About me

I am Ahad Chowdhury, originally from Dhaka 🇧🇩 — currently living in Sydney 🇦🇺

At present, I am…

• 👨🏽‍💻 Working on uds-dotnet-bun and minimal-api-jwt-auth .
• 📖 Reading Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry.
• 💭 Learning about AWS, domain driven design, and vertical slices architecture.

I also like to contribute to open source projects with code and documentation, such as Darkmode.js, Ubuntu MATE docs, and git.howtocode.dev.

🖥️ Apr 2021 - Jul 2022: Worked part-time as a Software Engineerat Apollo International, Sydney, Australia. Developed a CRM software, to be used by the staff members of the company, from scratch. Developed the frontend using Next.js, backend (including a user authentication and authorization system) 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 Engineerat Dynamic Solution Innovators Ltd., Dhaka. Projects I worked on are OpenCRVS, a solution for civil registration and vital statistics, backed by Plan International and the government of Bangladesh (case study, project details, my commits) and the enterprise solution of Olwel, a Finland-based healthcare startup providing telemedicine and at-home medical care services in Bangladesh (case study, project details). Both are full-stack web applications developed using React, Redux, Node, and Hapi; in association with Formik, MongoDB, Docker Compose, and GraphQL for OpenCRVS and Material UI, Electron, RethinkDB, and AWS S3 for Olwel.

💻 Nov 2016 - Apr 2018: Worked part-time as a Research Assistantat DESM, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on a research project (relevant news article). Used Windows Forms to develop the client-side software of NODES, an airline management system.

📚 Aug 2023 - Sep 2024: Studied Data Science at Sydney Polytechnic Institute, Sydney, Australia and got a Master of Data Science degree.

🎒 Jan 2014 - Aug 2018: Studied Computer Science and Engineering at North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh and got a Bachelor of Science degree.

C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, ASP.NET Core, Node.js, React.js, SQL, Docker, Keras/Tensorflow, PaaS, IaaS.