Sr Full-Stack Engineer | AI Integration, TypeScript, WordPress & Drupal
I'm Md Shariful Islam, a senior full-stack engineer shipping production systems end to end — TypeScript and Next.js applications, WordPress, WooCommerce and Drupal platforms, and AI where it makes a product genuinely better.
Selected work
Marketplace platform · AI integration
A headless marketplace where readers book paid one-on-one video sessions with authors and experts — built on Next.js and a headless WordPress API, with OpenAI-assisted profile content, Stripe Connect payouts, and real-time messaging.
Property management · Drupal
Long-term technical ownership of a property management platform that I carried from Drupal 5 to Drupal 9 — listings with radius search, saved-search alerts, maintenance workflows, task and hour tracking, and admin reporting.
B2B portal · WooCommerce
A B2B partner portal for a German kitchen-planning service: partner registration and approval, protected project briefs and floor-plan uploads, WooCommerce ordering with Stripe, Cal.com bookings, invoices with German VAT, and GDPR tooling.
Multi-vendor e-commerce
A multi-vendor marketplace on WordPress, WooCommerce and Dokan Pro with vendor onboarding, customer ordering, payment integrations, cash-on-delivery controls, courier booking and tracking, and admin reporting.
Android · On-device machine learning
A personal R&D Android app that classifies plant leaf diseases fully on-device with a TensorFlow Lite MobileNetV2 model — built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with treatment guidance, a plant library, calculators and local history.
AI integration
Cloud generative AI
Within a headless Next.js and WordPress marketplace, the OpenAI API assists with generating author-profile and supporting content, so experts are not starting from a blank page.
On-device machine learning
An Android app that runs a MobileNetV2 image classifier through TensorFlow Lite directly on the phone, returning a likely disease and confidence score without a network connection.
AI calls live behind the application's own server-side boundary, with credentials kept out of the client and usage tied to real product actions.
Model output is treated as untrusted input: requested in a defined shape and validated against a schema before it reaches storage or the UI.
Timeouts, retries and clear fallbacks mean a slow or failed model response degrades a feature — it does not break the workflow around it.
AI is added where users already work — inside a CMS, an onboarding flow or a mobile screen — rather than as a separate tool to learn.
Send the minimum data needed, avoid exposing personal information unnecessarily, and prefer on-device inference when data should not leave the user's device.
Start from the problem — a cold-start profile, an offline diagnosis — and choose cloud generation, on-device ML or no AI at all accordingly.
Core capabilities
Adding AI to real products where it removes friction — connected to existing data and workflows, not bolted on as a demo.
Typed, maintainable frontends and APIs for products that need to be fast, searchable and dependable.
Custom platforms on mature CMS foundations — and the long-term care that keeps them secure and current.
The parts users never see: payments, scheduling, logistics, data handling and the glue between services.
Experience
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New York, USA
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MSc in Computer Science and Engineering
North South University · 2013
Thesis incomplete — degree not completed.
BSc in Computer Science
University of Madras · 2006
Client reviews
Shariful did a great job building and preparing the MVP website for NYP Kitchen Design. He implemented the partner portal, WooCommerce workflow, Stripe test setup, email/invoice logic, Cal.com integration and the final launch migration.
Communication was clear and reliable, and he handled detailed QA feedback professionally. He fixed issues quickly, explained the backend clearly, and supported the project all the way through launch.
I am very satisfied with the result and would be happy to work with him again for future development phases.
Oliver Schmitt
NYP Kitchen Design — B2B partner portal
Shariful was very clear in his communication and knew exactly what had to be done. He kept me updated every day and I didn't have to ask him for any updates. He also recorded videos to keep me posted. Highly suggest.
Benjamin Zaganjori
Avantura Digital doo
Let's talk
A platform to build, a legacy system to modernise, an integration that has to work, or AI to add to an existing product.
Start a project inquiryRemote senior full-stack positions where ownership, product judgement and breadth across the stack matter.
Talk about a rolePrefer email? kaitangroup@gmail.com