iIntesar Tahmid — Researcher

Roles & education

A timeline, in brief.

Where I have worked, learned, and what I focused on.

01 Roles

Jun 2025Present · Onsite

R&D

AI Engineer Penta Global Ltd

  • Architected autonomous agentic workflows utilizing local LLMs to automate end-to-end telecommunication processes.
  • Engineered RAG pipelines by integrating and migrating RedisVL and pgvector databases for efficient semantic search.
  • Fine-tuned large language models with PyTorch to improve domain-specific reasoning and accuracy.
  • Developed high-performance FastAPI backend services, optimizing architecture to reduce system latency and decrease response time by 20%.
  • Built interactive Next.js data visualization dashboards to monitor and display critical company and client data.

Python · PyTorch · FastAPI · RAG · RedisVL · pgvector · Next.js · LLMs

Apr 2025May 2025

PM & Research

Product Management & Research Data Elysium Software Inc

  • Promoted to a full-time Product Management and Research role to oversee product strategy, feature development, and technical execution.
  • Directed a foundational research initiative to create a comprehensive Bangla Speech-to-Text dataset, advancing regional NLP capabilities.
  • Led product discovery, feature prioritization, and roadmap planning for AI-driven SaaS products.

Product Strategy · LLMs · OpenAI API · NLP Research

Jan 2025Mar 2025

Internship

Software Development Intern Data Elysium Software Inc

  • Engineered "Affordable AI," a pay-as-you-go chatbot service integrating various LLMs, scaling the platform's user base from 1,000 to 20,000.
  • Implemented backend services and API integrations to support multi-model LLM routing.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver features on schedule.

Python · FastAPI · React.js · OpenAI API · LLMs

Feb 2024Apr 2024 · Remote

Internship

Software Engineering Intern Learnstone LLC

  • Developed reusable Vue.js components focused on optimal maintainability and developer experience.
  • Built backend services using FastAPI, ensuring clean API contracts and fast response times.
  • Leveraged TypeScript for robust type safety, enhancing code maintainability and reducing runtime errors.

Vue.js · TypeScript · FastAPI · Python

02 Education

2020 — 2025

B.Sc., Computer Science & Engineering

University of Dhaka

Algorithms · Probability · AI · Software Design · OOP

2017 — 2019

HSC, Science

Notre Dame College, Dhaka

Notre Dame English Club (competitive quizzer)

2009 — 2017

SSC, Science

St. Joseph Higher Secondary School, Dhaka

Josephite Debating Club

03 Activities & achievements

CSEDU Student's Club, University of Dhaka

Vice-President

Led one of the largest CS student communities in Bangladesh — organizing tech events, workshops, and representing student interests at the departmental level.

Codeforces · LeetCode — 200+ problems solved

Competitive Programmer

Continuously sharpened algorithmic thinking across data structures, dynamic programming, and graph theory on two of the world's most respected competitive programming platforms.

Notre Dame English Club, Notre Dame College

Quizzer

Represented the college's English Club as a competitive quizzer, blending analytical reasoning with a broad knowledge base across domains.

Josephite Debating Club, St. Joseph Higher Secondary School

Debater

Competed as a formal debater, developing structured argumentation and the ability to communicate complex ideas under pressure.

04 Toolkit

I research and build. My engineering practice covers the full research stack — from data pipelines and model fine-tuning (PyTorch, RAG, LoRA) to production APIs (FastAPI, Docker) and interactive dashboards (Next.js). This lets me turn research ideas directly into working systems without handoff friction.

Languages

Python · Java

C++ · SQL

TypeScript

AI / ML

PyTorch · LLMs · Agentic AI

Pandas · NumPy · RAG · Vector DB

Backend

FastAPI

Spring Boot · Redis

Node.js

Frontend

React.js · Next.js · Vue.js · Tailwind CSS

Databases

PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Firebase · Pinecone

Cloud & DevOps

Git

AWS · Docker

GitHub Actions

Mobile

Android SDK · Kotlin / Jetpack

05 By the numbers

20%

Response-time reduction

FastAPI architecture optimization at Penta Global — profiled bottlenecks, restructured async pipelines.

20×

User-base scale

Grew Affordable AI from 1,000 to 20,000 users at Data Elysium through multi-model LLM routing.

5

Research publications

3 workshops (IJCNLP, AAAI) · 1 conference under review · 1 ACL Findings (2026).

200+

Competitive programming problems

Data structures, dynamic programming, and graph theory on Codeforces and LeetCode.

Full CV available here or as a PDF ↓.