# Naimur Rahman Akash

> Naimur Rahman Akash (formal name Md Naimur Rahman Akash) is a full-stack software engineer and team lead based in Chattogram, Bangladesh, working at NZitech on an online travel agency (OTA) platform that handles more than 40,000 flight tickets a month. The work covers application architecture, development, databases, infrastructure, deployment and third-party supplier integrations.

- Core stack: Laravel, PHP, Vue.js 3, Inertia.js, Next.js, MySQL, Redis, REST APIs.
- Domain: travel technology — flight, hotel, eSIM, attraction, bus and train booking, payments, supplier APIs and booking webhooks.
- Also runs production: Linux servers, Nginx, Cloudflare, deployments, queues and scheduled jobs.
- Roles at NZitech: Software Engineer (Feb 2023 – Aug 2026), Technical Lead (Oct 2025 – Aug 2026), API Support Lead (Jul 2026 – present).
- Education: B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Port City International University, Chattogram (2017 – 2021).
- To get in touch, use the contact form on this site or LinkedIn.

- Role: Full-Stack Software Engineer & Team Lead
- Location: Chattogram, Bangladesh
- Availability: Working remotely
- Website: https://naimur.site
- Contact: https://naimur.site/contact
- Profiles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naimur-rahman-akash

## About

- [About](https://naimur.site/about.md): Full-stack software engineer and team lead, focused on travel technology.
- [Uses](https://naimur.site/uses.md): The stack and tools I work with every day.
- [Resume](https://naimur.site/resume.md): Full-Stack Software Engineer & Team Lead

## Projects

- [OTA Platform](https://naimur.site/projects/ota-platform.md): An online travel agency platform that handles more than 40,000 flight tickets a month, covering flights, hotels, eSIM, attractions, buses and trains.
- [Supplier Integrations](https://naimur.site/projects/supplier-integrations.md): Connecting one booking platform to many third-party travel suppliers, and keeping bookings correct when those suppliers are slow, fail or change their answers.
- [Production Infrastructure](https://naimur.site/projects/production-infrastructure.md): Running the full production environment of a travel platform: servers, deployments, queues, scheduled jobs and the troubleshooting that goes with them.

## Writing

- [Why Your Laravel API Is Slow: 9 Performance Problems You Should Check First](https://naimur.site/blog/why-your-laravel-api-is-slow.md): A practical guide to finding and fixing slow Laravel APIs, from database queries and N+1 problems to external APIs, serialization, caching, queues, and application architecture.
- [How to Build a Resilient Travel API Aggregator with Laravel](https://naimur.site/blog/how-to-build-a-resilient-travel-api-aggregator-with-laravel.md): Building a travel API aggregator requires more than connecting multiple suppliers. Learn how to handle timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, concurrent requests, and graceful degradation with Laravel.

## Side Projects

- [Ghurifiri](https://naimur.site/experiments/ghurifiri.md): A travel guide to Bangladesh in Bangla and English, which began in 2022 as my travel blog. It lists more than 800 places to visit across all eight divisions, with a map, rankings, reviews, a calendar of fairs and festivals, and an AI trip planner that drafts a route and budget.
- [Doctor Bangladesh](https://naimur.site/experiments/doctor-bangladesh.md): A directory of specialist doctors and hospitals in Bangladesh. Each profile gives the degrees, BMDC registration number, chamber address, visiting hours and fee, with patient reviews. People search by doctor, speciality, symptom, hospital or city, and there are health calculators in Bangla.
- [Stolen](https://naimur.site/experiments/stolen.md): The online shop of Stolen, a clothing brand with outlets in Chattogram: T-shirts, drop-shoulders, pants, caps and backpacks. Shoppers browse by category, use quick shop and a wishlist, pick up combo offers and track their orders.
- [Villa De Fragrance](https://naimur.site/experiments/villa-de-fragrance.md): A perfume shop for Bangladesh: fragrances for men and women, ready-made combos and build-your-own combos, with flash sales, offers and order tracking. It runs on the same storefront as Stolen, with its own theme and catalogue.
- [Luxora BD](https://naimur.site/experiments/luxora-bd.md): A second perfume brand on the same storefront, restyled for it: weekly bestsellers, combo sets, custom combos and free-delivery offers.
- [Stolen POS](https://naimur.site/experiments/stolen-pos.md): The point-of-sale system for Stolen. It is for staff only, so the link opens its sign-in page.
- [E-commerce Platform](https://naimur.site/experiments/e-commerce-platform.md): A fully functional online shop in Laravel: customers browse products, add them to a cart, complete orders and manage their accounts.
- [Online Learning Platform](https://naimur.site/experiments/online-learning-platform.md): A learning platform in Laravel: instructors upload courses, and students enrol, watch videos, take quizzes and track their progress.

## Optional

- [Everything in one file](https://naimur.site/llms-full.txt): Full text of the pages, projects and posts above
- [Journey](https://naimur.site/journey): From a classroom in Chattogram to leading a team in travel technology.
- [Resources](https://naimur.site/resources): Documentation for the tools I use every day.
- [RSS feed](https://naimur.site/feed.xml): New posts as they are published
- [Sitemap](https://naimur.site/sitemap.xml): Every public URL