Open to partnerships and speaking
Community & Program Manager based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
I design and run free technology programs for students across Bangladesh. As organizer of Machine Learning Bangladesh, a volunteer AI community of 7,000+ members, I led 11 hackathons across five cities in 2026 with MLH, Google for Developers and the Gemma team.
evan@dhaka:~$ stats --since 2020
community members 7,000+
events hosted 42
hackathons 2026 11 in 5 cities
people reached 4,000+
countries visited 7
evan@dhaka:~$
In partnership with
Hackathons, Kaggle competitions and community programs, with the outcomes each delivered. Most were volunteer-run and free to every participant.
A hybrid hackathon at United International University, part of Google DeepMind's global Build with Gemma series. Delivered on a one-week planning timeline, judged on Kaggle, with a prize pool funded by the Gemma team and hosted with the IEEE Computer Society UIU chapter. Six tracks covered problems like Bangla-language access, rural healthcare and offline study tools.
ML Bangladesh's first in-person hackathon series, supported by MLH and Google for Developers: a free one-day format that takes students from workshop to deployed project. Editions ran at UITS, DIU, Rajshahi University, SEU, RUET, Bangladesh Agricultural University and the EMK Center, followed by Hacktoberfest editions in Dinajpur and Dhaka. I also served on the judging panel at UITS.
A one-day hackathon for students at Asian University for Women in Chattogram, co-organized by ML Bangladesh and HerWILL. I served on the judging panel. The winning team, HerFinance, was covered by The Daily Star and The Business Standard.
A national round of Google's worldwide ML Olympiad, co-hosted with GDG Dhaka, challenging participants to predict per-capita CO₂ emissions for 2030. It concluded with a two-day finale at UIU and is featured on the Google Developers Blog, which names me as host.
A forecasting competition on PM2.5 air pollution across Bangladeshi cities. Notebook-only submissions with documented reasoning filtered out unedited AutoML and LLM templates, so the rankings reflect genuine modelling work.
A youth-led nonprofit working on the Sustainable Development Goals. Its programs include CS Ed Week 2025 in Rangpur and Ushnota Abhijan 2025, a winter-clothing drive that became an emergency response to the Karail slum fire. ML Bangladesh operates within its STEM portfolio.
From one district in Rangpur to national programs, 2020 to 2026.
Pirganj, Rangpur
Became a Google Crowdsource Influencer, hosting training events and onboarding new contributors.
Rangpur
Led the AngelHack Campus Hub at my college, taught programming online with Codecademy Chapters, and was named a Crowdsource Community Champion.
Dhaka
Joined Google Developer Group Dhaka as an Ambassador and started facilitating #IAmRemarkable workshops.
Dhaka · North Bengal
Started TFUG North Bengal, today ML Bangladesh. Founded UniDevs, began computer science at UIU and became GDG Dhaka's Communications Lead.
Dhaka → Cedar Rapids, Iowa
ML Olympiad drew 353 entrants, the community was renamed Machine Learning Bangladesh, and a CCI scholarship took me to Iowa.
Cedar Rapids → Dhaka
Received the Platinum Eagle Leadership Award and made the Dean's List at Kirkwood. Back in Dhaka, I founded Cedar Initiative and placed 3rd in the CICA AI Art Competition.
Five cities · Moscow
Seven Build With AI Hack Days, two Hacktoberfest editions, Build With Gemma and Tech For Her, plus a second Kaggle competition on Dhaka's air quality. In October, I joined Bangladesh's 19-member delegation to the Global Digital Forum in Moscow.
Six years of community leadership alongside roles in startups, nonprofits and economic development.
Machine Learning Bangladesh
Sep 2023 – Present · Dhaka
Cedar Initiative
Sep 2025 – Present · Bangladesh
Google Developer Group Dhaka
Aug 2023 – May 2026
Previously Ambassador, Nov 2022 – Aug 2023.
CMX
Current
UniDevs
Dec 2023 – Present
Google Crowdsource
Jul 2020 – Dec 2024
Early-stage startup (stealth)
Jan 2026 – Jun 2026
Elevate Pay (YC W22)
Sep 2025 – Nov 2025 · Remote
American Red Cross
Feb 2025 – May 2025 · Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance
Dec 2024 – Apr 2025 · Iowa
Led the AngelHack Campus Hub at Government Shah Abdur Rouf College.
Aug 2021 – Nov 2022
Ran online programming workshops for students in rural Rangpur.
Nov 2021 – Nov 2022
Self-advocacy workshops, online and in Dhaka.
2022 – Apr 2026
Kirkwood Community College: campus campaigns and the Earth Week Scavenger Hunt.
2024 – 2025
Virtual exchange. Designed a smart waste-management concept with teammates from the US and Iraq.
U.S. Department of State
Scholarships, leadership honours and coverage of the programs I've run.
Names me in the 19-member Bangladeshi delegation to the second Global Digital Forum in Moscow.
Also in The Business Standard.
Lists the CO₂ Emissions Prediction Challenge and its hosts.
Computer science in Dhaka, project management in Iowa, and seven countries since 2022.
2023 – 2029 (expected)
B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering, Dhaka
Aug 2024 – May 2025
Certificate in Project Management, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Community College Initiative scholar. Dean's List, GPA above 3.33, 75.5 hours of community service.
2019 – 2022
Higher Secondary Certificate, Science, Rangpur
Bengali (native) · English (fluent) · Hindi (conversational)
7 countries, 8 trips since 2022
Re:Hackathons, community programs, partnerships, sponsorships or speaking
Whether it's a partnership, a sponsorship or a speaking invitation, email is the fastest way to reach me.