About the Author

Mizanur Rahman is a technology enthusiast and problem solver from Dhaka, Bangladesh, who loves web and mobile application development. Over the years, he has been working with PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symfony, JavaScript, C, C++, Java, Node.js, Socket.io, and React.js. He is a Zend Certified PHP 5 programmer with 14 years of experience. He is also a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and the first Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) from ScrumAlliance in Bangladesh. He is also a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Developer (CSD), and SAFe Agilist (SA).
He got a degree in computer science from the North South University, Bangladesh, in 2003. He is currently working as the head of software development at Telenor Health AS. He has two start-ups of his own, Informatix Technologies and TechMasters. He previously worked for companies such as TrustPilot, Denmark, and Somewherein Inc along with Relisource technologies and TigerIT from Bangladesh
He has been involved in different technology communities from Bangladesh for over 10 years. He is the administrator for PHPXperts, the largest PHP-based group in the south-east Asia with more than 25,000 members. He is also involved in Agile and Scrum movement in Bangladesh. He is the founder and the administrator of the Agile Bangladesh community. He is also a problem solver for Project Euler.
He has published two books: MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide and MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide, both by Packt Publishing. He is a regular speaker at various development conferences, technology seminars, and agile events in Bangladesh and Asia.
He lives in Dhaka with his lovely wife, Nisha, and two cute sons, Adiyan and Mikhael. When he is not working, he spends his time with his family and travel around the world. You can reach him at mizan@informatixbd.com, or follow his personal blog.