Team Lead and full-stack developer on Himalayas- a project to reduce storage costs for the Enterprise Video Platform (EVP); designed and implemented archival tools with rich functionalities leveraging Amazon’s low-cost storage (Glacier); identified inefficiencies in storage usage to bring down costs by 60-70%.

I work as a Research Assistant in the Waterloo Intelligent Systems Engineering Lab. My tasks included performing literature reviews, designing and implementing algorithms to solve research problems, designing experiments and verifying results and analysis. Projects:Autonomoose [https://www.autonomoose.net/]The autonomous driving project at University of Waterloo- worked in a team of over 50 members, following strict coding standards, version control, unit tests etc. to ensure successful deployment of code on the car- worked on the Map Server where I wrote API for publishing maps and routes as required by other modules such as the Behavior Planner- became familiar with the Robot Operating System (ROS); coded the module in C++.GAN-based approaches to improve semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles:- research project in the domain of Autonomous Driving and Computer Vision- used various state-of-the-art Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to filter our rain and other weather or lighting conditions that adversely affect semantic segmentation - used Keras with Tensorflow backend to train machine learning models; coded in Python

I worked at Kaz Software Ltd as an Associate Software Engineer. I worked on medium-large scale Management Information Systems required by both local and international companies. My role in the company was to understand use cases, design modular architecture, break them down into small stories/tickets, to then implement said stories, write test cases, fix bugs in existing code and implement enhancements or changes if needed. I would be expected to code full-stack. We followed Agile development process and I had at one point served as the Scrum Master.Projects:CCDB (2017)- management information system (MIS) for an NGO (CCDB); the product served to digitize the entire pipeline for the company activities as well as internal management. - backend was developed on the .NET framework with MSSQL database, with a front-end of primarily AngularJS using Material design- I was involved as a software developer working full-stack from the inception of the project to near completion. BSkillFUL (2016)- MIS a project for Swiss Contact- developed on the .NET framework with MSSQL database, with a front-end of primarily AngularJS- I was involved as a full-stack developer from the middle of the project timeline till its release and post-release support.

I have occasionally written as a freelance writer for The Daily Star, in particular for the features section Rising Stars, SHOUT, Next Step and Bytes.https://www.thedailystar.net/author/zarif-masud

IIT DU Optimization Research GroupTasks included performing literature reviews, designing and implementing computer algorithms to solve research problems, collecting data, analyzing and reporting the results in scholarly articlesProjects: Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Legacy Software clustering (2015)- implemented a Branch-and-Bound algorithm to solve an NP-hard clustering problem. - modeled as a minimization problem, using CPlex was used to solve the LP- shown to converge to optimum solution, but much costlier than near-optimal heuristic approaches that are proposed in literaturehttps://sites.google.com/site/iitduoptimization/home

I have interned for Jantrik Technologies for six months in which time I have worked with a number of technologies and got acquainted with various industry practices. The internship period provided me with the opportunity to experience first-hand where and how theory meets practice.Projects I've worked on:Android app: Lloyd List. An android e-commerce app developed during my internship period at Jantrik Technologies Ltd. coded in Java.Desktop Application: Building a JavaScript interface using AngularJS for a .NET application. The front-end of the application was proving to be problematic coded in .NET C# and the CTO wanted an AngularJS implementation for the user interface and other business logic on the front-end.