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Engineering
I design and build the systems.
Web applications, backend services, database design, and API architecture that survives real traffic.
Hello, It's Me!
Shakib Ahmed
Software Engineer, Product Manager, Startup Founder
I build technology products and digital businesses at the intersection of engineering, product, and strategy. From Bangladesh, I transform real-world problems into scalable software solutions that create meaningful impact across education, enterprise, and digital platforms.
Who I Am
Hi there! Glad to see you here.
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Ventures founded
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Industries worked in
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Years writing code
2019
Building since
My journey started with engineering. It taught me that technology is not just about writing code — it is about understanding people, identifying meaningful problems, and building solutions that create real impact.
I am a Software Engineer, Product Manager, and Entrepreneur building technology products and digital businesses from Bangladesh. I work at the intersection of engineering, product, and strategy — turning ideas into scalable solutions that solve real-world challenges.
Currently in my final year of Software Engineering at Daffodil International University, I combine technical expertise with product thinking and business understanding to build reliable digital systems and meaningful user experiences.
I founded Bangladesh Software Company Ltd. (BSCL), a technology company focused on software engineering, digital solutions, and helping businesses adopt technology to accelerate growth. Beyond software services, I am building technology-driven ventures across education, commerce, and mobility — Mentor BD, an EdTech platform transforming the tutoring ecosystem; FoodBank, a digital commerce venture; and Ekhon Tickets, a travel technology platform built to simplify digital mobility.
Alongside entrepreneurship, my work in business development at Index Apparels Ltd. taught me the complete journey of building a successful product — from customer needs and market opportunities through to strategy, execution, and sustainable growth. It is why I enjoy the whole product lifecycle: discovering problems, defining the vision, designing scalable systems, and working with engineering, design, and business teams to bring ideas to life.
Interests
- Software Engineering
- Product Management
- System Design
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cloud Computing
- SaaS
- Digital Transformation
- Startup Development
I believe Bangladesh has the talent and potential to build world-class technology companies. My mission is to create products and organisations that solve meaningful problems, empower people, and showcase Bangladeshi innovation on a global stage.
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Product
I decide what gets built, and why.
User research, requirement analysis, roadmaps, SRS documentation, and the discipline to cut features.
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Business
I figure out how it survives.
Positioning, growth strategy, partnerships, client relationships, and honest unit economics.
02Ventures
What I Am Building
Two companies I lead day to day, plus the ventures growing alongside them. Each card states honestly where it actually stands.
Bangladesh Software Company Ltd
The problem
Many growing businesses still depend on spreadsheets, paper-based workflows, disconnected systems, and manual operations. Existing software often fails to reflect how these businesses actually work — the result is repetitive tasks, limited visibility, and slower decision-making.
What we do
A software engineering and technology consulting company that helps businesses accelerate digital transformation through custom software. We work closely with organisations to understand their operations, identify inefficiencies, and design scalable technology that simplifies complex business processes.
Services span custom web and mobile applications, enterprise software, SaaS platforms, business automation, system integration, and digital product consulting. Rather than simply delivering software, we build solutions that improve operational efficiency and create long-term value.
My role
- Define the company's vision, long-term strategy, and market positioning
- Lead client discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, and requirement analysis
- Translate business challenges into digital product strategies and technical specifications
- Design solution architecture, product roadmaps, and system workflows before development begins
- Work with engineering, design, and project teams across the product lifecycle
- Oversee delivery, quality assurance, client communication, and strategic decisions
- Build long-term client relationships while driving sustainable growth
- Mission
- To empower businesses with reliable, scalable software that simplifies operations, improves productivity, and enables sustainable digital growth.
- Vision
- To become one of Bangladesh's leading software engineering companies, recognised globally for digital products that transform how organisations operate.
- Custom Software
- Enterprise Systems
- SaaS Platforms
- Business Automation
- System Integration
- Product Consulting
Mentor BD
The problem
Finding the right tutor in Bangladesh is slow, unreliable, and fragmented. Guardians struggle to identify qualified tutors while capable tutors have limited access to good tuition opportunities. Most matching still runs on Facebook groups, personal referrals, and unstructured messaging.
