Summary
Abul Faruk is a CFA charterholder and technologist combining 8 years of hands-on experience in high-performance computing, quantitative finance, and distributed ledger projects. As Co‑Founder and Managing Partner at Anchorblock and founder of fintech and mental‑health startups, he has built production-grade systems for trading, DeFi, supply chain and P2P lending while leading teams across DevOps, networking and HPC system design. Proficient in Python and JavaScript with low‑level experience in C/C++, CUDA, Assembly and Rust, he bridges algorithmic research and production engineering to optimize latency-sensitive workloads. His academic background in financial engineering and an MBA underpin a rare mix of quantitative rigor and product-minded entrepreneurship. He’s also deeply interested in the ethical and philosophical implications of technology and applies that perspective when mentoring founders and pitching to investors. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem‑solver who pairs absurdist creativity with optimistic drive to ship complex systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA Finance at Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka
Master of Science - MS Financial Engineering, Master of Science - MS Financial Engineering at WorldQuant University
Higher Secondary Science, Higher Secondary Science at MEH Arif College
Bachelor's degree Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Bachelor's degree Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Hindi, French, Bengali, English