time. Pioneered Dapr adoption for cloud-native vehicle remarketing across North America. Mentored junior engineers across the .NET, Azure, and JavaScript stacks.
Software Engineer II — Holman
Jan 2021 — Jan 2024 · RemoteLed architecture and delivery of API-based services for ARI Vehicle Remarketing on .NET 6, Dapr, and Azure Container Apps. Built micro-frontend React platforms via Webpack 5 Module Federation for mobile and desktop, on an Onion/microservices architecture.
Software Engineer — Object Data Inc.
Mar 2018 — Jan 2021 · Freehold, NJArchitected API services for ARI Vehicle Remarketing — offers, vehicle sales, and 3rd-party integrations on .NET Core, EF Core, IdentityServer4, and Oracle. Built React/Redux and Angular 11 client apps (Module Federation), a SignalR/Hangfire tracking platform, and an Electron-based proctoring application.
Software Development Team Lead — Bit Mascot
Apr 2017 — Mar 2018 · Dhaka, BangladeshSolutions architect and technical lead managing multiple teams across mobile, web, and API services for delivery, trading, and photography products. Architected cloud API services on .NET Core, CQRS, RabbitMQ, and microservices with Onion architecture.
Senior Software Engineer — EA-Link System Sdn Bhd
Jun 2016 — Apr 2017 · Cyberjaya, MalaysiaTechnical lead for a cloud-based SaaS tax-automation platform integrated with Malaysia's tax authority (LHDN), serving UEM Group, Tan Chong, Boustead, and tax agents nationwide. Built on C#, ASP.NET, CQRS, and microservices over Azure cloud web roles.
Team Lead — Enosis Solutions
May 2015 — May 2016 · Dhaka, BangladeshLed architecture for offline-capable mobile and responsive web applications (AngularJS, Ionic, PhoneGap, ASP.NET MVC) and product localization frameworks. Drove R&D, tooling decisions, and team mentoring.
Development Lead — Enosis Solutions
Oct 2011 — Apr 2015 · Dhaka, BangladeshArchitected responsive and offline-supported web/mobile applications (ASP.NET MVC, Knockout.js, PhoneGap, Snap.svg) and localization frameworks. Led and mentored delivery teams across versatile technology stacks.
Senior System Analyst — AIUB & HIMS Technologies
Mar 2010 — Sep 2011 · Dhaka, BangladeshTechnical project manager and architect for access-control, document-management, and code-generation (VOOT) products in .NET. Designed distributed integrations, WCF/WPF self-hosting services, and the online reservation engine for Sayyar Online (60,000+ customers, 1M+ contracts).
Software Engineer — Periscope Technology Solutions
Apr 2009 — Feb 2010 · Dhaka, BangladeshBuilt Outlook/Office client software (VSTO, WCF) and WPF/ASP.NET media tools. Implemented n-tier architecture with custom localization, logging, exception-handling, and security layers in C#.
Senior Software Engineer — Information Engineers & Consultants BD
Sep 2006 — Apr 2009 · Dhaka, BangladeshArchitected .NET web-service/SOAP integrations and a database-driven application framework. Led FAST (Field Force Automation & Sales Tracking) — J2ME mobile clients with ASP.NET sync services for domestic and international pharma and FMCG clients.
Selected Ventures
HealthQCopilot — Founder & Architect (2025 – Present) Open-source (MIT) agentic AI healthcare platform on .NET 10 and Semantic Kernel: an ambient scribe and five specialised agents (triage, clinical coding, prior-auth, care-gap, hallucination guard) reason over a patient's FHIR record, verified before reaching the EHR. Azure Health Data Services (FHIR R4), AKS, Helm, ArgoCD, Dapr, Qdrant RAG; designed for HIPAA / SOC 2 / HITRUST alignment.
Bangla LLM — Independent Researcher (2024 – Present) Open research building Bangla-language LLMs for social impact — migrant-worker protection and education access — with openly released corpora, evals, and weights.
Education
B.Sc. in Computer Science — American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) Summa Cum Laude
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) — in progress
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Publications
Automated System to Detect Textile DefectsAmerican Journal of Science & Engineering · Aug 2006
A Suitable Neural Network to Detect Textile DefectsICONIP 2006 · Hong Kong
Automated Textile Defect Recognition System using Computer Vision & ANNEnformatika 2006 · Budapest