Mehedi Khan
I am a final-year undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). My interests are primarily in Distributed Systems, ML Systems and Applied AI - building software that stays correct and cheap under load.
I currently work part-time as an AI Engineer at CreateBud, Inc., and have previously worked as a Backend Engineer at Systemica Institut and a Research Assistant at Sysmodeler.ai on Model-Based Systems Engineering and AI-based SysML generation. On the side, I work as a software consultant and freelance for small and mid-size businesses, and contribute to open source - including a merged PR to Plone.
I’ve competed a few times in my undergraduate years - winning the IEEE ICIP 2025 VIP Cup and the AI Engineering Hackathon (poridhi.io × Brain Station 23). I have tutored university and college students for three years and chaired the technical committee at IEEE CS BUET SBC. Outside engineering I travel, lift and listen to far too much music - I write about all of it. If you want to talk, just shoot me an email!
News
- April 2026 - Joined CreateBud, Inc. as a part-time AI Engineer.
- November 2025 - Joined Sysmodeler.ai as a Research Assistant.
- September 2025 - Team NeuronX won the IEEE ICIP 2025 VIP Cup; presented in Anchorage, Alaska.
- May 2025 - Became Technical Committee Chair, IEEE Computer Society BUET SBC.
- April 2025 - Champions, AI Engineering Hackathon (poridhi.io × Brain Station 23).
- December 2024 - Joined Systemica Institut as a Backend Engineer.
- September 2024 - Top 10 finalist, Therap JavaFest 2024.
Education
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Bachelor of Science (BSc. Engg.) in Computer Science and Engineering [November 2022 - May 2027 (expected)]Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) · Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Notable Courses: Machine Learning; Compiler; Operating System; Computer Networks; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Architecture; Microprocessors, Microcontrollers & Embedded Systems; Data Structures & Algorithms; Database; Theory of Computation; Software Engineering; Digital Logic Design; Data Communication; Information Systems Development & Management; Signals & Linear Systems; Probability & Statistics
- Other Courses: CS50X, CS50W, CS50AI
Research
Real-Time Multimodal Drone Detection, Tracking and Payload Classification
Team NeuronX won the IEEE ICIP 2025 VIP Cup among 40+ international teams, building fusion pipelines for real-time multimodal (RGB + infrared) drone detection, tracking and payload classification under fog, occlusion and thermal-contrast gaps. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, with graduate tutor Asib Rahman.
- My undergraduate thesis explores citation faithfulness in LLMs, using reinforcement learning and inference-time methods - rather than further training - to make models more faithful to their cited sources while keeping compute costs down.
- Beyond that, my research interests lie in ML systems and distributed systems.
Work Experience
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AI Engineer [April 2026 - Present]CreateBud, Inc. · Remote
- Working part-time as an AI Engineer at a funded US startup building an AI-literacy residency program for high school students.
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Research Assistant [November 2025 - February 2026]Sysmodeler.ai · Remote
- Worked on novel research problems in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and AI-based SysML generation.
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Backend Engineer [December 2024 - July 2025]Systemica Institut · Remote
- Built a scalable and reliable File Processing API with Python and FastAPI - Design document
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Software Consultant [2023 - Present]
- Consult and build software for small and mid-size businesses.
- Clients include Netra News, Rantir, ChaarChakka etc.
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Open Source Contributor [2023 - 2024]
- Contributed to Apache Seata, Open edX, Plone and others - see GitHub
Achievements
IEEE ICIP 2025 VIP Cup - Champions
Team NeuronX - me, Abrar Zahin Raihan, Sadik Mahmud Shakshor, Sadman Sakib and Ruwad Naswan - won the IEEE ICIP 2025 VIP Cup among 40+ international teams, building fusion pipelines for real-time multimodal (RGB + infrared) drone detection, tracking and payload classification under fog, occlusion and thermal-contrast gaps. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, with graduate tutor Asib Rahman. I presented our solution live at ICIP 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska.
AI Engineering Hackathon - Champions
Team BUET XFACTOR won the AI Engineering Hackathon (poridhi.io × Brain Station 23) among 86 teams and 300+ participants, building a multilingual intent-based search system with a 500ms average response time - without a GPU, using only half the provided compute (10 of 20 VMs) via in-memory llama.cpp inference and 4-bit quantization.
Therap JavaFest 2024 - Top 10 Finalist
Top 10 finalist among 1300+ participants at Therap JavaFest 2024 with Mustafa Muhaimin, building a Spring Boot mentorship platform - session booking, real-time chat, payment integration, and AI-powered mentor matching via Recombee and ChatGPT. Invited to present at the grand finale at Therap BD Limited headquarters.
Skills
Projects
Live Election Monitoring System
Systems, backend and infrastructure lead for Netra News' live election monitoring platform covering Bangladesh's 2026 national election - 300 constituencies, ~43,000 polling stations. Built as a static Next.js site using Incremental Static Regeneration, triggered by authenticated webhooks on each result entry, backed by a FastAPI monolith and a PostgreSQL primary/replica pair with two-layer connection pooling. Deployed on a DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster behind Cloudflare (WAF, DDoS protection, Tunnels in place of a load balancer). Served roughly 8 million requests at 100% uptime for about $335 in infrastructure cost for the month.
Compiler
A full compiler for a subset of C, built for CSE310: Compiler Design. Complete pipeline - Flex lexical analysis, ANTLR4 parsing, a custom C++ symbol table, semantic analysis and intermediate-code generation via ANTLR visitors - down to x86 assembly that runs on EMU8086 and DOSBox.
Vehicle Buy/Sell Platform
A buy/sell marketplace for new and used vehicles, built for a client with a friend - I owned the entire backend. Django REST Framework, React and TypeScript, JWT auth, hosted on DigitalOcean; continuous client revisions were a good lesson in production-grade scaling and client handling.
Treasure Hunt Organizer
A platform for organizing treasure hunts - teams, puzzles, real-time leaderboards and announcements. Built with Django REST Framework, React and TypeScript; my first SaaS product and my first app used by many people concurrently, which meant learning production-level debugging under real load.
Clothing Store
An online store for a local clothing brand with payment integration (SSLCommerz) and three-layer authorization. Django REST Framework, React, JWT auth, tailwindCSS - the two hardest parts were the payment integration and the multi-layer auth.
Extracurricular Activities
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Technical Committee Chair [May 2025 - May 2026]IEEE Computer Society BUET Student Branch Chapter · Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Helped arrange various technical events and competitions.
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Mentoring
- Tutor students across a range of subjects and curricula, alongside my professional and academic commitments.
- University level: Data Structures & Algorithms, STL in C++, and core Java.
- Secondary and higher secondary level: Physics and Mathematics under the Bangladeshi national curriculum, as well as the Cambridge, Canadian and Australian international curricula.