Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan

Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan

Research Engineer | Data Scientist | CTO

A highly accomplished research engineer with over a decade of experience in software engineering, data engineering, and data science. Specialized in architecting scalable microservices and leading technical teams. Currently leading R&D at Penta Global, co-founding krait.io, and driving technology initiatives at National Citizens Party.

About Me

Current Positions

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Co-Founder & CTO
krait.io
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Head of R&D
Penta Global Ltd.
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Data Consultant
International Growth Center
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EC Member & IT Cell Head
National Citizens Party

Professional Summary

With over 12 years of industry experience and 5 years in research and teaching, I specialize in building scalable, robust, and efficient solutions. My expertise spans across software engineering, data engineering, and data science, with a proven track record of leading technical teams and delivering impactful projects.

I've successfully built highly scalable applications handling 8000+ RPS, developed data fusion platforms used by 18 law enforcement agencies, and conducted cutting-edge research in NLP and computer vision. My work bridges the gap between academic research and industry applications, focusing on real-world impact and innovation.

Currently, I'm leading multiple initiatives including an advanced security platform at krait.io, research projects on trade-based money laundering with Bangladesh Bank, and digital transformation efforts at the National Citizens Party.

Professional Experience

Co-Founder and CTO
krait.io
2024 - Present

Building an advanced security platform that provides comprehensive application security testing capabilities including:

  • SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
  • DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)
  • SCA (Software Composition Analysis)
  • Container scanning and vulnerability assessment
EC Member, Joint Member Secretary & IT Cell Head
National Citizens Party (NCP)
2024 - Present
  • Drive organizational strategy, coordinate party activities, and facilitate policy implementation at the executive level
  • Direct digital infrastructure development, oversee technology adoption, and manage IT-driven communication initiatives
  • Uphold party standards through governance oversight and ethical compliance enforcement
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 a microservice-based data fusion platform for Bangladesh Army - 18 law agencies use it 24x7
Data Consultant
International Growth Center
April 2025 - Present
  • Ongoing research project with Bangladesh Bank to investigate Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML)
  • Designed and implemented automated data collection systems to extract and harmonize large-scale datasets
  • Engineered robust database architectures handling high-volume data with optimized query performance
  • Created interactive data visualization dashboards - energy.datahubbd.org
Co-Director
Center for Computational & Data Sciences, IUB
2023 - 2025

Responsible for industrial products which increased collaboration between academia research and industry. Managed industry standard training programs.

Head of Data Team
Praava Health
September 2021 - March 2023
  • Designed Organization-wide Data Strategy
  • Built Modern Data Lakehouse from scratch
  • Advanced Data Analytics (Revenue metrics dashboard, KPI, interactive reports)
  • Worked as Growth Hacker between Marketing, Engineering, and Product teams
  • Ensured Data Governance throughout the organization

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Python Go Rust JavaScript

Web Development

FastAPI Django Flask Firebase NodeJS Microservices Serverless

DevOps & MLOps

Docker Kubernetes MLFlow KubeFlow AWS Azure GCP

Data Engineering

Azure Databricks Apache Airflow Apache NiFi PySpark ELK Stack Kafka Spark Streaming

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL BigQuery RedShift MongoDB Neo4j Cassandra

Machine Learning & AI

Scikit-learn PyTorch TensorFlow Jupyter NLP Computer Vision

Data Visualization

Data Lakehouse Metabase Streamlit Superset D3.js Matplotlib

Mobile Development

Android Flutter Cross-Platform

Research Publications

BanglaProtha: Evaluating Vision Language Models in Underrepresented Long-tail Cultural Contexts
WACV 2026 (Core Rank: A)
Accepted
ChitroJera: A Regionally Relevant Visual Question Answering Dataset for Bangla
ECML-PKDD 2025 (Core Rank: A)
Accepted
BanTH: A Multi-label Hate Speech Detection Dataset for Transliterated Bangla
NAACL 2025 (Core Rank: A*/A)
Accepted
BanglaTLit: A Benchmark Dataset for Back-Transliteration of Romanized Bangla
EMNLP 2024 (Core Rank: A*)
Accepted
Penta ML at EXIST 2024: Tagging Sexism in Online Multimodal Content With Attention-enhanced Modal Context
EXIST Lab at CLEF 2024
Published
LP-FT-LoRA: A Three-Stage PEFT Framework for Efficient Domain Adaptation in Bangla NLP Tasks
Bangla Language Processing Workshop 2025
Accepted
How Good LLMs Are at Answering Bangla Medical Visual Questions? Dataset and Benchmarking
Medicine and Healthcare Bridge Program at AAAI26
Under Review
Decoupling Representation for Fine-tuning with Linear Probing and LoRA on Robust Downstream Adaptation
LREC Conference
Under Review

Education & Certifications

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science & Engineering
2012

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Professional Certifications
  • Deep Learning Specialization
  • Certified Data Scientist in Python, Dataquest
  • Certified Data Scientist in R Track, Datacamp
  • Mastering Product Management, Reforge Fall Cohort 2022
  • Data for Product Manager, Reforge Summer 2022 Cohort
  • Certified Scrum Master
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