Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan

Research Engineer | Data Scientist | Assistant Professor

About Me

Contact

📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh

📧 pdcsedu@gmail.com

📱 +8801534575354

A highly accomplished research engineer with over a decade of extensive experience in software engineering, data engineering, and data science. Adept in architecting scalable, robust, and efficient microservices solutions and a passion for imparting knowledge as an Assistant Professor.

Proven success in leading technical teams and collaborating with cross-functional teams including products to deliver outstanding results. Committed to ongoing professional growth and staying at the cutting edge of industry advancements.

Current Positions

  • Head of Research and Development at Penta Global Ltd.
  • Data Engineering Consultant at International Growth Center
  • Co-director at Center for Computational & Data Sciences, IUB

Experience

Head of Research and Development

Penta Global Ltd.

February 2021 – Present
  • Leading the R&D team, a combination of the Data team and Software team
  • Built a highly scalable (8000 RPS) cross-platform mobile application for the Bangladesh Election Commission. 1M downloads in first 3 months
  • Built a mobile app, used by 42k Presiding Officers during the National Election
  • Built an Election management system and Online nomination service for the Bangladesh Election Commission
  • Built a microservice-based data fusion platform. 18 law agencies in Bangladesh use it 24x7

Data Engineering Consultant

International Growth Center

April 2025 – Present
  • Designed and implemented automated data collection systems using modern techniques to extract and harmonize large-scale national and subnational datasets
  • Engineered robust database architectures handling high-volume data with optimized query performance and security
  • Developed end-to-end data pipelines automating the processing, validation, and standardization of disparate data sources
  • Created interactive data visualization dashboards tailored to country-specific requirements

Co-director

Center for Computational & Data Sciences, IUB

2023 – 2025

At CCDS, we envision a future of transformative progress, where research, technology, and human-centric design harmoniously come together. Working on industrial products to increase collaboration between academia research and industry, and taking care of industry standard training programs.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Python, Go, JavaScript

Web Development

FastAPI, Django, Flask, Firebase, NodeJS, Serverless Architecture, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes

Data Engineering

Azure Databricks, Apache Airflow, Apache NiFi, PySpark, ELK stack, Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, RedShift, MongoDB, Neo4j, Cassandra

Machine Learning

Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Jupyter

Data Visualization

Data Lakehouse, Metabase, Streamlit, Superset, Matplotlib, Seaborn, D3

Publications

BanTH: A Multi-label Hate Speech Detection Dataset for Transliterated Bangla

NAACL (A*)

May 2025

BanglaTLit: A Benchmark Dataset for Back-Transliteration of Romanized Bangla

EMNLP (A*)

November 2024

Penta ML at EXIST 2024: Tagging Sexism in Online Multimodal Content With Attention-enhanced Modal Context

EXIST Lab at CLEF 2024

July 2024

ChitroJera: A Regionally Relevant Visual Question Answering Dataset for Bangla

NAACL (Waiting for review)

Blog

Welcome to My Blog

July 30, 2025 • 2 min read

I'm excited to start sharing my thoughts and experiences in software engineering, data science, and research. Stay tuned for posts about technology trends, research insights, and tutorials...

Building Scalable Microservices for Election Systems

Coming Soon

Learn about the challenges and solutions in building a highly scalable system that handles 8000 requests per second for the Bangladesh Election Commission...

Data Engineering Best Practices

Coming Soon

A comprehensive guide to building robust data pipelines, from collection to visualization, based on my experience with national-scale datasets...