Arafat Tehsin
Founder at ITKnocks
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolArafat Tehsin is a founder and senior AI leader based in Sydney with over a decade of hands-on experience turning Microsoft-stack AI breakthroughs into measurable business value for retailers, telcos and public-sector clients. As a Microsoft MVP (AI) and former EY solution architect, he combines enterprise-grade agentic AI application development, .NET/Azure craftsmanship, and AI strategy to cut model costs by up to 60% while unlocking new revenue with human-centric AI agents. He mentors founders, chairs community initiatives across Oceania, and champions Responsible AI, bringing a leadership style that blends technical depth with empathy. An active OSS contributor, Arafat improved sentiment analysis middleware in the widely used Bot Builder Community .NET SDK, reflecting his knack for practical ML integrations. He founded Fedorai to scale applied AI consulting and capability-building, and advises startups and industry events to shape the future of AI adoption.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering at Bahria University
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Github Skills (17)
apim10
middleware10
net10
dotnet10
sentiment-analysis10
asp-net10
api10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
adapter7
bot-framework6
azure-bot-service6
chatbot6
azure-cognitive-services6
windows-runtime6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
BotBuilderCommunity/botbuilder-community-dotnet
Aug 2018 - Jun 2021
Part of the Bot Builder Community Project. Repository for extensions for the Bot Builder .NET SDK, including middleware, dialogs, recognizers and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 56 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Arafat primarily contributed to the development of sentiment analysis capabilities within the Bot Builder Community .NET SDK. Their work involved creating and integrating a Sentiment Middleware class, which leverages an external API for sentiment analysis. They updated the Text Analytics API to a newer version, moved configurations, and added the key for sentiment score handling. Furthermore, they also added a sample for the Sentiment Middleware and included modifications to support the sentiment analysis.
dotnetrecognizersbotdialogsadapters
arafattehsin/CognitiveRocket
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
This repository is mainly used for the R&D of the Azure AI, .NET & Power Platform
Contributions:4 reviews, 95 commits, 19 PRs in 5 years 7 months
dotnetazure-aipower-platformcognitive-servicesbots
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