Ananta Akash Podder

anantaakash.podder@gmail.com

I am an experienced Software Engineer specializing in application development, with a strong background in Agile methodologies and Linux. Passionate about advancing industry practices through research, my interests include web development, machine learning, natural language processing and software security. As a dedicated team player, I am committed to continuously improving through collaboration and learning.

Research Experience

Bangla Topic Modeling Techniques and Comparison

Undergraduate Thesis

Supervised By: Mohammad Abdullah Al Mumin

Thesis Title: Bangla Topic Modeling Techniques & Comparison using News Trend Analysis

  • The research focused on developing a topic modeling algorithm for Bangla and using it to extract topics from online news documents (around 288k).
  • The findings of the research are a modified-LDA that works well on Bangla data and a method to find news trends.
  • Fed the Bangla dataset and tuned the hyper-parameters to fit the data and used it to analyze news trends in 9 different categories over the past 5 years.
June 2021

Publication

  • A Systematic Literature Review on English and Bangla Topic Modeling, Journal of Computer Science, 17(1), 1-18. 🔗

    • Education

    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

    Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

    CGPA: 3.72 [out of 4.00]

    Jan 2017 - July 2021

    Higher Secondary Certificate

    Dhaka Residential Model College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    GPA: 5.00 [out of 5.00]

    2014 - 2016

    Work Experience

    Tekarsh | MarginEdge🔗

    Software Engineer
    • Contributed to MarginEdge’s subscription billing system, supporting 10k+ USA restaurants, by provisioning cloud infrastructure via AWS CDK.
    • Integrated LaunchDarkly🔗 into the CDK project to introduce feature flag mechanism that improved release flexibility and ensured zero-downtime rollbacks during production.
    • Mentored junior developers, fostering knowledge-sharing and acquired proficiency in Agile work culture.
    Frameworks, Tools & OS:
    JavaSpring Boot, ReactJS, AWS CDK (EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, CloudFormation)
    2025 - Present

    Progoti Systems Limited | Tallykhata🔗

    Software Engineer
    Tallykhata Backend
    • Enhanced the external notification system by sending notifications in chunks using Celery and Celery Beat, resulting in a 70% performance improvement for a user base of over 5 million.
    • Helped to establish Robust CI/CD Pipelines in GitLab with Docker & Docker-compose, reducing deployment times, minimizing errors, and enhancing overall development efficiency.
    • Worked on syncing user data from Android Application to Django Backend Server.
    • Integrating third-party APIs and Deploying Django applications using Nginx & Gunicorn.
    • Developed PWA (Progressive Web App) for multiple dynamic URLs for feature called 'Credit Collection Link'.
    Frameworks, Tools & OS:
    Django, Docker, Linux, Celery, Nginx, Gunicorn
    Tallypay Backend
    • Horizontally scaled & containerized Redis Server using Redis Sentinel and HAProxy, deploying a cluster of master nodes and replicas, ensuring high availability & addressing single point of failure.
    • Implemented a publisher-subscriber architecture using Java Spring and RabbitMQ to facilitate eKYC information verification for Tallypay users by the TechOps team.
    • Developed API mechanisms to block/unblock any specific user debit or credit transaction to prevent fraud.
    Frameworks & Tools:
    Spring-Boot, HAProxy, Redis, Rabbit-MQ
    Tallykhata Mobile App
    • Worked on MVVM(Model, View, ViewModel) pattern in Android Application.
    • Worked with Android's Webview & JavaScript Interface to integrate various 3rd party payment system APIs.
    Frameworks & Tools:
    Android SDK, Retrofit
    2021 - 2025

    Skill

    Programming Languages & Essentials

    Java, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML, CSS

    Application Frameworks

    Django, Spring-Boot, ReactJS, FastAPI, Android SDK, Laravel

    DevOps, Cloud and OS

    Linux OS, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, CloudFormation), Jenkins, Ansible

    Tools

    Rabbit-MQ, HAProxy, Nginx, Gunicorn, Celery, Apache JMeter, Mitm Proxy, Git, LaTeX, Wireshark

    Machine Learning Frameworks

    Tensorflow, Langchain, PyTorch, Keras, Pandas, Scikit-learn

    Project

    Youtube Transcript Summarizer using RAG

    Machine Learning & Web Project

    • Built a complete end-to-end application to summarize YouTube videos using transcripts with a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline.
    • Integrated a locally hosted LLM model via Ollama and constructed the RAG pipeline using LangChain to retrieve relevant transcript information and generate context-aware answers.
    • Developed APIs using Django to serve transcript summaries and user queries through backend service interface.
    Tools:
    Langchain, Django, Ollama
    October 2024

    Movie Recommender System

    Machine Learning & Web Project

    • It is a content-based machine learning recommendation model using a dataset of approximately 5000 movies.
    • The dataset was pre-processed and features were extracted using BoW (Bag of words) vectorization technique.
    • The frontend and API was developed in Django framework.
    Tools:
    Pandas, Sklearn, Django
    September 2021

    Redis Replication & High availability with Redis Sentinel

    Docker Project

    • It is a Docker configuration project to run 1 Master & Two Slave Replica instances within a Docker Network & for high availability of these Redis servers, 3 Redis Sentinel Docker instances are used within the same Docker Network.
    • Also, utilized HAProxy as a Layer-4 (Transport Layer) proxy to perform health checks on the master Redis node and consistently route external application clients' requests to the latest master Redis node.
    Tools:
    Redis, Redis-Sentinel, Docker, HAProxy
    January 2024

    Simple Custom Linux Read Driver

    C Project

    • Developed a custom Linux kernel driver to handle user-space read operations, returning a string acknowledgment from kernel space to user space. It is built to gain knowledge about how Linux kernel drivers work inside.
    Tools:
    C, Multipass (for virtualizing the OS)
    August 2024

    p2p Messenger

    Android Project

    • p2p Messenger is an instant messaging Android application that is built using Java socket and has peer‑to‑peer connection architecture in it.
    Tools:
    Android SDK, Java
    November 2019

    E-Learniverse

    Web Project

    • It is a self project to learn & document the learnings of Backend Application frameworks & tools.
    • Containerized the application with the help of Docker & Docker-compose.
    • Used Celery & Celery-Beat for doing asynchronous & periodic tasks in Django.
    • Steps & basic guide to learn & apply Flexbox for basic UI design.
    • Sending one-time, scheduled & bulk android notifications to corresponding demo app
    • Basic Kubernetes has been used to run & scale the web-application for deployment
    Tools:
    Django, Docker, Docker-compose, Celery, Redis, Rabbit-MQ, Kubernetes
    January 2022

    SUST Resource Archive

    Web Project

    • A web application where thesis & research related works are stored & can easily be shared with others for research purpose.
    Tools:
    Laravel, MySql
    January 2021

    ECHO

    Android Project

    • ECHO is a language conversion android app that take a form of language such as text, speech, sign as input and convert them into another form.
    Tools:
    Android SDK, Java
    August 2019

    Programming

    Overall solved 600+ different problems
    • Codeforces: 350+ solves
      🔗
    • Leetcode: 310+ solves
      🔗
    • Vjudge: 250+ solves
      🔗
    • UVa Judge: 80+ solves
      🔗
    • StopStalk: akash_podder🔗
    • HackerRank: akashpodder🔗

    Certification

    • HackerRank Problem Solving (Basic) Certificate 🔗
    • HackerRank Software Engineer Certificate 🔗

    Award

    LICT SUST TECHFEST 2019

    2nd Runner-Up in Software Hackathon held on 19-20th April, 2019 at the event.