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Bodruddoza Araf

Full-Stack and AI/ML Engineer

Graduating October 2026 and available full time.

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Dhaka, 2026.Been riding with code a good while now. Took a store from an empty repo to orders coming in from every corner of the country in two months, no posse, just me. TypeScript and Next.js are my iron; the data layer is where I sleep easy. Lately I've been teaching machines to see what ain't there. Finishing up at BRAC University come October, and looking for a crew to ride with full time.

photograph to come
Portrait of Bodruddoza Araf, coming soon
Based in
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Graduating
October 2026, BRAC University
Speaks
English (professional working proficiency), Bangla (native)

A note for the lawmen

Full-stack developer who took an e-commerce platform from empty repository to a live store taking nationwide orders in two months, as the only engineer on it. Strongest in TypeScript, Next.js, React and the data layer, with production LLM work and research depth in deep learning for computer vision. Graduating October 2026 and available full time.

  • 2 months

    sole engineer, empty repo to live store

  • 64 districts

    server-side delivery pricing

  • 91.9%

    accuracy, news topic classification

WANTED: skills and reputation

portrait to come

ARAF

Bodruddoza Araf

For shipping a whole store in two months, single-handed.

Also suspected in crimes against legacy code.

Known associates

TypeScript, Next.js (App Router), React, MongoDB (Mongoose), PostgreSQL, PyTorch

REWARD: one full-time offer.

Available from October 2026.

  • 27.60 dB

    PSNR, image completion thesis

  • 2nd of 6

    zero-shot average PSNR

Bounty Board

Four jobs on the board, every one of them claimed.

  • The Leather Job

    One gun, two months, sixty-four districts.

    Jack The JelliE-commerce platform, built on contract

    A leather goods brand in Dhaka

    2 monthssole engineer, empty repo to live store

    Next.js 16, TypeScript, MongoDB

    the job, in full
    • Shipped a complete e-commerce platform as the sole engineer in two months, covering storefront, cart, cash-on-delivery checkout, order tracking, customer accounts and an admin back-office in a single Next.js 16, TypeScript and MongoDB codebase.
    • Designed order placement to stay correct under failure: idempotency keys block duplicate orders, guarded atomic decrements restore stock exactly once on cancellation, and snapshotted line items stop later product edits rewriting order history.
    • Hardened a public, unauthenticated checkout with rate-limited server actions and server-side delivery pricing across all 64 districts, plus guest orders that attach to an account on email verification.
    • Cut launch infrastructure cost to effectively zero by persuading the founders to defer the payment gateway, AI search and third-party APIs until after scale.
    Claimed

  • The Crossing

    Guiding greenhorns to far-off lands.

    EduBridge AIAI Study-Abroad Advisor

    A live client brief from Freelancer.com

    Next.js 16, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Gemini API, Clerk, Zod, Neon, Drizzle ORM

    the job, in full
    • Built a university and scholarship matching platform for first-generation international students to a live client brief from Freelancer.com, pairing deterministic eligibility scoring with the Google Gemini API so every recommendation carries an explanation, strengths and a roadmap.
    • Implemented Clerk authentication with webhook user sync, Zod-validated intake, a conversational AI advisor and a recommendations dashboard on Neon Postgres through Drizzle ORM.
    Claimed

  • The Gunsmith

    Custom builds to any budget.

    PC-BuildersPC Configurator and Storefront

    React 19, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Redis, Vite, Zustand, JWT, Cloudinary, bcrypt

    the job, in full
    • Built a full PC build configurator spanning CPU, motherboard, RAM, GPU and storage as one coherent specification, plus a budget-constrained selector that assembles a compatible component set to a price the customer picks.
    • Implemented the backend with JWT auth, Redis caching, Cloudinary storage and bcrypt hashing, behind a deployed React 19 and Vite frontend using Zustand for state.
    Claimed

  • The Telegraph Sorter

    Reading the wires and sorting every message.

