Asadul Islam
Senior Software Engineer at LightBox
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAsadul Islam is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and deploying production-grade ML systems, currently at LightBox in Toronto. He specializes in NLP and combinatorial optimization, with 6+ years focused on automated grammatical error correction, semantic similarity, and text classification, and has productionized over ten models across Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and serving stacks. He has designed end-to-end data and production pipelines using cloud and messaging technologies (AWS/GCP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker, FastAPI), blending research rigor from a Computing Science MSc with practical engineering at startups and enterprise teams. A former lecturer and research assistant, he brings strong algorithmic foundations in C/C++ and Java alongside modern ML tooling, and he actively supports diversity as Co-Chair of a People of Color ERG. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic implementer who converts complex research into reliable, scalable services while mentoring teams to raise delivery quality.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computing Science, Master's degree Computing Science at University of AlbertaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology
English, Bengali
Github Skills (90)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
deep-learning10
ml10
neural-network10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
data-science10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
neural-machine-translation10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mdasadul/Java
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:55 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
mdasadul/leetcode
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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