Zihad Tarafdarjack of all trades, master of some

Hello, World! I’m a mechanical engineer by degree, biomedical engineer by PhD, and these days mostly AI and cloud-native by trade. Honestly, the lines between them keep getting thinner, and I like it that way :-)

In a nutshell, I like tinkering with tech: from streaming a faint heartbeat off a digital stethoscope to a doctor in another city, to wiring the latest language model into an enterprise app, with the odd silly Python script in between. Jack of all trades, master of some, and the trades keep changing.

Right now I lead AI and innovation at Business Novelty Ltd., where I build AI tools for enterprise clients, run the cloud infrastructure behind them, and help the team decide what’s worth building next.

Before that, I worked with the Department of Biomedical Physics & Technology at Dhaka University and Bibeat Ltd. on affordable healthcare for low- and middle-income countries. I led software for homegrown medical devices and helped build a telemedicine platform that has been recognised internationally.

When I’m not coding, I’m usually reading, tech blogs by day and paperbacks by night, planning trips with a roughly twenty-five percent departure rate, or playing peekaboo with my pet birds, Totoro and Momo.