AI and Innovation Lead at Business Novelty Ltd., with a background across full-stack development, DevOps and embedded systems and a PhD in biomedical physics and technology. Currently leading the AI practice, from client use cases to shipped tools and the cloud platform behind them. Previously led software for the Dhaka University Telemedicine Programme and Bibeat Ltd.’s homegrown medical devices.
Lead the AI practice at Business Novelty, from identifying use cases with clients to building tailored AI solutions.
Shipped a business-focused chatbot SaaS platform and an eKYC platform built on an ML-powered OCR engine and a face verification system. Currently leading a smart IVR system, a customer satisfaction (CSAT) platform, and an AI-powered claim settlement system.
Own the cloud platform the AI products run on, including architecture, cost, and the team’s security practices.
Support the team and set the engineering standards across AI and product work.
2024 – 2025
Senior Software Engineer
Business Novelty Ltd. · Dhaka
Researched and built an AI-powered compliance tool for Somru BioScience, a leading Canadian biotech, that reviews SOPs and drug development protocols against the ICH M10 guideline and internal procedures, running a line-by-line gap analysis and a document-aware chat over the study’s documents. Built in Python and FastAPI with pluggable LLM providers.
Led the refactoring of several legacy in-house projects so they could be maintained and deployed independently, and contributed to the Java Spring Boot products.
Owned the platform side too: containerised every project onto Docker Swarm, designed the shared CI/CD pipeline, and re-provisioned the company-managed cloud estate, cutting hosting costs by almost half.
2024 – present
Software Consultant (part-time)
Bibeat Ltd. · Dhaka University Telemedicine Programme
Firmware and user-software guidance for indigenously designed medical devices.
Technical consultation on the telemedicine system and training for rural telemedicine operators.
2018 – 2023
Lead Web Developer
Dhaka University Telemedicine Programme
Led development of a web telemedicine system with video consultation and electronic medical records: 40+ rural centres, 35,000+ patient consultations.
Built a Capacitor Android app in Vue.js for roving telemedicine operators (Tele-Bondhu) delivering door-to-door care in coastal districts.
Integrated homegrown devices: 12-lead digital ECG, digital stethoscope, X-ray view box. HIPAA-aligned document storage on AWS; managed the Ubuntu hosting server.
2018 – 2023
Software Engineer
Bibeat Ltd.
Designed a universal USB device controller in C# that relays data from every Bibeat USB device over WebSocket for cross-platform use.
Built the Vue.js interface with digital signal processing for a commercial 12-lead diagnostic ECG, shipped in the telemedicine platform and a Windows Electron app.
Co-authored the NCV system user software (C#) and device firmware (C++), the digital stethoscope web UI, and a USB biomedical data acquisition system for teaching labs.
2013 – 2018
Doctoral Research Fellow
Dept. of Biomedical Physics & Technology, University of Dhaka
Designed and built the telemedicine web platform for low-resource settings, now used across 40+ centres, with WebRTC video tuned for low-bandwidth networks.
Requirements study with doctors, rural operators and administrators; evaluated four other rural telemedicine projects; ran a qualitative impact survey.
Fellowship funded by the International Science Programme, Uppsala University.
2011 – 2013
Postgraduate Research Fellow
Dept. of Biomedical Physics & Technology, University of Dhaka
Modernised the legacy Turbo C++ nerve conduction velocity software for Windows 7; used for diagnosis at the Trauma Center, Dhaka, for several years.
Built Java desktop software for recording distribution of F-latency (DFL) data with the lab’s NCV device.
2010 – 2015
Web Administrator (volunteer)
International Crimes Strategy Forum
Built and ran the network’s news site, blog, digital media archive and e-library.
2010 – 2013
Web Administrator
ABC Radio FM 89.2
WordPress site, Shoutcast live streaming and server maintenance for one of Bangladesh’s leading FM stations.
2010 – 2012
Freelance Web Developer
25+ sites in WordPress and CodeIgniter, including an employee management system for a department at Robi.
// education
2014 – 2018
PhD, Biomedical Physics & Technology
University of Dhaka
Thesis: Software Development for a Secure Telemedicine System for Slow Internet Connectivity.
2011 – 2013
MPhil, Biomedical Physics & Technology
University of Dhaka
2005 – 2009
BSc, Mechanical Engineering
Islamic University of Technology
// skills
languages
"python, php, c#, java, javascript, c++"
web
"fastapi, laravel, vue.js, spring boot, electron, capacitor, mysql"
cloud & devops
"aws, docker swarm, ci/cd, linux servers, cloud security"
ai
"retrieval-augmented generation, llm tooling"
embedded
"pic18f2550, usb host-device protocols, websocket, c++ firmware"
// publications
Papers on telemedicine and medical instrumentation are listed on ResearchGate.