What we do
An education technology platform that connects students, guardians, and tutors through a modern digital marketplace — covering the whole journey from posting a tuition requirement to discovering verified tutors, managing applications, scheduling trial classes, and communicating securely.
By pairing technology with a structured matching process, Mentor BD helps families find the right tutor faster while creating more opportunities for qualified educators.
My role
- Define the long-term vision and growth strategy for the platform
- Run market research across Bangladesh's education sector
- Lead product discovery, user research, and requirement analysis
- Design platform features, user experience, and the product roadmap
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications and delivery plans
- Collaborate with engineering, design, and operations across the product lifecycle
- Build partnerships with educational institutions, tutors, and stakeholders
- Drive customer acquisition and continuous product improvement
- Mission
- To make finding quality tutors simple, transparent, and accessible through technology.
- Vision
- To become Bangladesh's most trusted tutoring platform, and to grow into an education technology ecosystem serving learners and educators across South Asia.
- Marketplace
- Tutor Verification
- Guardian Dashboard
- Matching
- Trial Scheduling
- Secure Messaging
FoodBank Limited
The problem
Buyers who want genuinely organic food have no way to tell it apart from everything else labelled organic. Trust, not supply, is the bottleneck.
What it does
A direct-to-consumer organic food brand built on sourcing transparency and repeat customers rather than one-off discount traffic.
- D2C
- Digital Commerce
- Brand Building
- Retention
Ekhon Tickets
The problem
Intercity travel in Bangladesh still means calling a counter, paying cash, and hoping the seat exists. The booking layer is the least digital part of the journey.
What it does
A travel technology platform that simplifies digital ticketing and mobility — real seat inventory, digital payment, and a ticket that lives on your phone instead of in your pocket.
- Digital Ticketing
- Payments
- Mobility
- Dashboards
Ekhon Ecosystem
The problem
Everyday services in Bangladesh — rides, food, courier, payments — each live in a separate app with a separate account and a separate wallet. The friction is the product.
What it does
A long-term vision for a connected services ecosystem where mobility, delivery, courier, and marketplace share one identity layer. Ekhon Tickets is the first surface of it.
- Mobility
- Delivery
- Courier
- Marketplace
03My Journey
How I Got Here
Six years, four ventures, and a lot of things that did not work first.
- 2019
Wrote the first line of code
Started programming out of curiosity rather than coursework. Spent the year on fundamentals — logic, structure, and the habit of finishing what I started.
- 2021
Moved from learning to building
Shifted from tutorials to real software development — web applications, databases, and the first projects that had actual users instead of a grade.
- 2023
Learned the business half
Joined Index Apparels Ltd. as a Business Development Officer. Engineering had taught me how to build; this was the year I learned why most builds never sell.
- 2024
Founded FoodBank Limited
Started a direct-to-consumer organic food brand and ran it end to end — sourcing, storefront, marketing, and the customer experience that turns a first order into a second.
- 2025
Founded Bangladesh Software Company Ltd and Mentor BD
Turned software work into a company — custom applications, enterprise systems, and business automation — and started Mentor BD to fix how Bangladesh finds tutors.
- 2026
Building Ekhon
Building Ekhon Tickets as the first surface of a longer-term services ecosystem, while finishing my Software Engineering degree at DIU.
04Experience & Education
Experience & Education
The formal record — alongside the ventures, not instead of them.
Experience
- 2023 — PresentDhaka, Bangladesh
Business Development Officer
Index Apparels Ltd.
Garments and apparel manufacturing. My family business, and the place I learned how revenue behaves outside of software.
- Handle business development and new client acquisition in the apparel export sector
- Run market analysis to identify buyer segments and pricing pressure
- Manage ongoing client relationships and negotiation cycles
- Contribute to growth planning and operational decision-making
- Translated traditional operations experience directly into how I scope software for SME clients
- Business Development
- Market Analysis
- Client Relations
- Negotiation
Education
- Expected graduation Jan 2027Dhaka, Bangladesh
B.Sc. in Software Engineering
Daffodil International University
Department of Software Engineering.
