Razaul Karim
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Laravel and React specialist. Has shipped 30+ admin dashboards and internal tools.
About Mad Brain
Builders, not marketers.
Mad Brain is a custom software development studio led by Asraf Porag. A focused team of senior developers across full-stack, AI, and infrastructure.
We've shipped 100+ projects across 15+ countries over 12+ years. Custom databases, admin dashboards, SaaS products, AI workflows — software that actually does the job.
We're deliberately selective about projects. The work we take on, we do properly. No hand-offs to juniors. No outsourcing. No surprises.
Led by
The person who'll actually be on your project.
Asraf Porag
Founder & Lead Engineer
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Twelve-plus years building software for clients across 15+ countries. 100+ shipped projects covering custom databases, admin dashboards, SaaS products, web scraping pipelines, and AI workflows.
Started writing code for global clients in the early 2010s. Spent a decade learning what breaks in production, what holds up over years, and what clients actually need versus what they ask for.
12+ years building custom software for global clients. Specializes in databases, SaaS architecture, and AI integration.
Built Mad Brain to focus on the work that compounds: long partnerships with serious teams, software that doesn't need to be rebuilt every eighteen months, and engineering decisions made by people who've seen the consequences before.
On every Mad Brain project, Asraf is in the code — not just on the kickoff call.
S. Brinta
Co-Founder & CTO
A decade of hands-on development across the full stack. Started building web applications in 2014, shifted focus to Laravel and React by 2016, never looked back. Led engineering teams at three different agencies before co-founding Mad Brain. Has personally reviewed over 5,000 pull requests and debugged production incidents across time zones. Believes great software comes from small teams, tight feedback loops, and saying 'no' to the right features. Specializes in turning vague requirements into shippable products. Laravel expert, React enthusiast, and database optimizer. Has built everything from real-time dashboards to batch processing systems handling millions of records. At Mad Brain, Brinta owns technical delivery — code reviews, system architecture, and making sure every project leaves the nest in better shape than it arrived.
Meet the team
behind the work.
Razaul Karim
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Laravel and React specialist. Has shipped 30+ admin dashboards and internal tools.
Konika Akter
Project Manager
Laravel and React specialist. Has shipped 30+ admin dashboards and internal tools.
Tanjum Ruponti
Client Relationship Executive
Laravel and React specialist. Has shipped 30+ admin dashboards and internal tools.
Aonkon Ratul
Front End Engineer
Laravel and React specialist. Has shipped 30+ admin dashboards and internal tools.
JH Prottoy
UX/UI Developer
Laravel and React specialist. Has shipped 30+ admin dashboards and internal tools.
What we believe
Opinions earned by shipping.
Twelve years of building software for real teams shapes how we work. Here's what we've learned.
Boring tech wins.
Postgres, Next.js, plain TypeScript — chosen because they age well, not because they trend. New frameworks come and go. Documented stacks survive.
Ship in weeks, not quarters.
Most projects we take on go live in 6–12 weeks. A six-month roadmap is usually a sign no one wants to make decisions yet.
Spreadsheets are a symptom.
When a business runs on twelve interlinked Excel files, the problem isn't the spreadsheets. It's that nobody built the system the work actually needs.
Documentation beats meetings.
Written briefs, recorded walkthroughs, and decision logs scale across time zones. Calls happen when they help, not as a default.
Partnerships beat projects.
One-off transactions don't make either side better. We'd rather work with five teams for ten years than fifty teams for one.
Senior engineers, every time.
No junior labor handed off behind the scenes. The person on the kickoff call is the person writing your code.
Where we work from
Remote-first. Globally overlapping.
Home base is Dhaka, Bangladesh. Clients are spread across the US, UK, EU, and Australia. Our day picks up around the time the US wraps theirs.
Async-friendly by default. Daily written updates, recorded walkthroughs, and clean documentation. Calls happen when they help, not as a default. US evenings overlap cleanly with our mornings, which means same-day responses without anyone keeping odd hours.
We've worked across 15+ countries. Banking holidays in two hemispheres. Timezone math is muscle memory at this point.
17
Countries served
150+
Projects delivered
Home base10+ projects3–91–2
- Bangladesh — Mad Brain home base
- United States: 97 projects delivered
- United Kingdom: 15 projects delivered
- India: 5 projects delivered
- Belgium: 4 projects delivered
- Denmark: 4 projects delivered
- Sweden: 3 projects delivered
- France: 2 projects delivered
- Trinidad and Tobago: 2 projects delivered
- Pakistan: 2 projects delivered
- Israel: 2 projects delivered
- Maldives: 2 projects delivered
- Canada: 7 projects delivered
- Saudi Arabia: 1 project delivered
- Hungary: 1 project delivered
- Norway: 1 project delivered
- Turkey: 1 project delivered
- Australia: 1 project delivered
The stack we lean on
Boring tech, used well.
We pick tools by how they age, not how they trend. The stack below covers most of what we ship — we adapt to yours when it makes sense.
Frontend
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
Backend
- Node.js
- Laravel
- Python
- FastAPI
Data
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
AI
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- LangChain
Infra
- Vercel
- AWS
- Docker
Testimonials
In their words.
They rebuilt our 9-spreadsheet tracking system into a single web app in under 8 weeks. Our ops team stopped complaining about data on day one.
James R.
CTO at LogiFlow Inc.
Custom Databases
Shipped our SaaS MVP in 10 weeks. The scope was tight and the communication was clear the whole way through. We closed our first paying customer two weeks after launch.
Sarah M.
Founder at WellNest
SaaS MVP
We needed price data from 40 competitor sites, refreshed daily. They built a pipeline that's been running without intervention for seven months.
Daniel K.
Head of Data at PriceWatch
Web Scraping & Data Pipelines
The admin dashboard replaced three separate tools we were paying for. Our recruiters figured it out without any training — that says everything.
Priya S.
Operations Manager at HireLoop
Admin Panels & Dashboards
Our quoting process lived in Excel for six years. Mad Brain converted it into a proper web app. Quotes that took 45 minutes now take under 5.
Tom B.
CEO at FieldOps
Excel to Web App
Complex HL7 integrations across three systems. Delivered on time, fully documented. We've handed it off internally with zero issues.
Lena W.
Product Lead at Medtrack
API Integration
Have a project in mind?
Tell us what you're trying to build. We'll send a scoped estimate within 24 hours — or jump on a 15-minute call if you'd rather talk it through.