Intro

I printed my first Hello World at twelve. I have not really stopped since.

That is most of the story. Programming was never the serious thing I kept beside a hobby, or the hobby I kept beside something serious. It was just the thing I kept choosing. What surprises me is that it got more interesting the more I understood it. Most things go the other way.

Currently

I am doing Computer Science and Engineering at BUET, and almost everything I build now has a language model somewhere in it.

The model is never the interesting part. Everything around it is. An options agent I wrote this year prices what it will cost to close a trade before it opens one, because in short-dated options that cost is the trade and almost nobody measures it. A forensics tool I built parses every piece of evidence into structured data before the model is allowed near it, so it cannot invent a finding and call it a fact. Same instinct both times: give the model the one small job only it can do, and make everything else boring and checkable.

I also run SrotDev, an engineering collective I founded. Most of what we have shipped in the last year came out of a hackathon.

Some history

2011. My parents bought a family laptop, an old HP running Windows 7. I wore the spacebar out inside a year on GTA Vice City, Road Rash and House of the Dead.

Around eight. I asked my mother what my uncle actually did for a living. She said he makes the games you play. I remember deciding, right then, that I wanted to be on that side of it.

2015. Moved to Dhaka and got into Rajuk Uttara Model College. A lot of who I am now was settled there.

2016. Won a novel as a prize for academic results, 1971 by Humayun Ahmed. I read it in one sitting and did not sleep afterwards. That is where the reading habit started, and most of the 600 books came later.

Twelve. Joined the school robotics and technology club, where I understood almost nothing that was happening. That turned out to be the useful part.

Twelve to fourteen. Taught myself Python, then C, then C++, out of tutorials and documentation and a great deal of guessing.

2020. The pandemic left me with nothing to do, so I learned web development with it. I also found freeCodeCamp, EddieHub and MLH, which is where I learned that strangers will help you for free if you actually ask.

Sixteen. Started writing technical articles to pay some of that back. freeCodeCamp News published two of them. Writing has done more for how I think than any course I have taken.

Late 2020. Ran PyCampaign20, a beginners' programming bootcamp over lockdown. It was the first time I taught anything. It stuck.

2021. Developer communities here mostly served university students, so I co-founded The AS8 Organization for everyone they were skipping. It reached about 20,000 people.

2022. Got into Notre Dame College and joined NDITC intending to run it. Eventually I did, as President of Web and App Development. Two national fests, INIT 3.0 and 4.0, and around 500 students taught face to face.

2023. Received the Honorable Mention Award, which Notre Dame gives to students who hold up academically and in club leadership at the same time.

2024. Sat the university entrance exams and got into BUET for Computer Science and Engineering.

2025. Hackathons, more or less constantly. What a list of awards does not show is that the first win arrived after a long streak of not winning anything. I still think it is the fastest way to work on a problem I do not understand yet, with a real deadline and nowhere to hide behind a plan.

2026. Started entering competitions where the scoreboard is a metric instead of a panel. Three weeks of training runs on hours of noisy Bangla conversation for DL Sprint at BUET CSE Fest, and a Bengali hallucination detector for the IUT datathon that reached third on the leaderboard. It is a different kind of work from shipping a product, and I found I liked it. You cannot talk your way past a held-out test set.

I have more stories. They are better over coffee than on the internet.

I like

• Exploring and learning new topics
• Problem solving
• Teaching
• Writing technical articles
• Discussing ideas
• Books
• Anime
• Coffee
• Space
• Rain
• Chess
• Football
• Open source
• Startup culture

If any of that overlaps with you, start a conversation. I like talking to people who see things the way I do. I like talking to the ones who do not even more.

Fun facts

• I was born on 28 December 2004.
• I was born in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, and grew up mostly in Dhaka.
• I wanted to be a pilot.
• I started coding at twelve.
• I lost 20 kilograms in under six months.
• I had major eye surgery in 2017.
• I have read more than 600 books. Most of them fiction.
• I added this page because so many people complained that my site was just my resume.

I dream of

• Inspiring people, and being inspired by them.
• Staying curious.
• Getting a little better than I was, and not stopping.
• Not regretting my past actions.