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Akmal Hossain

Director of Engineering

Engineering leader with 5+ years of experience building commerce, AI and real-time products end to end. Currently Director of Engineering at Authentic Brands Group, leading a team of 8 across consumer-facing and internal platforms for a global portfolio of brands.

Experience

Authentic Brands Group

Contract · New York, USA / Remote

Director of Engineering

Leading a team of 8 engineersAug 2026 — Present
  • Lead a team of 8 engineers delivering both consumer-facing and internal platforms across Authentic’s portfolio of global brands.
  • Own technical direction, architecture review and delivery planning across concurrent product lines, while growing and mentoring the engineering team.

Senior Software Engineer

May 2024 — Aug 2026
  • Developed and maintained Authentic Membership, the subscription program that unifies Authentic’s brand portfolio behind one membership, delivering 10% off and free shipping across participating storefronts via Shop Pay subscriptions.
  • Co-built the migration platform that moved Reebok and Champion order and customer data onto Shopify at enterprise scale with zero downtime, part of Authentic’s wider replatforming of its brand portfolio.
  • Led development of Authentic Intelligence, the internal enterprise AI platform, from initial concept to company-wide adoption.

Bevy Commerce

Shopify Premier Partner, previously Aiva LabsFull-time · Toronto, Canada / Remote

Senior Software Engineer

Technical lead across multiple concurrent projectsMay 2023 — Nov 2024
  • Led the development and launch of Authentic Membership in partnership with Shopify and Authentic Brands Group, taking a cross-portfolio subscription product from architecture to production.
  • Oversaw several concurrent engineering workstreams as technical lead, setting direction and mentoring engineers across client projects.

Fullstack Developer

Mar 2022 — May 2023
  • Solo built and shipped Bevy Giveaways, a public Shopify App Store application, owning architecture, implementation and launch end to end.
  • Hired by Shopify to build Shopify Bill Pay, their embedded business payments product powered by Melio, which saves merchants roughly 16 hours a month on paying business bills.

Skills

Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, SQL
Frameworks
React, Next.js, Remix, Hydrogen, React Native, Vue, Svelte, Node.js, Express, GraphQL, Prisma, TailwindCSS
AI
OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Vertex AI, Perplexity, LangChain, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, MCP, RAG, FAL, Kling, Agentic workflows
Commerce
Shopify Plus, Shop Pay, Shopify Markets, Shopify Functions, Melio, Plaid
Infrastructure
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud, AWS, Firebase, PostgreSQL, Firestore, BigQuery, Redis, MongoDB

Education

East West University, Bangladesh

September 2019 — 2024

B.Sc in Computer Science & Engineering · CGPA 3.87 / 4.00

  • Admitted with a 1 year merit scholarship for previous academic results.
  • Awarded 100% merit scholarship for 2 consecutive years for academic performance.
  • 1st place in the 2019 and 2021 competitive programming contests.

Languages

  • English — Proficient
  • Bangla — Native