Software Engineer

Oct, 2024 - Present

THG

I work with the THG Procurement team to enhance, upgrade, and assist end users with new and existing features of procurement such as Requisitions, Orders, Invoices, GIA, Delivery Bookings, Receipting Process etc. My responsibilities include backend development using Java and Spring Boot, incorporating asynchronous processing. I've also designed responsive user interfaces using Angular, TypeScript, and Bootstrap. Additionally, I'm on 24-hour call for addressing outages and resolving issues swiftly. I place a strong emphasis on test-driven development, adhering to agile principles, and I create thorough unit and integration tests to guarantee code quality and resilience. Furthermore, I actively engage with multiple teams to ensure a seamless end-to-end integration of systems and applications.

Graduate Software Engineer

Oct, 2022 - Sep, 2024

THG

I work with the THG Procurement team to enhance, upgrade, and assist end users with new and existing features of procurement such as Requisitions, Orders, Invoices, GIA, Delivery Bookings, Receipting Process etc. My responsibilities include backend development using Java and Spring Boot, incorporating asynchronous processing. I've also designed responsive user interfaces using Angular, TypeScript, and Bootstrap. Additionally, I'm on 24-hour call for addressing outages and resolving issues swiftly. I place a strong emphasis on test-driven development, adhering to agile principles, and I create thorough unit and integration tests to guarantee code quality and resilience. Furthermore, I actively engage with multiple teams to ensure a seamless end-to-end integration of systems and applications.

Technical Support Analyst

May, 2022 - Sep, 2022

Books Express Limited

Continuing my previous placement year job with the same role and responsibilities but in part time basis.

Technical Support Analyst

September, 2021 - May, 2022

Books Express Limited

It's a full time contract role and accredited as a placement year with my MSc degree. This job includes the following responsibilities:
- Software integration with e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Linnworks, EBay, Shopify, Repricer.com and Keepa.com. This will include API testing, development and deployment.
- Maintaining and enhancing stock data integrity including integration with the WMS (Warehouse Management System) to support book orders and stock taking workflow.
- Contributing to further automation of the established publishing program. Will involve handling of title Meta data, book creation and formatting for print and eBook editions.
- Responding to technical support requests from end users and of computers and software applications.
- Training and supporting warehouse staff to work with Linnworks and other software, writing support documentation and instructions where necessary.

IT Support Assistant

April, 2021 - August, 2021

Books Express Limited

It was a part-time job. The main responsibility was to give IT support to the end user. Also initiate and monitoring the internal network.

Lecturer

May, 2018 - October, 2020 (On Study Leave)

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

North East University Bangladesh

The main responsibility is to teach assigned courses in Computer Science & Engineering department at North East University Bangladesh. Furthermore, plan and prepare appropriately the assigned courses and lectures by following the syllabus.

Courses Taught

• CSE 113: Introduction to Computer Applications
• CSE 131: Data Structure
• CSE 132: Data Structure Lab
• CSE 211: Object Oriented Programming Language
• CSE 212: Object Oriented Programming Language Lab
• CSE 223: Theory of Computation
• CSE 325: Computer Networking
• CSE 326: Computer Networking Lab
• CSE 113: Structured Programming Language
• CSE 114: Structured Programming Language Lab
• CSE 313: Database System
• CSE 314: Database System Lab
• CSE 311: Computer Architecture
• CSE 300: Project Work II
• CSE 413: Web Engineering
• CSE 414: Web Engineering Lab

Web Developer

February, 2018 - July, 2018

Veechi Technology

It was a remote job. The main responsibility was the accomplishment of the assigned task within the given time. I had completed a full online delivery system using different web technologies.

University of Hertfordshire

October, 2020 - September, 2022

MSc Advanced Computer Science with Placement

North East University Bangladesh (NEUB)

May, 2014 - April, 2018

B.Sc. (Engg.) in Computer Science & Engineering

Madan Mohan College

Session: 2011 - 2012

Higher Secondary School

Pashchim Sadar High School & College

Session: 2009 - 2010

Secondary School

Champion

Rescue Robot Competition

Techhunt 2017

It was an interesting competition where the participant had to build a robot to rescue a hostage from a room by disposing of a bomb. It was a national competition hosted by the Computer Science & Engineering department of North East University Bangladesh. A total of 30 teams participated from different institutions all over Bangladesh.

