Atiqul Islam
Principal AI Architect | Enterprise AI Architect | LLM, RAG & Agentic Platforms (Azure)
services@atiqulislam.dev Irving, Texas, USA linkedin.com/in/mdatiqulislam github.com/imatiqul atiqulislam.dev
Authorized to work in the U.S. — no visa sponsorship required.
Summary
Enterprise AI / Principal Architect with 19 years building enterprise platforms — now hands-on end-to-end on production LLM systems: RAG, agentic workflows, evals, and AI governance on Azure. Designed and shipped the platform RAG framework powering 20+ production AI workflows at Holman (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search retrieval, custom .NET orchestration) and a real-time agentic asset-import pipeline — taken from PoC to production with C-Suite, InfoSec, DevOps, Cloud Services, and Platform Engineering. Every workflow ships through eval gates, content-safety and prompt-injection guardrails, and human-in-the-loop approvals — zero compliance incidents. Founder of HealthQCopilot, an open-source multi-agent clinical AI platform, and an independent Bangla LLM research initiative (since 2024).
Core Skills
- AI & LLM Systems
- Azure OpenAI (GPT models), Azure AI Foundry, RAG & retrieval engineering (Azure AI Search — hybrid, vector, semantic; Qdrant), prompt engineering, LLM evals (golden datasets, groundedness, regression gates), guardrails (Azure AI Content Safety, prompt-injection defense, PII redaction, human-in-the-loop), agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, Semantic Kernel, Phi-4-Medical, FHIR-grounded hallucination guards, fine-tuning & adapters, GitHub Copilot custom agents, Claude & GPT models, MCP tool integrations
- 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 I — Holman
Jan 2025 — Present · RemoteSenior member of the cross-org Architecture Committee spanning three engineering organizations. Own the AI platform track — RAG, agentic workflows, evals, and AI governance — and co-own multi-year platform strategy for systems powering 300+ enterprise clients and ~1M transactions per day at 99.95% uptime.
- Designed, architected, and implemented the platform RAG framework powering 20+ production AI workflows — Azure AI Search (hybrid + vector) retrieval grounded in SQL Managed Instance and Azure Storage, semantic caching on Azure Managed Redis, Azure OpenAI GPT and Azure AI Foundry models, custom .NET orchestration on Container Apps and Azure Functions with Event Grid, APIM + Front Door under Zero-Trust/WAF.
- Architected a real-time asset import pipeline with agentic AI — Event Hubs streaming ingest with agents automating data extraction, validation, and enrichment; low-confidence records route to human review.
- Built the LLM eval and release discipline — golden datasets, groundedness/citation checks, pre-rollout regression runs, Azure AI Content Safety, prompt-injection defense, PII redaction, human-in-the-loop approvals; zero compliance incidents.
- Standardized AI-assisted engineering across 65+ engineers — GitHub Copilot custom agents (GPT and Claude models) for planning, implementation, code review, bug fixing, and test generation.
- Consolidated 150+ REST endpoints into a unified GraphQL gateway on .NET 10 behind Azure APIM with OAuth2 and field-level authorization.
- 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+ enterprise clients on IaaS with ARM/Bicep, TeamCity, and Octopus Deploy automation that cut deployment time. Pioneered Dapr adoption for cloud-native marketplace services 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 an enterprise B2B marketplace platform 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.
Senior Software Developer — Object Data Inc
Mar 2018 — Jan 2021 · Freehold, NJArchitected API services for an enterprise B2B marketplace platform — offers, asset 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 — American International University-Bangladesh (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 Limited
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#.
Software Consultant — TalentPlus Software Solutions Limited
Jun 2009 — Sep 2009 · Dhaka, BangladeshConcurrent consultancy engagement alongside the Periscope role above. Developed n-layer .NET web workflow systems — logging and data-access application blocks, ASP.NET Membership security, and Infragistics/AJAX presentation layer.
Senior Software Engineer — Information Engineers & Consultants BD Limited
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 (roughly 270 million speakers) 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) 2006 · 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