Curriculum Vitae

Md Bazlur Rahman Likhon

Senior Cloud and AI Engineer · Dhaka, Bangladesh · Available Globally

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MD BAZLUR RAHMAN LIKHON

Senior Cloud and AI Engineer

Dhaka, Bangladesh  |  (+880) 1606549236  |  [email protected]  |  linkedin.com/in/bazlur-rahman-likhon  | 

Senior AI & Cloud Engineer with 6+ years delivering production-grade LLM, RAG, computer vision, and multi-cloud systems for enterprises across the USA, UK, Japan, China, and Bangladesh. Proven record leading end-to-end AI engineering from concept to deployment — building scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms with measurable business impact. Holds BSc in Computer Science and Engineering; pursuing MSc in Information Systems Security. 300+ industry certifications across Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle.

Professional Experience

Senior Cloud and AI Engineer 04/2025 – Present
Upstra Communications Limited · Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Owns delivery of production RAG platforms, LLM systems, voice assistants, computer vision, and intelligent surveillance end-to-end.
  • Architected RAG systems using PostgreSQL+pgvector, Milvus, and ChromaDB with hybrid embedding strategies — optimising cost, latency, and accuracy for enterprise clients.
  • Designed local, cloud, and hybrid LLM deployments enabling data-residency-compliant, low-latency AI platforms.
  • Partnered with banks and pharma enterprises to deploy AI-driven financial and healthcare solutions including KYC face-match, biometric fingerprint systems, and intelligent document extraction at scale.
  • Led and mentored AI engineers; set architectural standards, reviewed designs, and ensured delivery quality, security, and timelines.
Cloud Engineer & AI Project Lead 09/2023 – 03/2025
Kamal-Paterson Ltd & KPCloud · Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Architected multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud — reducing client infrastructure costs by 40%+.
  • Led McKrishiSheba (AI agricultural RAG + pgvector advisor), cutting AI token costs by 66–83% via HNSW vector search and token optimisation.
  • Delivered Sleepy Owl Stories AI story-generator app to Google Play in 4 months, supervising mobile team and engineering core AI pipeline.
  • Built and deployed a 6-product SaaS portfolio (task management, HRM, eCommerce, LMS, digital cards) on AWS with high availability and SOC 2-aligned security.
  • Managed disaster recovery, security remediation, and cloud migrations for enterprise clients in the USA, UK, Japan, and China.
Cloud Trainer 08/2023 – 11/2023
Inflexionpoint Technologies BD Ltd · Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Designed and delivered a 12-week hands-on cloud curriculum for 20+ interns (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, MLOps, CI/CD) — boosting cloud knowledge by 80% on pre/post assessments.
  • Achieved 90% intern-to-project transition rate; introduced cutting-edge cloud tools and received consistently positive feedback from interns and management.
ML Researcher 06/2020 – 08/2023
DIU NLP & ML Research Lab · Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Published research on NLP and sentiment analysis, including a 2.4M-tweet Ukraine-Russia war sentiment study; built BERT-based models for low-resource Bangla NLP tasks achieving state-of-the-art benchmark accuracy.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams of researchers, computational linguists, and data scientists on projects advancing Bengali NLP computational accessibility.

Technical Skills

AI / Machine Learning: LLMs, RAG, LangChain, pgvector, Milvus, ChromaDB, Computer Vision, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Generative AI, Prompt Engineering
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD
Languages & Frameworks: Python, Node.js, TypeScript, SQL, C++, FastAPI, Flask, React
Data & DevOps: BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MLOps, Vertex AI, SageMaker, Power BI, Git

Education

MSc Information Systems Security (In Progress) 2025 – Present
Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) · Dhaka, Bangladesh
BSc Computer Science & Engineering — GPA 3.62 / 4.00 2019 – 2023
Daffodil International University · Dhaka, Bangladesh · Thesis: Sentiment Analysis on Ukraine-Russia War Using Tweets

Key Certifications (300+ total — full list at brlikhon.engineer/certifications)

GCP Professional ML Engineer GCP Professional Data Engineer GCP Professional Security Ops Engineer GCP Associate Cloud Engineer GCP Generative AI Leader Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102) Azure Fabric Data Engineer (DP-700) Oracle Cloud GenAI Professional Intel Edge AI Certification Kubernetes & Cloud Native (Linux Foundation) AWS AI Programming (Udacity Nanodegree) GitHub Foundations

Selected Projects

Call Center AI: Real-time Bangla voice AI using FastAPI + Twilio + Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio with WebSocket bridge and Cloud Run deployment.
RAG Online Shop (Vertex AI): Production RAG system for PC hardware with pgvector, IVFFlat indexing, 768-dim embeddings, and ~80%+ relevance accuracy.
KYC Face Match Platform: Banking-grade multi-tenant eKYC with tenant isolation, role-based admin, audit trails, and certificate-based access controls.
FaceTrack AI: AI-powered attendance system with age-invariant face recognition, anti-spoofing, multi-camera support, and 28+ REST API endpoints.
Network Intrusion Detection (CIC-IDS-2017): 12 ML models on 2.8M+ records; XGBoost achieved 99.87% accuracy with SHAP/LIME explainability.
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