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 Engineer at 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 Engineer at 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 Assistant at 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.