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About Nazmul Ahasan: Platform & AI Engineering Leader for Fintech

I'm a platform engineering leader for fintech trading platforms (CFD, forex and brokerage) with 8+ years of experience across HealthTech and FinTech.

I started as a system administrator running HIPAA-compliant EHR infrastructure, moved into senior DevOps work modernising infrastructure for international clients, and now lead platform engineering at NEXT Ventures. There I work across both entities, FundedNext and FNmarkets, report to the CTO, and run three teams: DevSecOps, SRE (including MT4/MT5 trading infrastructure) and Database Reliability Engineering. The platform runs multi-cloud on AWS, GCP and Azure.

Results at NEXT Ventures

  • 65% lower cloud costs at FundedNext.
  • 99.99% uptime across FundedNext and FNmarkets.
  • Deploy time cut from 40 to 10 minutes.
  • 5x deployment frequency and 40% better release reliability through GitOps and infrastructure as code.
  • 30% lower latency through observability work.

Career timeline

  • Oct 2024 – present: Senior Engineering Manager (Platform Engineering), NEXT Ventures (FundedNext, FNmarkets)
  • 2022 – 2024: Senior DevOps Engineer, Brain Station 23. Modernised infrastructure for 5+ international clients and migrated a monolith to microservices; cut deployment failures by 30% and deployment time by 75%.
  • 2018 – 2022: System Administrator II, Therap Services LLC. Ran HIPAA-compliant EHR infrastructure across 200+ servers at 99.99% uptime; cut RTO/RPO by 50%.
  • 2018: B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, AUST

Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA): in progress
  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

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