About me

I am Ahad Chowdhury, originally from Dhaka 🇧🇩 — currently living in Sydney 🇦🇺 — a student of Master of Data Science at Sydney Polytechnic Institute.

At present, I am…

• 👨🏽‍💻 Working on uds-dotnet-bun and minimal-api-jwt-auth.
• 📖 Reading 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang.
• 💭 Learning about domain driven design, vertical slices architecture, and clean 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 the OpenCRVS project (my commits) and the enterprise solution of Olwel. Both are full-stack web applications developed with React.js and Hapi.js.

💻 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.

🎒 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, Scikit-learn, Tensorflow/Keras, Apache Hadoop, PaaS, IaaS.