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Saiful Islam

CTO & co-founder, devmonks

CTO & co-founder, devmonks

saiful@devmonks.co

Engineer first. Founder by choice. Based in Dhaka.

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CTO at devmonks, Dhaka. Previously lead engineer at Apexive, 2021–2026.

The person behind the work

Saiful Islam speaking on the AI agents panel at the Rajshahi AI Summit

Rajshahi AI Summit 2026

Bangladesh's first AI summit

Where it started

Customer support, buying and delivering orders, managing drivers, and the code: at JoldiApp every hat was mine.

Grew up near Bogura studied computer science at NSU, then co-founded JoldiApp and did every job in it. Joined Apexive remotely now building devmonks.

Professional experience

Eight years, five teams.

  1. 2018

    Xbit Studio

  2. 2019

    Dingi Technologies

    iOS releases, OS migrations

  3. 2020

    JoldiApp

    Co-founder, full stack & mobile

  4. 2021 – 2026

    Apexive

    Lead / Senior Software Engineer

  5. Since 2026

    devmonks

    Co-founder & CTO

Building software is one thing. Owning the work is another.

Saiful Islam

How I work

I think on paper, sketch systems in D2, keep notes in Bear, design in Claude Design, and write code in VS Code with Claude Code and Codex, running side by side in claude-garage, a tool I built for exactly that.

Along the way, the work has been noticed.

“I saw how he started to learn Flutter when it was released, did not give up in spite of a lack of resources, and built his own modules. Today he is one of the dependable Flutter developers in the industry.”
Showrin BaruaPrincipal Software Engineer at Enosis SolutionsWorked on the same team
  • OpenAI API Deployment Practitioner · 2026
  • OpenAI Technical Practitioner · 2026
  • devmonks, OpenAI Partner Network, Select tier · Active
  • Odoo LLM, largest contributor · 1,492 commits
  • Panel speaker, AI agents & workflow automation · 2026