Samshad Rahman
Microsoft Senior Advisor at Best Buy Canada
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSamshad Rahman is a versatile software engineer with 10 years of experience who blends dual master’s training in Applied Statistics and Computer Science to build data-driven backend systems and ML-enabled pipelines. Currently a Microsoft Senior Advisor at Best Buy Canada, he has a track record of shipping production FastAPI microservices, scalable ETL jobs, and cloud deployments on AWS/GCP with containerization and CI/CD. His background spans utility-scale data integrity work for national power sectors, NLP and resume-matching systems that boosted model F1 substantially, and bespoke web-scraping architectures for behavioral research. Comfortable moving between hands-on Python engineering, LLM fine-tuning, and statistical analysis, he surfaces actionable insights from messy data while optimizing reliability for high-volume systems. Based in Halifax, he brings a pragmatic blend of academic rigor and production experience, often favoring simple, benchmarked solutions (e.g., LinearSVC over more complex ensembles) that deliver measurable gains.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Applied Computer Science Computer Science at Dalhousie UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Software Engineering at American International University-BangladeshProfessional Masters in Applied Statistics and Data Science Statistics, Professional Masters in Applied Statistics and Data Science Statistics at Jahangirnagar University
Bangla, English
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
samshad/UVa
Jul 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
samshad/Data_Scrape_Auto_Tinder
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
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