Open to work · Full-stack developer, also known as Light Yagami

Frontend first. Backend when it's needed.

I mostly write React, Next.js and TypeScript, with Node behind it when a feature needs a server. I've been at ThemeXpert since 2022, first on Quix Page Builder and now on ThriveDesk, where I build the frontend of its AI live chat.

Portrait of Rakib Hossain Raju

What I work with

Frontend

Where I spend most of my time: React Server Components, how Next.js renders and caches, and keeping state easy to follow.

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • TanStack Query
  • React Hook Form
  • Zod
  • Redux
  • Tailwind CSS
  • styled-components

Also: Angular 21 with signals, PrimeNG and Zard UI, and Svelte

Backend

APIs, auth and databases for the features that need them. I'm learning NestJS by moving Habit Lens onto it.

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • NestJS
  • Auth.js
  • MongoDB
  • Postgres
  • Firebase
  • Sanity
  • Sentry

Also: Morgan for logging, and some PHP with Symfony

Shipping

Tests, builds and deploys, including the pipeline that ships Assistant to S3 from GitHub Actions.

  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • Jest
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • S3
  • Vercel
  • Netlify
  • Hostinger

Experience

ThemeXpert, since March 2022

One company with two products: Quix, a page builder for Joomla, and ThriveDesk, helpdesk software. I've worked on both.

  1. 2023 to now

    ThriveDesk app

    The main helpdesk: email, live chat and an AI agent in one inbox.

    I work on the frontend of the main ThriveDesk app, which is written in Angular. It's the screen support agents spend their day in: the inbox, conversations, teammates and labels.

    Built with Angular, TypeScript

    thrivedesk.com

    ThriveDesk app screenshot
  2. 2023 to now

    Assistant, the ThriveDesk live chat

    The AI live chat that sits on a customer's website.

    A visitor can ask a question, search the help docs or email the team. The AI assistant answers from the company's own content, so what it says matches what the company has actually written.

    It also lets customers shop without leaving the chat: they browse a store's collections, add products to the cart and check out right there. I build the widget's React frontend, next to the Angular app.

    Built with React

    Live chat

    Assistant, the ThriveDesk live chat screenshot
  3. Jun 2022 to mid 2023

    Quix Page Builder

    The drag-and-drop page builder for Joomla, with 200+ draggable components.

    Dragging one block was re-rendering the whole page. React Context sends every change to every component that reads it, and our data was a nested tree, so one move touched everything.

    I moved the state to Redux and stored it as a flat list of items instead of a tree. Each component now listens only to its own piece. Drags update the screen first and roll back if the save fails. The bundle ended up 40% smaller.

    Built with React, Redux, TypeScript

    Quix at ThemeXpert

    Quix Page Builder screenshot
  4. Mar 2022 to Jun 2022

    Intern

    Joined ThemeXpert on 1 March 2022.

    Three months later I was made permanent and moved onto Quix.

Also built at ThemeXpert

  • WordPress tools

    A set of tools for the company's own use. They're private, so there's nothing to link.

  • A Shopify app

    Built for the company alongside the main products.

Projects

Client project

Exact Digital

Web hosting, VPS and domains on AMD EPYC servers.

The website for a hosting company: plans and prices, live domain search and ordering. Built in Next.js.

Built with Next.js, TypeScript

exact.gg

Exact Digital screenshot

Personal project, in progress

Habit Lens

A habit tracker where you log entries with your own fields and see what they add up to.

Sign-up with email verification, daily logs with custom fields, and an insights view over time. The auth and API layers have unit and feature tests.

I'm adding an AI-written weekly summary of your logs next, streamed into the page as it's generated.

Built with Next.js, NestJS, TypeScript, Prisma, Postgres, Auth.js

Outside work

Rust, to see what sits underneath.

I'm not looking for Rust work. I write it to understand what React and Node are built on: how a request gets parsed, how a shell starts a program, who owns a piece of memory. It makes me quicker to find the real cause of a bug instead of blaming the framework.

  • A shell that parses commands, runs programs and has its own built-ins and line editing.

  • HTTP/1.1 over plain TCP: a hand-written request parser, a static file server, and protection against path traversal.

  • Rust compiled to WebAssembly runs the game logic, and TypeScript draws it on a canvas.

  • A task board in Dioxus with columns, priorities and search, built on signals. It runs on the web and the desktop, and I'm extending it to explore native apps.

Contact

I'm looking for my next frontend or full-stack role.

Email is the quickest way to reach me. I'm in Bangladesh and happy to work remotely.

Email
rakibhossainraju.dev@gmail.com
Phone
+880 1946349096
GitHub
github.com/rakibhossainraju

About

I like the whole stack, and I live in the frontend.

Most of my time goes into state, rendering and what the browser is actually doing. I write the backend when a feature needs one, and I'll dig into the build config when it's slow.

On the side I write Rust to learn how things work underneath. So far that's a shell, an HTTP server and a few small apps. They're listed below.

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