About

Hi, I'm Riyad.

I'm a software engineer in Dhaka. I work on large government systems, I do research on AI agents that try to fix failing software, and I make small games that get an idea across.

Omar Faruqe Riyad, smiling, in a checked shirt against a dark background.

01 / The story

Chattogram, Sylhet, Dhaka

I grew up in Chattogram and studied Computer Science and Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet. Since April 2023 I've worked as a software engineer at Dynamic Solution Innovators in Dhaka, on large systems for the government and the public sector. One of them is the data pipeline behind the national voter registration platform, which holds records for nearly 150 million voters.

I also do research. In 2026 I joined Prof. Tianyin Xu's group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a research intern, working on SREGym: a benchmark that tests whether AI agents can find and fix failures in running systems.

Why games

Baper Rasta started on my daily ride to work. I like satire because it makes people laugh at a problem they've stopped noticing. A game goes one step further. You don't just read about the problem; you play it, and then you share it.

That's what I want to keep doing: games about everyday Bangladesh, and games that help a campaign, a cause or a brand say something people remember. Here's how we can work together.

02 / At a glance

The engineering side

Now
Software Engineer, Dynamic Solution Innovators, Dhaka (since April 2023)
Research
Research intern, Prof. Tianyin Xu’s group, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2026)
Also
Full-stack AI engineer, part-time, Altri.ai
Studied
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
Papers
Code generation from Bangla prompts (4th of 32 teams, BLP-2025), commonsense reasoning (SemEval-2024), violence-inciting text in Bangla (BLP-2023)
Talk
“Agentic Software Engineering with Claude Code”, Dynamic Solution Innovators, 21 April 2026
Certified
ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

The full CV, papers and talks are on my academic site.

03 / Away from the screen

Football and photographs

Away from work, my time goes to football and photography. Here are three photographs I like.

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