const nirob: Developer = {

  // ─── Identity ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  name        : "Md. Nuruzzaman Nirob",
  title       : "Full Stack Developer",
  location    : "Jatrabari, Dhaka, Bangladesh 🇧🇩",
  origin      : "100% Self-Taught — no roadmap, just relentless building 🔥",
  contact     : "dev.mdnuruzzaman@gmail.com",
  portfolio   : "https://mdnuruzzamannirob.me",

  // ─── Education ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  education   : [
    {
      degree   : "Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English",
      school   : "National University",
      period   : "2023 – 2027 (ongoing)",
    },
    {
      degree   : "Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)",
      school   : "Govt. Bangabandhu College",
      period   : "2020 – 2022",
    },
  ],

  // ─── Experience ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  experience  : [
    {
      role     : "Full Stack Developer",
      company  : "Sparktech Agency 🏢",
      period   : "Oct 2025 – Present",
      doing    : [
        "Building e-commerce platforms, client dashboards & custom web apps",
        "Sitting in client meetings — translating vision into buildable specs",
        "Owning projects end-to-end: design handoff → final delivery",
        "Writing both frontend (React/Next.js) and backend (Node/Express/MongoDB)",
      ],
    },
    {
      role     : "Frontend Developer (Remote)",
      company  : "Bhuiyan Tourism ✈️",
      period   : "Apr 2024 – Sep 2025",
      doing    : [
        "Worked on a live OTA (Online Travel Agency) platform",
        "Real users. Real flight bookings. Real consequences if things broke.",
        "Learned what no tutorial ever could: code matters to real people",
      ],
    },
  ],

  // ─── Current Focus ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  currentlyBuilding : [
    "Full-stack personal projects to go deeper into backend architecture",
    "REST APIs with Node.js + Express + MongoDB + JWT auth",
    "Scalable component systems with TypeScript & Zod validation",
  ],

  currentlyLearning : [
    "Programming Hero Level 2 — Full-stack & Data Structures",
    "Frontend Masters — Advanced React patterns & performance",
    "System design fundamentals for scalable applications",
  ],

  currentlyExploring : [
    "Socket.IO for real-time features",
    "Prisma & PostgreSQL (expanding beyond MongoDB)",
    "CI/CD pipelines & GitHub Actions",
    "Performance optimization & Core Web Vitals",
  ],

  // ─── Expertise ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  expertise   : {
    advanced  : ["React.js", "Next.js", "TypeScript", "Tailwind CSS",
                 "Redux Toolkit", "React Query", "Framer Motion", "REST APIs"],
    intermediate : ["Node.js", "Express.js", "MongoDB", "Mongoose",
                    "JWT", "Zod", "React Hook Form", "Figma → Code"],
    beginner  : ["Socket.IO", "PostgreSQL", "Prisma", "Docker (learning)"],
    tools     : ["VS Code", "Figma", "Postman", "Vite", "Git", "GitHub"],
  },

  // ─── Philosophy ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  philosophy  : "Ship fast. Break things. Fix them. Ship better.",
  mantra      : "I didn't wait to feel ready. Waiting has never built anything.",
  funFact     : "I celebrate every fixed bug like I won a trophy 🏆",
  openTo      : "MERN stack collabs, open source contributions, new opportunities",

};