Ehsanul Hoque

About

Hello — I'm a software engineer in Dhaka, and I mostly build the things that live on your phone. For the last five+ years that's mostly meant Kotlin: Android apps people actually use, a cross-platform chat SDK in Kotlin Multiplatform with shared Compose UI, and the quiet plumbing that holds it all together. Real-time chat, voice calls, billing, offline sync — the stuff that has to keep working on a thousand different phones, including the cheap ones.

These days I'm with Numrah, remote from Dhaka, where I got to build that chat SDK from scratch and watch a few apps grow on top of it. I'm just as fond of the unglamorous wins — like nursing a legacy app from a 2.5-star rating back up to 4.5, one crash at a time. Before Numrah I spent a few years at two product teams here in Dhaka, one of which shipped an app that crossed a million people.

I like the boring half of the work: the WebSocket reconnect that survives a dropped connection, the encrypted downloader that streams chunks without spiking RAM on a budget phone, the Gradle plugin you can delete to cut build times in half, the Python script that automates the release. I write here occasionally about what I learn — the notes are mostly for future me, but you're welcome to read them.

Off-keyboard: long walks across Dhaka, slow coffee, and the occasional half-finished side project that taught me something useful before it died.