- Core coursework in software development, architecture, and database systems
- Studied Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction
- Software Project Management — applied directly to running my own ventures
- Led JourneyEasy, a smart transportation system, as software project lead
- Software Architecture
- Databases
- AI
- HCI
- Project Management
My Skills
The stack I build with, and the disciplines I work across.
Coding Skills
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React.js
- Next.js
- Node.js
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Tailwind
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
Tools & Platforms
- Git
- GitHub
- Docker
- Firebase
- VS Code
- Postman
- Figma
- Vercel
- Linux
Product
How an idea becomes something a team can actually build.
- User Research
- Market Research
- Requirement Gathering
- Product Strategy
- Product Roadmap
- Feature Prioritisation
- SRS Documentation
- Agile Development
- UI/UX Collaboration
- Release Planning
Business
What keeps a product alive after launch week.
- Business Development
- Marketing Strategy
- Growth Strategy
- Partnerships
- Entrepreneurship
- Leadership
- Client Relationship Management
- Business Operations
06Selected Work
Featured Projects
Four builds that show the range — product definition, systems work, and commerce.
01EdTech Platform
Mentor BD
A tutoring marketplace where guardians can finally verify who they are hiring.
Defined the full product from a blank page: tutor profiles, guardian dashboards, student–tutor matching, and tuition management. The hard problem was not the software — it was designing trust into a market that runs on referrals.
What I did
- Ran discovery interviews with guardians, students, and working tutors
- Wrote the product requirement specification and feature roadmap
- Specified the matching logic and profile verification flow
- Designed the guardian dashboard and tuition management model
- Next.js
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- REST API
- Figma
02Travel Technology
Ekhon Tickets
Intercity ticket booking that does not require phoning a counter.
A booking platform covering seat inventory, digital payment, ticket management, and a passenger dashboard — designed as the first surface of the wider Ekhon services ecosystem.
What I did
- Defined the end-to-end booking and payment flow
- Specified inventory and ticket lifecycle management
- Designed the passenger dashboard and travel information layer
- Set the architecture boundary so future Ekhon services can reuse the identity layer
- Next.js
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Payment Integration
03Smart Transportation
JourneyEasy
A university-scale transport management system, led end to end.
Led the project team through requirement analysis, system design, and delivery of a smart transportation platform — the first time I owned both the engineering plan and the delivery schedule.
What I did
- Led requirement analysis and system design
- Split the build into deliverable modules and assigned ownership
- Reviewed implementation and integration across the team
- Produced the project documentation and final defence materials
- Web Application
- Database Design
- System Design
- Project Management
04E-commerce
FoodBank Limited
An organic food brand that competes on trust rather than discounts.
Built a direct-to-consumer commerce operation from zero: sourcing, storefront, digital marketing, and the customer experience that turns a first order into a second one.
What I did
- Set up and ran business operations end to end
- Owned the digital marketing and acquisition strategy
- Built the brand identity and customer experience
- Managed retention and repeat-purchase behaviour
- E-commerce
- Digital Marketing
- Brand Strategy
- Operations
Vision
Building technology companies from Bangladesh, for the world.
Bangladesh has the engineers, the market, and the problems worth solving. What it has been short of are companies built to last past the first funding round. I want to build a few of those.
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Build With Purpose
Solve a problem someone can name. If nobody can name it, it is a feature, not a company.
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Continuous Learning
Technical depth and business literacy compound. Neglect either one and the other stops mattering.
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Innovation
Challenge the existing solution before rebuilding it. Most markets are held by defaults, not by quality.
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Long-Term Thinking
Build companies that survive without me in the room. Anything else is a job with extra steps.
07Contact
Let's Build Something Meaningful
Whether you have a product idea, a partnership in mind, or just want to talk about what you're building — my inbox is open.
Open to
- Founders & Entrepreneurs
- Engineers & Product Leaders
- Investors & Partnerships
- Designers & Innovators
LocationDhaka, Bangladesh