Ataf Fazledin Ahamed

Hi, I am Ataf (he/him), a CSE graduate from Department of CSE, BUET . My key interests lie in the fields of software, systems, and network security. Currently, I’m looking for PhD supervisors for Fall 2025 semester.

My career goal is to pursue a PhD in my field of interests. I’m working with Prof. Anindya Iqbal and Prof. Gias Uddin on a project regarding the effectiveness of static analysis tools in detecting vulnerabilities.

I work as a Software Security Engineer at OpenRefactory . An important part of my work is OpenSSF’s Project Alpha-Omega where we find and fix vulnerabilities in popular open source projects .

During my undergraduate life, I participated in different competitions- CTF, hackathons, etc. My team once became third in Bangladesh National Cyber Drill competition . I enjoy contributing to open source projects. I have contributed to popular projects such as- dapr , kubernetes , google bigquery python , web3.py , django-helpdesk , etc. I have 60+ merged pull requests on GitHub .

I’m an adaptive learner and a hard working person. I have prior leadership experience in academic projects and extra-curricular areas. As a team player, I do my best and over to fulfill the responsibilities given to me. I truly believe that having clear communication among a group is most vital for its success.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology

April 2018 - May 2023

CGPA: 3.50 out of 4.00 (Final Year: 3.75)

Notable Courses:

Higher Secondary Certificate

Notre Dame College, Dhaka

June 2015 - May 2017

GPA: 5.00 out of 5.00 (Talentpool Scholarship)

Research

Interaction and NLP Based Sentiment Analysis of Bangla Food Review in Social Media

Undergraduate Thesis

Supervisor: Dr. Sadia Sharmin (BUET)

GitHub | Draft Paper | Thesis Book

In this study, we collected data from different Facebook pages to analyze the sentiment of social media users regarding food review. For this, we used reactions and comments to analyze the sentiment in two independent ways. This work was submitted to ASONAM 2023.

Devising A Low-Cost and Portable System for Remotely Monitoring Water Quality in Real-Time

CSE316: Microprocessor, Microcontroller, and Embedded Systems Project

Supervisor: Dr. A.B.M. Alim Al Islam (BUET)

GitHub | Draft Paper

Based on our microcontroller project, we wrote a conference paper for our device and its capability to remotely monitor water quality as a cost-effective solution. This work was submitted to NSysS 2021, however it was rejected due to lack of novelty.

Projects

Sastquatch

  • Personal Project
  • Static analysis tool based on CodeQL & Semgrep
  • Contains more than 50+ custom rules
  • Web-based UI to check the scan results (WIP)
  • Source Code

Project Alpha Omega by OpenSSF

  • Find & fix vulnerabilities in top open source GitHub projects
  • Create patches for the bugs, share with maintainers
  • Create POC to demonstrate the vulnerabilties
  • Submit patches through PR, PVR, or email
  • Blog Post, Google Sheet

Convolutional Neural Network Model from Scratch

  • Implemented a CNN model from scratch
  • Developed using numpy only
  • Used the model to detect Bangla Characters
  • Source Code

dCTFd

  • A fork of popular CTF hosting platform called CTFd
  • Developed it for organizing a CTF competition
  • Additional features such as TLS/SSL certificate support for databases, s3 support for other cloud providers
  • Updated scripts for database and s3 connections testing
  • Blog Post , Source Code

Gender Classification from Audio Clips

  • CSE 472 Machine Learning Project
  • Deep learning model capable of identifying the gender of a person from voice
  • Trained on two large datasets (Mozilla Common Voice, Bengali Common Voice Speech)
  • Developed using Tensorflow, Keras
  • Slides , Source Code

EventFly: A Web-based Event Management Tool

  • CSE 408 Software Engineering Project
  • Online event management tool for hosting events
  • Developed using a microservice based architecture
  • Combined group project
  • Slides , Source Code

Cycloan: A Real-time Cycle Sharing Platform

  • CSE 216 Database Project
  • Online cycle sharing platform
  • Backend queries completely written in raw SQL
  • Real time location sharing using Google Maps
  • Presentation Video , Source Code

Work

Software Security Engineer

OpenRefactory Inc.

July 2023 - Present (Full Time)

Fullstack Web Developer

Mindshare Bangladesh

June 2021 - Nov 2021 (Contractual)

Skills

Programming Languages, Frameworks, Databases

Development & Other Tools

Security Tools

Machine Learning Libraries

Extracurricular

President

BUET Entrepreneurship Development Club

May 2022 - May 2023

Vice-President, Co-Founder

BUET Cyber Security Club

Nov 2022 - May 2023

Coordinator, Media & Events

BSADD - BUET System Analysis, Design and Development community

June 2020 - May 2023

Achievements

CV

My latest CV can be found here .