(means welcome in Bengali)
I am Ahad Chowdhury, originally from Dhaka 🇧🇩 — now living in Sydney 🇦🇺 and working as a Senior Software Engineer for Synechron, contracted to the Commonwealth Bank.
(Excluding Jupyter Notebook, HTML, CSS, and LaTeX)
- 👨🏽💻 Working on
KonSchool: Fuzzy-AHP-based recommendation system for secondary schools in Bangladeshideal: The ideal project template with files for AI-assisted development, markdown ADR, and all other necessary documentationweb-platform: Design system, personal portfolio website, blog, and many more exciting stuff on their way!
- 📖 Reading Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry.
- 💭 Learning about
- AWS
- serverless compute and database
- user auth (OIDC, OAuth 2.1, SSO)
- scaling out applications
- 💼 Nov 2024 - Mar 2025: Worked full-time as a Software Engineer at CORTO. Worked on the back-end projects of CORTO, a RAG-powered productivity solution for law professionals. Worked with ASP.NET Core, PostgreSQL, Entity Framework Core, and AWS.
- 📚 Aug 2023 - Sep 2024: Studied data science at Sydney Polytechnic Institute, Sydney, Australia and got a Master of Data Science degree.
- 🖥️ Apr 2021 - May 2022: Worked part-time as a Software Engineer at Apollo International. Developed a CRM software, to be used by the staff members of the company, from scratch. Developed the frontend using Next.js, backend using ASP.NET Core, with PostgreSQL as database (with Entity Framework Core as ORM) and Redis for in-memory storage.
- 🏢 Feb 2019 - Jan 2020: Worked full-time as a Junior Software Engineer at Dynamic Solution Innovators Ltd., Dhaka. Projects I worked on are the OpenCRVS project (my commits) and the enterprise solution of Olwel. Both are full-stack web applications developed with React and Hapi.
- 💻 Nov 2016 - Apr 2018: Worked part-time as a Research Assistant at DESM, North South University, Dhaka, on a research project (relevant news article). Used Windows Forms to develop the client-side software of NODES, an airline management system.
- 🎒 Jan 2014 - Aug 2018: Studied Computer Science and Engineering at North South University, Dhaka, and got a Bachelor of Science degree.
For more details, please view my resume at pia.sh/resume.
- I know the value of pi (π) up to 60 decimal places.
- I know the names and the symbols of all the elements, along with their positions in the periodic table.
- I can name all 64 districts of Bangladesh.
I know, I'm a huge nerd!
I am @maacpiash (almost) everywhere!
