Not a trained engineer. Pretrained a Bangla-focused language model end-to-end in Rust on a $164 GPU budget, found eight silent defects across two ML frameworks, and published the experience report rather than the highlight reel. Published Eyla on arXiv — an identity-anchored architecture with a new benchmark — including an honest account of the attempt that failed.

Back home to build tapmad’s Bangladesh business from zero: go-to-market, MNO and ISP distribution, payments across bKash, Nagad and carrier billing, and BTRC compliance. The hard part was never acquisition — it was moving one of the world’s most price-sensitive markets from one-off event purchases to auto-renewing subscriptions, then raising price mid-growth without breaking the curve.

Leaving a managing directorship to start again in a new market. Two months at Nuffield Health delivering 45% month-on-month growth, then GlobalData, running delegate acquisition across more than fifteen high-profile international events and rebuilding the funnel with marketing, sales and production working off the same numbers.

The campaign that defines the commercial track. Scaling B2B sales across MENA meant adapting to regional business culture rather than exporting a playbook — building alliances with local banks, telecoms and enterprises, and rebuilding the funnel around how those deals actually close.

Five years running the Bangladesh office of a telecom and ad-tech group — the role that turned a salesman into an operator. Negotiated twelve platform contracts across five categories of telecom software, carried a portfolio of twelve projects to completion, built and trained the team that delivered them, and took offshore software sales into three countries.

Event coordination and brand activations first — ATN, GMS, then marketing for a textile manufacturer. The commercial career proper starts at everjobs Bangladesh, moving from business development to Deputy Manager to Manager of Corporate Sales to Head of Corporate Sales in barely two years, running fifteen sales teams across three time zones and pushing the company into APAC markets.