4th Position

Sumo Robot Fight

SUST CSE Carnival 2017

Robot-sumo, or pepe-sumo, is a sport in which two robots attempt to push each other out of a circle (in a similar fashion to the sport of sumo). In this competition, the participant had to build an autonomous robot to meet the challenge.

2nd Runner Up

International Robotics Challenge

Techfest 2016-17, IIT Bombay

It was a challenging competition where the participant had to build two robots, one is autonomous and another is human controlled. The autonomous robot had to solve a grid and generate the optimum path to solve the challenge and it also had to help the human-controlled robot to overcome its challenge. It was an international competition consisting of 8 country participation. Besides, that for participating the final round, we had faced the regional round in Bangladesh and got the first position.

Champion

Youth Innovation Competition

Solve-A-Thon, Sylhet Divisional Round 2016

In this competition, participant had to propose an idea with a prototype based on some predefined criteria. It was a divisional competition comprising participants all over Sylhet.

5th Position

Top Ten Young Innovator

Sylhet Digital Innovation Fair 2016

In this competition, the participant had to propose an idea to enhance the services of the government web portal.

2nd Runner Up

Robo Fight

SRC Robo-fight competition 2016

Robot combat is a form of robot competition in which two or more custom-built machines use varied methods of destroying or disabling the other. It was a national competition hosted by Southern University Bangladesh.

Champion

Software Exhibition

NEUB CSE DAY 2015

It was an intra-department event hosted by the Computer Science & Engineering Society of North East University Bangladesh.

Champion

Project Exhibition

NEUB CSE DAY 2015

It was an intra-department event hosted by the Computer Science & Engineering Society of North East University Bangladesh.

Champion

Programming Contest

NEUB CSE DAY 2015

It was an intra-department event hosted by the Computer Science & Engineering Society of North East University Bangladesh.

Participated

• ACM ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Round Programming Contest, 2017
• National Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC), 2017
• SUST Inter University Programming Contest 2017
• Speed Battle, DUET Techfest, 2017
• RoboMania V4.0, Esonance (IUT), 2017
• ACM ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Round Programming Contest, 2016
• National Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC), 2016
• NSU Cybernauts Programming Contest 2016
• Youth Innovation Competition, Solve-A-Thon, National Round, 2016
• NSU Cybernauts Robotics Contest, 2016
• International Robotics Challenge, Techfest IIT Bombay (Bangladesh Round), 2015-16
• Line Follower Robot Competition, Electro Fair (Leading University), 2015
• ACM ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Round Programming Contest, 2015
• National Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC), 2015
• SUST Inter University Programming Contest 2015
• Participated several online programming contests on Lightoj, Toph, Virtual Judge, Codechef, Codeforces

A Huffman Based Short Message Service Compression Technique Using Adjacent Distance Array

Pranta Sarker and Mir Lutfur Rahman

International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems

International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS) is a peer-reviewed International Journal that currently publishes 6 issues annually. IJCDS journal publishes technical papers, as well as review articles and surveys, describing recent research and development work that covers all areas of computer science, information systems, and computer / electrical engineering.

Method of Adjacent Distance Array Outperforms Conventional Huffman Codes to Decode Bengali Transliterated Text Swiftly

Pranta Sarker and Mir Lutfur Rahman

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology

IJICT is a refereed journal in the field of information and communication technology (ICT), providing an international forum for professionals, engineers and researchers. IJICT reports the new paradigms in this emerging field of technology and envisions the future developments in the frontier areas. The journal addresses issues for the vertical and horizontal applications in this area.

Introduction to Adjacent Distance Array with Huffman Principle: A new Encoding and Decoding Technique for Transliteration Based Bengali Text Compression

Pranta Sarker and Mir Lutfur Rahman

International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE 2020)

ICACIE 2020 focuses on both theory and applications in the broad areas of advanced computing and intelligent engineering. ICACIE is a multidisciplinary conference organized with the objective of bringing together academicians, scientists, researchers from industry, research scholars, and students working in all areas of advanced computing and intelligent engineering. Proceedings of 5th ICACIE 2020 will be published by Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC) series of Springer. This series will be submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services including ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.

