No mentor, no shortcut, and a stubborn refusal to do what was expected. Here's how it actually went.
Product designer, Framer expert and Computer Science Engineer. Country Head of FoxSuite.ai in Bangladesh. Five years in, still building.
Everything below is the long version — where I started, what I learned the hard way, what drives it now, and the places that changed how I think.
Book a call →Born in a small district town in southern Bangladesh. My father taught school; my mother ran the household. The family plan for a bright son was a government job — stable, respectable, the safe answer to every question. I didn't take it.
Before I owned a computer, I was already trying to make software on a device never built for it. That's the whole story in one image: the constraint was never a reason to stop.
I moved to Barishal to study CSE at Global University Bangladesh. My first computer arrived in 2017 — late by any standard in this industry. No mentor, no teacher who redirected me, no relative already in tech.
I learned graphic design that year and got good enough, fast enough, to start mentoring others while still learning myself. Then WordPress customisation — real sites, real clients, real constraints. Those two things pulled me toward product design.
A citizen-protection mobile app for the police force. Never published. I still count it, because it was the first time design meant responsibility rather than decoration.
Websites, ERP systems, dashboards and business applications. Top Gear Automobiles, Rabbil.com, a garments management system, accounting software. Real deadlines, no safety net.
For two seasons, I organised Artisanal Convergence in Barishal — bringing the design community together in a city that rarely gets its own events. We ended it after those two seasons, but the point stayed with me: design careers do not only happen in Dhaka.
My first enterprise-scale product: thousands of interface states, real operational data, workflows where a bad decision costs somebody their whole working day. It's what separates designers who decorate from designers who think.
I delivered 30+ client products across Canada and North America — education, industrial manufacturing, legal, fitness, jewellery and eCommerce. Volume at that pace only works with systems, so I built them.
I now lead product design across an AI business platform — UX strategy, product vision, the design system, and the company's growth in Bangladesh.
That didn't come from a book or a mentor. It came from getting burned — shipping things that looked good and helped nobody.
An unshipped product earns nothing. I'd rather launch something honest and imperfect than polish something nobody has touched.
I run a live mentorship cohort — 20 classes, beginner to portfolio-ready. The structure I wish someone had handed me at nineteen.
Organised Artisanal Convergence in Barishal for two seasons, 2023 and 2024. IT Executive at SNDC Bangladesh, and formerly at Barishal Blood Donors Club.
Enterprise systems taught me details compound. A confusing screen costs someone an hour every day, forever.
I organised Artisanal Convergence for two seasons — a design community event in Barishal, a city that rarely gets its own. Speakers, students, and a room full of people who assumed design careers only happened in Dhaka. We ended it after the second season, but it did what it needed to do.
Running it taught me something client work doesn't: how to hold a room, and how much talent sits outside the capital waiting for a reason to start.
Kuala Lumpur, hosted at Asia Pacific University. Design careers stall where someone can produce good work but can't defend it in a room full of stakeholders. That's the skill I was recognised for — and the one clients actually pay for.
Three countries so far. Each one taught me something a screen never could — that assumptions about how people use things stop travelling well the moment you cross a border.
The trip that made the region feel navigable instead of distant. Mountains, and a long way from a district town in Barishal.
Seeing infrastructure built at that pace resets what you think is possible — and how small a constraint really is.
The Global Leadership Summit, Genting Highlands above the clouds, Thean Hou Temple, and a design field trip to Immersify. Came home with the Best Argument Award.
These are not postcard stops for me. They are references I carry back into product work — scale from China, discipline from Malaysia, and the small visual details that make unfamiliar places feel instantly readable.
First stamp on the passport.
Scale looks different up close.
Came home with the award.
Above the clouds.
Details everywhere you look.
A design field trip.
Street art, texture, and old-city details.
The room that changed the year.
So the work always gets my full attention. If you're building something and it's moving slower than your ambition, book a call — thirty minutes, no pitch.
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