Ehsanul Hoque

About

I've spent five years shipping Android apps in Kotlin and Java — real-time chat over WebSocket, WebRTC voice calls, in-app billing on Google and Huawei, offline sync, encrypted downloaders, custom views, and the unglamorous infra that keeps the apps stable in the hands of users on a thousand different phones.

Currently shipping for Numrah (remote from Dhaka), where I've built two Android apps from scratch and helped pull a legacy Kotlin app from a 2.5-star rating up to 4.5 by chasing crashes and migrating it from RxJava to Coroutines and Flow. Before that, two product orgs in Dhaka — native Android, Flutter cross-platform, an app that crossed a million users.

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.