# Syed Fazle Rahman

> Syed Fazle Rahman is the co-founder and CEO of Hashnode and co-founder and CEO of Bug0. A front-end and user-experience engineer and technical author, he wrote books including Jump Start Bootstrap and Jump Start Foundation before helping build a developer publishing platform around personal domains and community discovery. His newer work focuses on AI-assisted software testing.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Hashnode; co-founder and CEO at Bug0
- **Organizations:** Hashnode, Bug0, Buildful, SitePoint
- **Education:** International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar
- **Known for:** Authored Jump Start Bootstrap and Jump Start Foundation for SitePoint, and Bootstrap for Rails for Packt., Co-founded Hashnode with Sandeep Panda and helped pivot the product to developer blogging., Hashnode reported over one million monthly active users and 60,000 active blogs at its August 2021 Series A announcement.

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Graduated from IIIT Bhubaneswar; published web development tutorials at SitePoint.
- **2014** — Published Jump Start Bootstrap.
- **2015** — Published Bootstrap for Rails and Jump Start Foundation.
- **2016** — Hashnode was publicly described as a developer discussion community co-founded with Sandeep Panda.
- **2020** — Relaunched Hashnode around developer blogging in June; announced a $2.1 million seed round in December.
- **2021** — Hashnode raised a $6.7 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures.
- **2024** — Introduced Docs by Hashnode in August.
- **2026** — Publicly identified as Bug0 co-founder and CEO, wrote about the rationale for its testing business, and appeared on Buildful’s makers page.

## Achievements

- Authored Jump Start Bootstrap and Jump Start Foundation for SitePoint, and Bootstrap for Rails for Packt.
- Co-founded Hashnode with Sandeep Panda and helped pivot the product to developer blogging.
- Hashnode reported over one million monthly active users and 60,000 active blogs at its August 2021 Series A announcement.
- Hashnode raised a $2.1 million seed round in 2020 and a $6.7 million Series A in 2021.
- Co-founded Bug0, an AI-native end-to-end testing business.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published Jevmail, an open-source, local, read-only Gmail sorting side project.
- **2026-07** — Published writing on smoke testing and self-healing tests through Bug0.
- **2026-04** — Published an essay explaining his decision to build Bug0 as a deliberately practical AI testing company.

## Links

- Website: https://fazle.dev/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fazlerocks/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/fazlerocks
- GitHub: https://github.com/fazlerocks

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Last updated: 2026-10-15