    News Topic ClassificationNLP Architecture Comparison

    91.9%accuracy, 0.919 macro F1

    Python, TensorFlow/Keras, Gensim, scikit-learn

    the job, in full
    • Ran a controlled comparison, as sole implementer, of three preprocessing strategies, two word representations (TF-IDF, custom Skip-gram) and six architectures (DNN, SimpleRNN, GRU, LSTM, Bi-GRU, Bi-LSTM), reaching 91.9% accuracy and 0.919 macro F1.
    • Recovered two dead baselines: diagnosed exploding-gradient collapse at chance accuracy (LSTM 25.0%, SimpleRNN 26.6%) and brought them to 91.4% and 87.3% with gradient clipping and targeted regularisation.
    • Drove preprocessing from exploratory analysis, using bigram frequency to isolate HTML noise and POS tagging to justify lemmatisation over stemming, and removed 22,067 duplicate records.
    Claimed

The Torn Page

Seeing what the fire took.

Deep Learning-Based Complete Image Prediction from Partial or Occluded Images

Undergraduate thesis, defended 2026. Supervised by Dr. Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, BRAC University. PyTorch.

  1. Dual-Manifold VQ-VAE

  2. Latent Attention U-Net Mapper

  3. Multi-Scale Detail Injection

  • Co-developed a GAN-free, single-pass image completion framework (Dual-Manifold VQ-VAE, Latent Attention U-Net Mapper and Multi-Scale Detail Injection) reaching 27.60 dB PSNR and 0.861 SSIM at roughly 32 ms per 256x256 image.
  • Owned mask generation, zero-shot evaluation on four unseen datasets, retraining of five baselines under matched conditions, and the ablations showing a 52.7% cut in mapper validation latent loss; placed 2nd of 6 on zero-shot average PSNR.
Wood engraving: two men rest by a bark lean-to and a smouldering campfire on a lakeshore
Camping Out in the Adirondack Mountains, after Winslow Homer, 1874
PSNR
27.60 dB
SSIM
0.861
per 256x256 image
~32 ms
cut in mapper validation latent loss
52.7%
on zero-shot average PSNR
2nd of 6
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Trail So Far

  1. Fall 2022

    Started at BRAC University

    B.Sc. in Computer Science, Dhaka.

  2. EduBridge AI

    A live client brief from Freelancer.com: university and scholarship matching for first-generation international students.

  3. June 2026 - August 2026

    Jack The Jelli

    Sole engineer: empty repository to a live store taking nationwide orders in two months.

  4. 2026

    Thesis defended

    Complete image prediction from partial or occluded images.

  5. October 2026

    Graduation

    B.Sc. in Computer Science, BRAC University. Available full time.

  6. Next: your outfit?

    The trail goes on from here. Send word.

Full-Stack Developer (Contract), Jack The Jelli

June 2026 - August 2026. Leather goods brand, Dhaka. jackthejelli.com (opens in a new tab)

  • Shipped a complete e-commerce platform as the sole engineer in two months, covering storefront, cart, cash-on-delivery checkout, order tracking, customer accounts and an admin back-office in a single Next.js 16, TypeScript and MongoDB codebase.
  • Designed order placement to stay correct under failure: idempotency keys block duplicate orders, guarded atomic decrements restore stock exactly once on cancellation, and snapshotted line items stop later product edits rewriting order history.
  • Hardened a public, unauthenticated checkout with rate-limited server actions and server-side delivery pricing across all 64 districts, plus guest orders that attach to an account on email verification.
  • Cut launch infrastructure cost to effectively zero by persuading the founders to defer the payment gateway, AI search and third-party APIs until after scale.

BRAC University

B.Sc. in Computer Science, Dhaka.

Fall 2022 - expected October 2026

Tools of the Trade

What rides in the satchel, and where each piece was last used.

Spoken tongues: English, professional working proficiency; Bangla, native.

Camp Stories

Football Club of BRAC University

Rising Star Football Tournament, won twice

Best Striker in the first title and Best Midfielder in the second.

  • Best Striker
  • Best Midfielder

TARC semi-finals. Reached the semi-finals at TARC during the Residential Semester.

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