Dhaka, Bangladesh · UTC+6

Md. Sohel Rana

Founder & CEO @ NerdDevs Ltd · AI & SaaS Architect · Full-Stack Engineer

I’m a software engineer turned entrepreneur with 19+ years in tech. I lead NerdDevs, where a 20+ strong team builds AI-driven products, scalable SaaS and EdTech platforms for clients across Asia, Europe and North America. I don’t just manage projects — I architect them: cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP, LLM pipelines, messaging systems handling millions of texts monthly, and assessment platforms trusted by the world’s biggest certification bodies.

Md. Sohel Rana — AI & SaaS Architect · Full-Stack Engineer
19+ Years in engineering
5M+ Texts/month · US messaging platform
100K+ Users · Genius AI
20+ Engineers led at NerdDevs

01 — Featured Work

Products used by millions

Platforms I’ve architected and shipped — client work and NerdDevs’ own products, from AI assistants and messaging backends to assessment systems trusted by global certification bodies. Some clients stay unnamed; that discretion is part of the engagement.

03 2025 — present

Biddaan — EdTech LMS

Co-founder · Architect

Bangladesh’s localized multi-vendor LMS: educators run their entire teaching business — live classes, courses, exams and payments — from one platform.

  • 1,000+ educators digitizing their business on a multi-tenant architecture
  • Exam engine with question banks, audio questions, negative marking and analytics
  • Offline enrollment and institute management built for local market realities

1,000+ educators onboarded

Multi-tenant SaaSEdTechAssessmentsPayments
04 2014 — 2020

TestReach

Software Architect & Team Lead

Secure online assessment SaaS with remote proctoring — the platform behind high-stakes professional exams worldwide. I architected the core systems and led the engineering team.

  • Trusted by ACCA, British Council and CIPS — millions of exams delivered
  • Load-balanced architecture engineered for exam-day traffic spikes and uptime reliability
  • APIs and third-party integrations for global certification workflows

Millions of exams delivered globally

High-stakes examsRemote proctoringScalability
05 2023 — present

AI Mate

Architecture · NerdDevs product

Consumer AI assistant powered by GPT-5 — human-like chat, content generation and productivity tools across web and mobile.

  • 100K+ downloads with a 4.5★ store rating
  • Live on the App Store, Play Store and web (app.aimate.online)
  • Built and operated end to end as a NerdDevs first-party product

100K+ downloads · 4.5★ rating

GPT-5Consumer AIWeb + MobileSubscriptions
06 2024 — present

NerdCRM

Product architect · NerdDevs SaaS

A fast, focused $4/seat CRM for phone-heavy sales teams — every recorded call auto-attaches to the matching deal and contact by phone-number match.

  • Auto-linked call recording with encrypted storage in private AWS S3, org-scoped data isolation
  • Cold-email sequences with reply detection and a unified inbox threading responses to the right deal
  • Dogfooded daily by NerdDevs’ own sales team — built by operators, not just builders

First-party SaaS, used daily in production

Multi-tenant SaaSCall recordingEmail outreachPaddle
07 2025 — present

DailyHabitz

Architecture · NerdDevs product

iOS habit tracker that solves the week-two drop-off: AI-powered micro-coaching, streak analytics, smart reminders and friend-led accountability challenges.

  • 5.0★ rated on the App Store as a NerdDevs first-party product
  • AI coaching tips personalized to each user’s progress
  • Offline-first with Firebase-backed cloud sync across devices

5.0★ App Store rating

iOSAI coachingFirebaseGamification
08 Client under NDA 2022

Medical Imaging AI Platform

Lead & Cloud Architect

HealthTech platform bringing AI-enhanced diagnostics to medical imaging. I led the cloud architecture: an Azure pipeline processing DICOM/MRI data under strict healthcare-grade security.

  • DICOM/MRI processing pipeline on Azure with private endpoints — no public data paths
  • Infrastructure as code with Bicep; Redis-backed processing workflows
  • Security-first design for sensitive patient imaging data

AI-enhanced diagnostics in production

AzureHealthcare AIDICOM/MRIBicep IaCRedis

02 — Experience

19+ years, from national systems to AI products

Government-scale platforms in Dhaka, database tooling in Stockholm, assessment systems for global certification bodies — and a company of my own.

  1. 2014 — Present Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Founder & CEO / Solution Architect

    NerdDevs Ltd

    • Lead a 20+ member engineering team delivering AI-powered SaaS, EdTech platforms and enterprise applications.
    • Principal engineer for systems involving LLMs, messaging workflows, scheduling and assessments; cloud architecture across AWS, Azure and GCP.
  2. 2020 — Present Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Country Coordinator

    TestReach

    • Liaison between TestReach international teams and Bangladesh operations.
  3. 2014 — 2020 Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Software Architect & Team Lead

    TestReach

    • Architected large-scale assessment systems used by thousands of candidates — APIs, third-party integrations, load balancing and uptime reliability.
  4. 2013 — 2014 Stockholm, Sweden

    Lead Web Developer

    Severalnines AB

    • Built UI modules and REST APIs for ClusterControl, the database cluster management platform.
  5. 2007 — 2012 Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Sr. Software Engineer

    Dohatec New Media

    • Built mission-critical national systems: e-Government Procurement (Ministry of Planning) and the Biometric Voter ID System.

B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering

Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET) · 2003 — 2007

03 — Skills

The stack I build with

Technologies matched to the problem — never the other way around.

AI & Automation

OpenAI GPT-4/5ClaudeDALL·ERAG pipelinesn8n

Frontend

TypeScriptReactNext.jsVue.jsTailwindCSS

Backend

Node.jsExpressPythonDjango / FlaskLaravel / PHP

Databases

MongoDBPostgreSQLMySQLSQL ServerRedis

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EC2 · Lambda · S3 · CloudFront)AzureGCPDigitalOceanDockerJenkins

Mobile & Integrations

FlutterElectronTwilioRevenueCatMailgun / Mailchimp

I don’t just write code — I solve business problems.

TDD and proven design patterns keep products reliable and scalable.

Move fast without breaking quality.

05 — Contact

Let’s build something exceptional together.

Building an AI product, scaling a SaaS, or launching an EdTech platform? I reply within one business day.