Asif Ihtemadul Haque
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Software Engineer & Research Student @ UWO

MSc research student working on machine learning for bioinformatics, while staying deeply interested in systems, backend engineering, and the craft of building reliable software

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Focus and publications

Research

Selected work

Projects

Jul 2025

TubeCast

Turn YouTube channels into personal podcast shows. Listen to YouTube content ad-free in your favourite podcast app with the display off, and share your cloud-hosted shows with loved ones, all for free.

Go / TUI / RSS / yt-dlp / Docker / Internet Archive

  • Terminal App
  • Developer Tool
  • Media Pipeline
Code Demo Feed Install
Feb 2025

Distributed Lock Service

A fault-tolerant distributed locking service built from scratch in Go, using Raft consensus to replicate lock state, recover from leader failure, and coordinate concurrent clients safely.

Go / Raft / RPC / WebSockets / HTTP

  • Distributed Systems
  • Consensus
  • Fault Tolerance
Code
Jun 2025

Compression Engine

A lossless compression engine built from scratch in Go, with custom Huffman, LZSS, DEFLATE, and Gzip implementations exposed through file and HTTP workflows.

Go / Huffman Coding / LZSS / DEFLATE / Gzip

  • Compression
  • Algorithms
  • Systems
Code

Work and research

Experience

Jan 2025 - Apr 2026

Graduate Teaching Assistant / Western University

Ontario, Canada

  • Instructed and graded students in course content covering Software Tools and Systems Programming, Information Systems and Design, and Specification, Testing and Quality.
  • Systems Programming
  • Software Engineering
  • Quality Assurance
Jan 2025 - Present

Research Scholar / Western University

Ontario, Canada

  • Researching machine learning and AI approaches for forecasting environmental embeddings to improve crop performance prediction under the supervision of Dr. Mike Domaratzki.
  • Designing reproducible ML experiments and evaluating model generalization across regions and seasons.
  • Building data pipelines and tooling to support large-scale environmental datasets.
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Machine Learning
  • Research
Jun 2024 - Dec 2024

Software Engineer L2 / Chaldal

Bangladesh

  • Built a customer lifecycle state machine to identify high-propensity buyers, delivering higher contact-to-order conversion and faster time-to-first-contact.
  • Developed a type-safe workflow in F# and TypeScript, cutting change-related defects and accelerating delivery.
  • Orchestrated cross-service cron and RPC with idempotency; deployed on Service Fabric.
  • F#
  • TypeScript
  • Service Fabric
  • C#
  • Backend

Tools and technologies

Skills

Languages

Golang / C/C++ / Python / Java / JavaScript / F# / C# / TypeScript

Frameworks & Web

React / Nextjs / Django

Distributed Systems & Backend

.NET / Service Fabric / gRPC

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS / Terraform / Docker

Developer Tools

Git / Bash / Assembly

Soft Skills

Critical thinking / Collaboration / Ownership

Academic background

Education

2025 - Aug 2026

MSc in Computer Science / Western University

I am currently pursuing my MSc in Computer Science at Western University, where I work with Dr. Mike Domaratzki on machine learning methods for representing future environmental conditions in crop performance prediction.

Selected coursework

Distributed Systems

Studied distributed-system design through Martin Kleppmann's and Andrew Tanenbaum's books. For the course project, I built a distributed lock service from scratch using the Raft consensus algorithm.

Image Compression

Explored different compression techniques out of a strong interest in how expert software engineers optimize compression engines for specific data-transfer requirements.

Reinforcement Learning

Studied reinforcement-learning methods including Q-learning and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO).

Machine Learning and Cybersecurity

Studied different classes of cyberattacks and how machine-learning methods can support cybersecurity, anticipating the growing importance of this area.

Completed June 2024

BSc in Computer Science and Engineering / Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

I completed my undergraduate degree at BUET. That is where I built much of my foundation in algorithms, programming, systems, and the kind of problem solving that still shapes how I work today.

Contact

Get in touch

Open to research collaborations, graduate opportunities, and software engineering roles.

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