Md Bazlur Rahman Likhon

Upstra Communications Limited · Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Led the AI engineering function with full ownership of end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI solutions spanning RAG platforms, LLM systems, conversational AI, voice assistants, computer vision, and intelligent surveillance.
• Architected and delivered production-grade RAG systems using PostgreSQL + pgvector, Milvus, and ChromaDB, integrating frontier LLMs and open-source models with hybrid embedding strategies for cost, latency, and accuracy optimization.
• Designed and implemented local, cloud, and hybrid LLM deployments enabling secure, low-latency, and data-residency-compliant AI platforms.
• Developed advanced biometric systems including large-scale fingerprint matching and face recognition pipelines with high-accuracy identity verification.
• Delivered intelligent document understanding systems for prescriptions and invoices, automating extraction, validation, and downstream processing.
• Led AI-based surveillance, monitoring, and behavior-analysis systems including human activity recognition, anomaly detection, and intelligent alerts.
• Partnered with major banks and pharmaceutical enterprises to design and deploy AI-driven financial and healthcare solutions at scale.
• Led and mentored AI engineers, set architectural standards, reviewed designs and code, and ensured delivery quality, security, and timelines.
• Acted as the technical bridge between business, clients, and engineering through solution workshops, live demos, and executive-level presentations.

Kamal-Paterson Ltd & KPCloud · Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Spearheaded the design, development, and deployment of complex AI and SaaS applications, managed junior development teams, and oversaw the full project lifecycle from concept to production.
• Architected the McKrishiSheba AI agricultural advisory platform using FastAPI, PostgreSQL with pgvector, Google Gemini, React + TypeScript, and Bangla TTS/STT; reduced AI costs by approximately 66–83% through token optimization.
• Led Sleepy Owl Stories, an AI story generator delivered as a production-ready application on Google Play within four months, integrating text generation, image generation, and text-to-speech.
• Guided Pocket Chef AI cooking assistant development, including its data-scraping pipeline and custom-trained AI model.
• Led production and deployment of the KP Task, KP Cards, KP Space, KP Learn, KP HRM, and KP Commerce SaaS portfolio on AWS.
• Managed critical security incidents, including hacked WordPress recovery, a 14-day enterprise email disaster recovery effort, and multiple workload migrations to AWS.
• Contributed to cloud projects in the USA, UK, Japan, and China, adapting to diverse technical environments.

Inflexionpoint Technologies BD Ltd. · Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Led a team of 20 interns and provided hands-on training on AWS, Microsoft Azure, cloud architecture, web development, machine learning deployment, and API testing.
• Increased trainees’ cloud-platform knowledge by 80% through pre- and post-training assessments and achieved a 90% transition rate to cloud-related projects.
• Designed and delivered a hands-on lab environment for machine learning deployment on the cloud, improving trainee project-completion rates by 25%.

DIU NLP & ML Research Lab, Daffodil International University · Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Conducted advanced research in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, contributing to innovative algorithms and models.
• Managed and contributed to a project focused on making the Bengali language more computation-friendly.
• Collaborated with researchers, computational linguists, and data scientists on multidisciplinary AI projects.
• Scraped and analyzed 2.4 million tweets for sentiment analysis on the Ukraine–Russia war and co-authored a published classification framework.