Mahdi Mohammad Shibli
@mahdimohammadshibli
Backend engineer focused on secure-by-default payments and distributed systems.
What I'm looking for
For 3+ years, I’ve worked inside the payment stack in Bangladesh, designing APIs, data models, and system architecture for regulated, high-volume infrastructure where correctness, uptime, and compliance aren’t optional. I translate VISA, Mastercard, and Bangladesh Bank mandates into working systems, and I’ve owned end-to-end technical relationships from API handshake to go-live for merchant onboarding and integration.
I bring a security mindset rooted in real trust-boundary failures: when features get bolted on without thinking them through, systems break. My core stack spans Django, DRF, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Nginx, and Docker, and I build automation and reporting platforms that remove manual work. Alongside payments, I co-founded monitowl, a multi-tenant SaaS where I own tenant isolation, ABAC-based access control, CI/CD, and near-real-time ingestion—now I’m going deeper on security while finishing an MSc in Cybersecurity, with research in privacy-preserving machine learning.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Research at the intersection of data privacy and cloud-based machine learning.
- Investigating privacy-preserving techniques for high-dimensional data in cloud ML pipelines
- Designing manifold-learning-based differential privacy mechanisms, using the geometric structure of data to make privacy guarantees more efficient
- Working toward practical, scalable solutions that balance utility and priva
Co-leading a multi-tenant SaaS that gives manufacturers and operations teams real-time supply-chain visibility. I own the technical architecture.
- Designed the core platform: multi-tenancy isolation, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and a data ingestion layer that processes QR-scan events, shipment signals, and location updates in near real-time
- Built policy-driven access control on ABAC, enabling
On the Design & Solutions team, the technical architecture center for one of Bangladesh's largest Mobile Financial Services platforms.
- Designed high-level API flows and system architecture for Digital Banking and MFS products, turning complex business and compliance requirements into scalable blueprints
- Ran feasibility analysis and architecture assessments for new product initiatives across t
Owned in-house automation and payment-acquiring delivery within the cards and payments function.
- Built an internal web platform to automate recurring report delivery, custom report generation, dashboards, and monitoring alerts, cutting ~200 manual hours a month (Django, Pandas, Chart.js; connects to MySQL, Oracle, and MS SQL Server)
- Led a small group of developers delivering in-house automati
Backend and integration work on BRAC Bank's proprietary payment gateway.
- Built REST API integration packages for smooth merchant onboarding to the payment gateway
- Played a key role in the 3DS2 migration project
- Analyzed transaction data and resolved payment-switch issues, building monitoring to flag anomalies
Backend and blockchain development on a token platform.
- Built backend services and an ERC-20 smart contract for the M-Base token, with test coverage for API endpoints and internal services
- Wrote custom data pipelines to store and analyze blockchain transaction data
Built a crypto payment gateway for a German client.
- Developed the gateway backend with custom authentication, authorization, and API encryption (Django REST, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Nginx)
- Wrote data pipelines pulling and processing transactions from the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences
Master of Science, Cybersecurity
2026 - 2027
Year two mobility of EMJM - CyberMACS
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje / Универзитет „Св. Кирил и Методиј“ во Скопје
Erasmus+ BIP, CyberFuture - Cybersecurity
2026 - 2026
This is an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (1 month long training). During the program we engaged in simulations and practical learning.
* Vulnerability testing and prioritizing flaws under pressure.
* Advanced Cryptography & AI: Lattice-based schemes, machine learning over encrypted data, and the intersection of AI with threat landscapes (RAG and prompt engineering).
* System & Hardware Secu
Kadir Has University
Master of Science, Cybersecurity
2025 - 2026
Year one mobility of EMJM–CyberMACS with coursework in system security and applied cryptography.
Kadir Has University
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity
2025 - 2026
Year one mobility of EMJM - CyberMACS
* System Security & Penetration Testing.
* Operating System.
* Application of Time Series Analysis in Cybersecurity.
* Applied Cryptography.
North South University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering
2017 - 2021
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from North South University (2017–2021).
North South University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering
2017 - 2021
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