ARYAN RAHMAN

Experience

1. May 2024 - Sep 2025

   Software Engineer I (Full Stack)

   Optimizely

   • Shipped multiple product features and owned the custom URL feature end-to-end across backend and AWS edge infrastructure handling 1M+ requests/day.

   Projects

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     Custom URL Feature: Edge resolver with validation guardrails, monitoring, and safe rollout. [Read More]

2. Dec 2022 - Mar 2024

   Software Engineer II (Frontend)

   GoZayaan

   • Shipped core frontend features and built website builder that scaled SEO traffic from 33k/month to 100k+/month.

   Projects

   • [Open Live Page ↗]

     SEO Content Builder: Internal website builder that accelerated SEO page generation and ranking growth. [Read More]

3. Sep 2021 - Aug 2022

   Software Engineer

   Shotero + YY Design Studio

   • Worked with Koa.js and PostgreSQL while supporting production shipping and deployments.

   Projects

   • Lean Model Canvas Generator: Interactive startup-planning generator built as a practical product experiment. [Visit App]

For more details, go to A Summary of My Work till 2025.

Case Studies

Experience

1. Sep 2025 - Ongoing

   Independent Researcher

   BRAC University

   • Researching self-supervised speech representation learning for low-resource Bengali speech with controlled ablations.

   Projects

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     Speech Representation Learning Notes: Early-stage notes on setup, methodology, and evaluation direction. [Read More]

2. May 2022

   BSc Thesis, Computer Science

   BRAC University

   • Built a lightweight CNN model for Bangladeshi sign language recognition

   Projects

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     Thesis Paper: Full thesis write-up with methodology, model details, and evaluation results. [Link to PDF]

3. 2021 - 2025

   Industry Experience Supporting Research Direction

   GoZayaan + Optimizely

   • Production engineering at scale sharpened debugging, evaluation, and reproducibility habits used in my research workflow.

Case Studies