About

Engineer, researcher,
and lifelong student

Biography

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, conduct research in computer vision and few-shot learning (lead author on a paper accepted at DICTA 2026, and co-author on a medical vision-language systematic review), and evaluate 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.

Experience

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  1. Nov 2025 - Present

    Product & Engineering Consultant at DevBucket

    Technical consultation on feature planning, promotional logic, architecture, and product decisions across multiple business products.

  2. Nov 2025 - Apr 2026

    Software Developer at ShiftLayer

    Full-stack systems for decentralized AI benchmarking on the Bittensor network: admin dashboard and CMS, crypto payments, and an autonomous X bot.

  3. Apr 2022 - Sep 2025

    Software Developer at Athena CRM

    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.

  4. Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

    React & React Native Instructor at AIUB Computer Club

    Designed and taught a 12-class workshop on modern web and mobile development for undergraduate students.

  5. Feb 2021 - Aug 2021

    Software Developer, Contract at DA Shortcut

    Cross-platform telemedicine ecosystem with four panels, SSL-Commerz payments, and OTP security for web, iOS, and Android.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering

2020 - 2024

American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)Major: Software Engineering

CGPA: 3.92 / 4.00

  • Magna Cum Laude Award for academic excellence
  • Dean's List Award in every regular semester
  • Academic Scholarship for academic excellence

Accepted · DICTA 2026

Training-Free Whitened Local-Global Fusion for Few-Shot Plant Disease Recognition

Lead author, Accepted in DICTA 2026 (September 2, 2026)Supervised 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 on the PlantVillage benchmark.

  • Computer Vision
  • Few-Shot Learning
  • PlantVillage
  • ResNet-18
  • DICTA 2026

In progress

Few-Shot Fine-Grained Medical Diagnosis with Vision-Language Models: Taxonomy, Benchmarks, and Open Challenges

Co-author, Systematic Review & Meta-AnalysisSupervised by Md. Ismail Hossen, Griffith University, Australia (Google Scholar, LinkedIn)

Conducting a systematic review and failure-mode taxonomy of few-shot medical vision-language models, establishing standardized benchmarks for localized visual attention and clinical abstention in rare disease classification.

  • Vision-Language Models
  • Medical AI
  • Few-Shot Learning
  • Systematic Review
  • AI Safety

In progress

Large-Scale Safety Evaluation of Public LoRA Modules

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.

  • LLM Safety
  • LoRA
  • Alignment

2024

Advancing NLP Tasks Through Fine-tuning of Foundation Language Models

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.

  • NLP
  • GPT-2
  • Optuna
  • Few-Shot Learning

Teaching & Mentorship

Instructor, React & React Native Workshop

Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

AIUB Computer Club

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 slides

References

Md. Ismail Hossen

PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow, Griffith University, Australia

Research supervisor; former Lecturer in Computer Science, AIUB

ismailmmu@gmail.com

Dr. Md Shakhawat Hossain

Associate 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.jp

Karen Somal

CEO & Founder, Athena CRM

Reference from 3.5 years of enterprise CRM work

karen@athenacrm.io

Capabilities

Technical skill set

Built across four years of production work, a Software Engineering major, and ongoing machine learning research.

Languages

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • C++
  • C#
  • PHP
  • SQL

Full Stack Engineering

  • React
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Redux Toolkit
  • TanStack Query
  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • Nest.js
  • Java Spring
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui

Databases & Infrastructure

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • Redis
  • BullMQ
  • Firebase
  • REST APIs
  • Git & GitHub
  • Vercel & Netlify

Machine Learning & AI

  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face Transformers
  • PEFT / LoRA
  • Scikit-learn
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Optuna
  • Matplotlib

Research & Collaboration

  • Academic Writing
  • Technical Mentorship
  • Curriculum Design
  • Agile & Scrum

Design & Tools

  • Figma
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • Codex