Riajul Islam Home
— About Me

Hey, I'm
Riajul.

I'm a full-stack & Shopify developer based in Dhaka, building web and mobile products for teams and founders worldwide. I care about the gap between code that runs and software that feels good to use — and closing it.

With 1–2 years building production apps on Next.js, the MERN stack, React Native and Shopify, I'm now open to a full-time role and a few freelance projects. I like owning features end to end and shipping things that actually go live.

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— Outside the code

The stuff that makes the work better.

Long reading sessions, football, gaming with friends, and tinkering with side projects nobody asked for. They're not breaks from building — they're where the curiosity comes from. Most of what I bring to a codebase is just being interested in how things work and refusing to leave them half-done.

— Me as a developer

4 things that make me me.

I read the docs, then the source

When something breaks, I'd rather understand why than paste a fix. It makes the next bug faster to solve.

My best work happens late

The world goes quiet, notifications stop, and the hard problems finally hold still long enough to solve.

I ship, then refine

Perfect-but-unshipped helps nobody. I get a working version out, then make it better with real feedback.

My GitHub is a graveyard of ideas

Dozens of half-built repos and experiments. Every so often two of them collide and become something real.

— How I Work

I don't ship generic.

Five principles that decide what makes it into the codebase — and what gets refactored out.

Ships Relentlessly

01/5

Working software beats perfect plans. I deliver in small, reviewable increments and keep main always deployable.

Performance First

02/5

Green Core Web Vitals aren't optional. I budget for speed from the first commit, not as a cleanup task.

Pixel-Faithful

03/5

I build exactly what the design says — spacing, states and motion included. Handoff shouldn't lose detail.

Full-Stack Fluent

04/5

Comfortable from a MongoDB schema to a CSS transition. I can own a feature end to end without handoffs.

Quietly Obsessed

05/5

The empty state, the loading skeleton, the keyboard shortcut nobody asked for — the small things are usually what make a product feel finished. I sweat them.

— What I build

The full range.

Shopify is where most of my work lands lately, but I build across the stack. Most projects blend two or three.

01Shopify Development+

Custom themes, Liquid, and headless storefronts on Hydrogen. Conversion-focused stores that load fast and convert better.

02Web Apps — Next.js / React+

Full-stack web apps, dashboards and marketing sites built on Next.js and React — SSR, SEO and accessibility included.

03Mobile Apps — React Native+

Cross-platform iOS & Android apps from one React Native codebase — native feel, offline support, app-store ready.

04Full-Stack & APIs — MERN+

Node/Express REST APIs, MongoDB data modelling, auth and third-party integrations — the engine behind the UI.

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