I'm a software engineer from Dhaka with four years of professional experience, most of it earned while completing my Computer Science degree. I graduated from American International University-Bangladesh with a 3.92 CGPA and the Magna Cum Laude award, majoring in Software Engineering.
My longest chapter was three and a half years at Athena CRM, a London company where I helped build a multi-tenant enterprise CRM, led development of the PLAC-D mobile app, and shipped five marketing portals. More recently at ShiftLayer I built full-stack systems for decentralized AI benchmarking on the Bittensor network. Today I consult for DevBucket and run independent research on LLM safety. I'm also expanding into AI application engineering, reading and applying Chip Huyen's AI Engineering as I build.
I care about building things that hold up: readable code, measured performance, and systems that survive real users. I am looking to join a strong team with great mentors and grow alongside genuinely talented engineers.
Nov 2025 - Present
Technical consultation on feature planning, promotional logic, architecture, and product decisions across multiple business products.
Nov 2025 - Apr 2026
Full-stack systems for decentralized AI benchmarking on the Bittensor network: admin dashboard and CMS, crypto payments, and an autonomous X bot.
Apr 2022 - Sep 2025
Multi-tenant enterprise CRM for a London team: workflow editors, dynamic form engines, a Chrome extension, the PLAC-D mobile app, and five marketing portals.
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Designed and taught a 12-class workshop on modern web and mobile development for undergraduate students.
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Cross-platform telemedicine ecosystem with four panels, SSL-Commerz payments, and OTP security for web, iOS, and Android.
2020 - 2025
American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Major in Software Engineering
CGPA 3.92 / 4.00
Under review, 2026
Lead author, submitted to DICTA 2026Supervised by Md. Ismail Hossen, Griffith University, Australia (Google Scholar, LinkedIn)
A fully training-free framework on a frozen ResNet-18 that combines ZCA-whitened local descriptors with a global Mahalanobis metric to bridge the laboratory-to-field domain gap.
In progress
Independent research
Examining how LoRA-based fine-tuning impacts safety and alignment in LLMs. Evaluating public modules for toxicity, jailbreak susceptibility, and demographic bias amplification.
2024
Undergraduate thesis, supervised by Sharfuddin Mahmood, Assistant Professor, AIUB
Fine-tuned GPT-2 Medium with adaptive few-shot learning and Optuna hyperparameter optimization. Achieved 86.7% accuracy on the IMDB sentiment benchmark under limited labeled data.
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Designed and delivered a four-month, 12-class structured workshop on modern web and mobile application development for undergraduate students. Developed curriculum materials and hands-on assignments, and guided students through full-cycle application development.
Workshop introduction slidesAssociate Professor and Principal Investigator, AI for Medical Imaging (AIM) Lab, Kochi University of Technology, Japan
Former Assistant Professor of Computer Science, AIUB
md.shakhawat@kochi-tech.ac.jpCEO & Founder, Athena CRM
Reference from 3.5 years of enterprise CRM work
karen@athenacrm.ioCapabilities
Built across four years of production work, a Software Engineering major, and ongoing machine learning research.
