Careers are built by systems, not motivation.
Started programming at 15.
10+ years across software engineering, project management, and strategic leadership. Contributing to 150+ tech job placements every month, 6,300+ overall, Alhamdulillah.

Abdur Rakib is the Chief Operating Officer of Programming Hero and Phitron, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He leads operations, hiring and job placement for developers. His team has helped 6,500+ developers land tech jobs across 57 countries, with 150+ new placements every month.
As of Oct 2026
AI raised the bar for junior developers. Motivation doesn't clear it. Systems do.
AI raised the bar for junior developers. Motivation doesn't clear it. Systems do.
What carried me as a teenager wasn't enthusiasm. It was a few rules I could follow on a bad day: write code before checking messages, finish the exercise, ship something every week.
The same idea now runs at scale. We build an environment where discipline is easier to repeat than avoidance. The goal for 2030: 10,000 placements a year, In Sha' Allah.
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8+ years, still running
Miles to go before I sleep, amidst my endless love for slumber.
- 6,500+ developers placed in jobs across 57 countries
- 150+ new placements every month
- 1,400+ junior developers trained every year
- 1,033+ ranked coders on Codeforces and CodeChef through Phitron
- Team grown to 130+ people
- Built OKR rhythms and a servant-leadership culture
- Led growth and business strategy from inception
- Scaled the team from 13 to 92 in three years
- Grew registered users to 75,507+ and paid users to 24,150+
- Helped 2,500+ students land their first job
- Launched Phitron, expanding into computer science fundamentals
- Hired and mentored six managers to lead cross-functional teams
- Rebuilt HR, hiring and onboarding for rapid growth
- 350+ projects delivered for clients in 20+ countries
- 4.9★ rating across Fiverr and Upwork
- Scaling the team from 15 to 100
- Building the global software development wing
- Worked directly with the COO on international growth in Dubai (UAE) and Japan
- Supported UAE market entry strategy and operational setup
- Analyzed financial performance, pipeline and positioning
- Ran structured reporting and executive decision flow
- Delivered projects at a 24% profit margin
- ACI Fosholi — agritech app with 70K+ active users
- Esho Shikhi — 33K users in its first 3 months
- Led teams of 2–12 developers across concurrent projects
- Built automation systems and enterprise POCs
- Developed data extraction and processing tools
- Built the foundation in systems thinking and delivery discipline
- Managed the MetLife digital customer portal and eKYC
- Shipped the bKash payment integration
- Controlled budgets, timelines and multi-country coordination
- Kept delivery accountable across all stakeholders
- Ran the Bondhu fintech product
- Cut mobile top-up failures from 7–8% to under 1%
- Shipped eKYC for trust and fraud prevention
- 17% GMV growth during COVID-19
From people I’ve worked with
“Rakib is always pumped to take challenges with minimum or no guidelines. He puts significant effort to understand each and everyone’s personality of his team. I found him strategic and hard-working to dissect technical challenges then match them with each team members’ skills and personality. He has many more secrets (I asked him to teach me all of his secrets. He smiled) to balance the team dynamics and project goals. I wish him success.”JMJhankar MahbubChief Executive Officer @ Programming Hero | Developer | Education Entrepreneur | Workforce Transformation in the AI Era, Programming Hero
“Rakib is a completely hands on professional with an astounding sense of ownership. I have seen him an extremely hardworker who is continuously hunger to improve his own work and equally good at buil ding a very good rapport with anyone in very short period of time. His passion and skills at this age , something which i have come to commend highly. It has always been joy working with Rakib.”FRFahim Razzaq IshraqProduct Manager at bKash Limited, Tech Innovations Ltd
“Rakib, a good leader, always tries to put some creativity to address the project challenges. Very energic and enthusiastic young blood, who loves to take challenges and make people happy. He has very good client communication skills, besides he can also organize and motivate the team that make the ultimate success. After assigning a project, you can easily keep trust on him, he will try his best to bring the success.”JAJahangir AlamSoftware Architect | Java Developer | CMMI EPG Member, Global Dev Talent
“Rakib Bhai is wonderful to work with and has exceptional expertise in leadership, coaching, and motivation. He is so friendly and so helpful. He is a very good team player and hardworking person, I wish him good luck”NSNawaz SharifLead Software Engineer at Brain Station 23 Limited | Laravel & Moodle Expert, CloudScale Systems
“An amazing and inspiring person to work with Abdur Rakib. Marvelous professional of both technical and business minds. His professionalism, leadership, and ability to adapt to highly dynamic situations have helped to ensure that these projects go smoothly.”HHHM Hafiz IbrahimCRO & Product UX Strategist | Helped a 7-Figure Ecom Brand Lift Revenue 35% | Finding Friction, Fixing Conversion Flows & Raising AOV | Threecolts, Fjällbris, Synspective, Fortune 100s, NextGen Ventures
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