Utpal Barman, Lead Engineer at Brain Station 23, Dhaka

Utpal Barman

Lead Software Engineer at Brain Station 23

I lead 7 mobile engineers in Dhaka, building native and cross-platform iOS and Android apps for European and Japanese clients, after nearly 8 years in mobile engineering. I run my own engineering work on AI agents: planning, building and investigating issues are all automated.

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Experience

Work experience

  1. Brain Station 23 PLC

    • Lead Engineer I — Present
    • Runs engineering on agentic AI: custom Claude Code commands hand planning, implementation and issue investigation to AI agents.
    • Leads the mobile team in the Europe business unit, shipping apps for clients in Norway and Japan.
    • Sits on the recruitment board and supports pre-sales with solution design and proposals.

  2. Monstarlab Bangladesh

    • Senior Mobile Engineer I — · 1y 4m
    • Mobile Engineer II — · 2y 0m
    • Led the 3-person onboarding squad on a UAE bank's business banking app, on site in Dubai.
    • Built Flutter apps for clients in the Netherlands and the UAE: a social platform, a job search app and a streaming app.

  3. HeavyTask LLC

    • Software Engineer — · 2y 8m
    • Shipped 10+ Flutter apps to the App Store and Google Play, and built admin dashboards in ReactJS.
    • Moved a US dumpster rental company from paperwork to a mobile app and web dashboard.
Expertise

Mobile engineering leadership, powered by agentic AI

Team building

Hire, grow and keep strong engineers

I interview and hire for the company, onboard new joiners and mentor the engineers on my team towards their next level.

Recruitment board member · Brain Station 23

Client delivery

Deliver client apps end to end

I plan and estimate the work, keep clients updated and help sales shape proposals and solution designs for new business.

On site in Dubai for a UAE bank

Architecture

Set the architecture for mobile apps

Native iOS and Android, Flutter, React Native or Kotlin Multiplatform: I pick the right stack for each product, design how it is structured and hold code review to one standard across projects.

Code reviews across 10+ projects · Monstarlab

AI-first engineering

Automate engineering with AI agents

Custom Claude Code commands hand each step to AI agents: planning a feature, writing the code and tracking down bugs.

Speaker, Flutter Guild Day 2026 · “Building with Agentic AI”

Skills

Skills and technologies

Mobile

iOS Android Flutter React Native Kotlin Multiplatform Jetpack Compose Clean Architecture BLoC

Agentic AI

Agentic AI Claude Code AI agents MCP Tool calling Claude API

Leadership

Team leadership Hiring Mentoring Delivery planning Pre-sales Agile and Scrum

Delivery

CI/CD Code review GitHub Actions Bitrise Automated testing

Industries

Banking and fintech Media and streaming Social platforms E-learning

Web and backend

ReactJS TypeScript Firebase
Projects

Open-source projects

Flutter package · pub.dev

u_credit_card

A ready-made credit card design for Flutter apps, with the card number safely masked by default. Payment and banking teams can use it instead of building their own.

  • 83 likes
  • 1,804 downloads / 30 days
  • 160 / 160 pub points
View on pub.dev
Flutter package · pub.dev

trace_logger

A logging tool for Dart and Flutter that labels every message with the part of the app it came from, so developers can find problems faster. It needs no setup.

  • v1.0.2 on pub.dev
  • 160 / 160 pub points
View on pub.dev
VS Code extension · Marketplace

ARB Manager

Helps teams translate their Flutter apps into other languages. It moves on-screen text into translation files and shows every language side by side, with missing translations highlighted. Written in TypeScript.

View on Marketplace
VS Code extension · Marketplace

EmbeDroid

Shows an Android phone or emulator inside the code editor, so mobile developers can write and test their app in one window instead of two.

View on Marketplace
Awards

Awards and speaking

Utpal Barman on stage at Flutter Guild Day 2026, presenting Building with Agentic AI

Flutter Guild Day 2026 — speaker

Talk: “Building with Agentic AI — the modern development skill set”, for Flutter engineers at Brain Station 23, Dhaka.

Shunnek Labs

Team SportsBuddy's winning MonstarHacks 2024 poster, with the three team members

MonstarHacks 2024 — first place

Team SportsBuddy won Monstarlab's company-wide hackathon, run with AWS. We built an app that lets blind and deaf fans follow live sport.

Monstarlab

Create Value Award 2023 trophy from Monstarlab, presented to Utpal Barman

Create Value Award 2023

Monstarlab Bangladesh's company award, for swift action and delivering quality.

Monstarlab

2023

Monstarlab Engineering Blog — author

Articles on engineering work at Monstarlab, including the SportsBuddy build.

Monstarlab

2022–24

Education

Academic background

Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET)

BSc in Computer Science and Engineering — First Class

2018

Notre Dame College, Dhaka

HSC — GPA 5.00 / 5.00

2013

Govt. Science College Attached High School, Dhaka

SSC — GPA 5.00 / 5.00

2011

Certificates

Professional certification

Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka

Advanced Certificate for Management Professionals (ACMP 4.0)

2025

Contact

Get in touch.

Email is the quickest way to reach me. My resume is also available as a PDF.

utpal.barman.bd@gmail.com
Based in

Dhaka, Bangladesh · UTC+6

Profiles
linkedin.com/in/utpal-barman github.com/utpal-barman