Work Experience | Fahim Shahriar Khan
The University of Texas at Arlington — Arlington, Texas
Graduate Research Assistant · Part-time · May 2025 – Present
- Focus areas: Big Data Management, Big Data Mining, Graph ML.
Graduate Teaching Assistant · Aug 2024 – May 2025
- Assisted in grading assignments and exams.
- Provided mentorship and support to students.
- Courses:
- CSE 1310 — Introduction to Computers & Programming (Spring 2025)
- CSE 3330 — Database Systems and File Structures (Fall 2024)
Strativ AB — Dhaka, Bangladesh
Software Engineer (AI) · Full-time · Dec 2023 – Jul 2024
- Developed chatbot assistants by building custom RAG pipelines with LLMs, NLP, and vector databases.
- Co-developed the backend for a SaaS platform using Django REST Framework, enabling multiple companies to onboard and access customized chatbot services.
REVE Systems — Dhaka, Bangladesh
Software Engineer — Machine Learning · Aug 2023 – Dec 2023
- Built a training pipeline that augments audio data in real time using Redis and inter-process communication.
- Deployed a production speech-to-text inference pipeline:
- Scalable serving with Triton Inference Server.
- Converted PyTorch models to ONNX for faster inference.
- Containerized and deployed with Docker.
- Helped create a streaming service using overlapping audio chunks, reducing reliance on VAD.
Jr. Software Engineer — Machine Learning · Jul 2022 – Jul 2023
- Bengali Speech-to-Text (STT) — Government project
- Data Analysis: analyzed crowdsourced speech data to guide model training.
- Model Development: ASR models, speech-to-phoneme; phoneme-to-text seq2seq; punctuation restoration.
- Deployment: hosted multiple inference APIs with FastAPI.
Machine Learning Engineering Intern · Jun 2022 – Jul 2022
- Learned transformer architectures; worked with PyTorch and sentence-transformers for similarity.
- Question Answer Management System (QAMS) for the Parliament of Bangladesh:
- Implemented sentence-transformer embeddings + cosine similarity to flag near-duplicate questions.
- Added a Word Mover’s Distance module to further filter similar questions.