From a button phone to Country Head

About

No mentor, no shortcut, and a stubborn refusal to do what was expected. Here's how it actually went.

Nayamul Roni

I'm Nayamul Roni.

Design Engineer with a Computer Science degree. I design products and build their front ends, so the thing you approve is the thing that ships. Country Head of FoxSuite.ai in Bangladesh. Five years in, still building. What follows is the long version: where I started, what I learned the hard way, and what drives the work now.

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The journey

Learning, then building

1999 · Jhalokathi

A district town, and a plan I didn't follow

Born in a small district town in southern Bangladesh. My father taught school; my mother ran the household. The family plan for a bright son was a government job — stable, respectable, the safe answer to every question. I didn't take it.

Before 2017

Writing code on a button phone

Before I owned a computer, I was already trying to make software on a device never built for it. That's the whole story in one image: the constraint was never a reason to stop.

2016 · Barishal

Computer Science Engineering, my own choice

I moved to Barishal to study CSE at Global University Bangladesh. My first computer arrived in 2017, late by any standard in this industry. No mentor, no relative in tech, no one to point the way.

2017

YouTube was the curriculum

I taught myself graphic design that year and got good enough, fast enough, to mentor others while still learning. Then came WordPress: real sites, real clients, real code. Design and code pulled me toward the same place — building products.

2019

The first thing that mattered — and never shipped

A citizen-protection mobile app for the police force. Never published. I still count it, because it was the first time design meant responsibility rather than decoration.

2022

First contractual role

Websites, ERP systems, dashboards and business applications. Top Gear Automobiles, Rabbil.com , a garments management system, accounting software. Real deadlines, no safety net.

2023 & 2024 · Barishal

I organised Artisanal Convergence

For two seasons, I organised Artisanal Convergence in Barishal — bringing the design community together in a city that rarely gets its own events. We ended it after those two seasons, but the point stayed with me: design careers do not only happen in Dhaka.

I organised Artisanal Convergence
2023

Enterprise taught me everything

My first enterprise-scale product: thousands of interface states, real operational data, and workflows where one bad decision costs someone their working day. That's where I learned to design for the system, not the screenshot.

2024–25

Thirty products, sixteen months, another continent

I delivered 30+ client products across Canada and North America — education, manufacturing, legal, fitness, jewellery and eCommerce. Volume at that pace only works with systems, so I built them, in design and in code.

Thirty products, sixteen months, another continent
2026 · FoxSuite.ai

Country Head at twenty-six

I now lead product design across an AI business platform: UX strategy, product vision, the design system, and the company's growth in Bangladesh.

Country Head at twenty-six
Principle

Simple before beautiful. Useful before impressive.

That didn't come from a book or a mentor. It came from getting burned — shipping things that looked good and helped nobody.

01

Shipping

An unshipped product earns nothing. I'd rather launch something honest and imperfect than polish something nobody has touched.

02

Teaching

I run a live mentorship cohort — 20 classes, beginner to portfolio-ready. The structure I wish someone had handed me at nineteen.

03

Community

Organised Artisanal Convergence in Barishal for two seasons, 2023 and 2024. IT Executive at SNDC Bangladesh, and formerly at Barishal Blood Donors Club.

04

Craft

Enterprise systems taught me details compound. A confusing screen costs someone an hour every day, forever.

Artisanal Convergence Barishal, 2023 & 2024
Community

Artisanal Convergence
Barishal, 2023 & 2024

For two seasons I organised Artisanal Convergence, a design community event in a city that rarely gets its own. Speakers, students, and a room full of people who assumed design careers only happened in Dhaka. We ended it after the second season, but it did what it needed to do. It taught me what client work doesn't: how to hold a room, and how much talent sits outside the capital waiting for a reason to start.

Best Argument Award Global Leadership Summit 2026
Recognition

Best Argument Award
Global Leadership Summit 2026

Kuala Lumpur, hosted at Asia Pacific University. Careers stall when someone can produce good work but can't defend it in a room full of stakeholders. That's the skill I was recognised for — and the one clients actually pay for.

The road

Travelling changed how I design

Three countries so far. Each one taught me something a screen never could — that assumptions about how people use things stop travelling well the moment you cross a border.

2023 · India

The first stamp

The trip that made the region feel navigable instead of distant. Mountains, and a long way from a district town in Barishal.

The first stamp
2026 · China

Scale looks different up close

Seeing infrastructure built at that pace resets what you think is possible, and how small most constraints really are.

Scale looks different up close
2026 · Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, and an award I didn't expect

The Global Leadership Summit, Genting Highlands above the clouds, Thean Hou Temple, and a design field trip to Immersify. I came home with the Best Argument Award.

Kuala Lumpur, and an award I didn't expect
Travel notes

Places that changed my eye

Not postcard stops — references I carry back into product work. Scale from China, discipline from Malaysia, and the small visual details that make unfamiliar places instantly readable

India
India2023

First stamp on the passport.

China
China2026

Scale looks different up close.

Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur2026

Came home with the award.

Genting Highlands
Genting Highlands2026

Above the clouds.

Thean Hou Temple
Thean Hou Temple2026

Details everywhere you look.

Immersify KL
Immersify KL2026

A design field trip.

Chinatown KL
Chinatown KL2026

Street art, texture, and old-city details.

GLS Summit
GLS Summit2026

The room that changed the year.

I take on one or two projects at a time

That way your product gets my full attention, from the first screen to the last line of code. If you're building something and it's moving slower than your ambition, book a call. Thirty minutes, no pitch.

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AvailabilityOpen · 2026
Typical MVP4–8 weeks
Based inBangladesh · GMT+6
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