A Faster Decoding Technique for Huffman Codes Using Adjacent Distance Array

Mir Lutfur Rahman, Pranta Sarker and Ahsan Habib

International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2019)

International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2019) organized by University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Jahangirnagar University (JU), Bangladesh and South Asian University (SAU), India. Conference Proceedings published in Springer Book Series Algorithms for Intelligent Systems (AIS).

NEUB Result Portal

HTML5, CSS3, W3CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Ajax

This web application is developed considering the result processing system of North East University Bangladesh. I build this website only for practicing purpose and by my own interest during the lockdown of COVID-19 for passing the leisure time.

Extra Oral Dental Aerosol Suction Device

Embedded System

The goal of this project was to develop a system which will be used in dental treatment in COVID-19 pandemic. It will suck the contaminated aerosol from patient mouth and pass it through high efficient (H-13) hepa filter and activated carbon filter under UV-C sterilizations compartment. It will release pure air in the other side ensuring both patient and dentist safety.

2DOF Robotic Arm

Arduino, Forward and Inverse Kinematics, Serial Communication

This 2DOF robotic arm was designed for writing different shapes and characters and it can control via Bluetooth transmission system.

Online Ordering System

HTML5, CSS3, W3CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Ajax and PHP Stripe API

This website designed for handling online table reservation, online order of foods with online paymentmethod. Also control panel for owner and service provider.

Online Electricity Switching

Arduino, java, Socket Programming, Serial Communication

Designed and developed a desktop application using Java & Arduino. It can control the switching system of electrical devices over internet.

Online Shop Management System

HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Ajax and JQuery

Designed and developed a web application for an online shop management system which basic purpose was to made a platform to connect consumer and producer without facing any hassle.

University Result Processing System

HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript

Designed and developed a web application for the result management procedure of a university. This application builds with all the facilities of the controller of the result. Also, it provides flexibility to teachers and students to publish and access the result with a lot of dynamic features.

University Library Management System

HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX

Designed and developed a web application for the library book management procedure of a university. It includes book borrowing service with fee transactions.

Online Voting System

HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX

Designed and developed a web application for the online voting process. This application includes the full process of nomination and candidate verification. It also allows the voter to cast their votes online.

TechHunt 2017

HTML5, CSS3, W3CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX

This website was built for managing the entire TechHunt 2017 event hosted by the Computer Science & Engineering department of North East University Bangladesh. It includes various event participant's registration procedures with online payment and verification.

NEIC Website

HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX

I had developed this website for a client. It was an Islamic center website. This website has a lot of dynamic features to update the contents.

NEUB Store

HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery

I developed this website when I was in the second year of undergrad. I build this website from scratch. The basic purpose of this website is to share different resources such as books, programming codes, lecture notes, questions, etc. Besides that, it includes a blogging site and dynamic CGPA calculator with a prediction system.

Live video recording and streaming on Web

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WebRTC API

It is a part of a web application where users can record live videos on the web and also can watch it live. I developed this web recording and streaming part to deliver my client.

Adorsholipi

HTML, CSS, PHP

I developed this simple web application at the end of the first year of my undergrad. This web application was built for teaching kindergarten students with elementary topics.

Dictionary

HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Ajax

I developed this simple web application at the end of the first year of my undergrad. This web application comprises of B2E and E2B dictionary with POS tagging.

Online Lottery System

Java, MySQL

This application was developed for lottery purposes used by Digital Innovation Fair 2016 (Sylhet Zone). It is a Java-based application which registers users by using their name and mobile numbers and it can select the winner randomly.

• Co-advisor, NEUB Sports Club, 2019-20
• Vice President, NEUB CSE Society, 2017-18
• Organized 10+ Onsite Programming Contest in NEUB, 2015-17
• Taken 20+ ACM workshop in NEUB, 2015-17
• Taken 10+ Software Development Workshop in NEUB, 2015-17
• Taken 10+ Robotics Workshop in NEUB, 2016-17
• Executive Member, NEUB CSE Society, 2015-16
• Set 20+ programming problems in Hacker Rank and Dev Skill
• Solved 500+ programming problems in different online judges (UVA, Virtual Judge, Codeforces, LightOJ etc.)
• Developed 5+ professional websites and softwares for clients