Afjal Hossain
Staff Software Engineer at Omise
Bangkok, Thailand
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Top SchoolAfjal Hossain is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable fintech and data-driven systems across Southeast Asia, currently leading architecture and delivery at Omise. He blends deep expertise in payments, distributed systems, and ML/NLP—shipping event-driven microservices, in-memory message queues, and models like BERT for document classification and entity detection. His work has improved high-volume transaction latency by an order of magnitude and supported millions of users through resilient, compliant payment integrations. Comfortable across Python, Golang, Java, Kubernetes, and AWS, he also architects large-scale crawling and indexing pipelines using Nutch, Hadoop, and Elasticsearch. Beyond production engineering, he has reduced annotation needs via zero-shot classification and built ML tooling that meaningfully boosts product engagement. Based in Bangkok, he combines hands-on coding with agile leadership to turn complex domain constraints into operational, high-performance systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
English, Bangla
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Github Skills (4)
bengali7
nlp6
embedding6
natural-language-processing5
Github contributions (5)
smafjal/Bengali-Word-Embedding
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
nlpword-embeddingnatural-language-processingbengaliembedding
smafjal/PaperLessExmSystem
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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