Ahsan.Iqbal
Open to remote AI engineering rolesDhaka · UTC+6 · any time zone

I build multi-agent harnesses that do real work and show their sources.

I'm the Founding AI Engineer at BuildMarshal, where I build Marshal, a set of agents behind one orchestrator that read a team's email, meetings and tens of thousands of documents, answer with page-level citations, read CAD/BIM drawings and LiDAR scans, and act only after a person approves.

Multi-agent orchestrationCited RAGAgent memoryHuman-in-the-loop actionsCAD/BIM & LiDARLLM cost engineering
CV (PDF) LinkedIn
Now
  • Building Marshal, plus AutoDroid on the side
  • Writing Deep Agents, from the inside, a series on LangChain's agent harness
  • Reading The Order of Time · The Brain Electric
Harness engineering

Agents that read everything, cite everything, and wait for a yes

A harness is everything around the model, from orchestration and retrieval to memory, tools, approvals and cost control. That layer is where a domain product beats a generic chatbot.

Founding AI Engineer · BuildMarshal Technology Corp. · Oct 2025 to now · remote

Marshal

A multi-agent harness for project managers in construction and prefab. Many action agents and read/write services sit behind one orchestrator, on web, iPhone and Mac. Nothing changes until a person approves.

PythonLangGraphOpenAI APIPostgreSQLpgvectorDoclingAzure
buildmarshal.ai
Ambient processing

Email, documents and meeting recordings read in the background, matched to projects, classified, with respond-by dates.

Cited RAG

Vector, keyword and knowledge-graph search. Each citation opens the exact PDF page or drawing. No citation, no claim.

Approval cards

Tasks, reply drafts and schedule changes arrive as cards with iPhone push. Writes never run twice.

Agent memory

A nightly consolidation cycle refreshes memory for every project, person and vendor.

CAD/BIM, LiDAR, photos

DXF, IFC and STEP read as rooms and prefab lists, plus LiDAR room scans and GPS-matched site photos.

Cost engineering

Small-model skip gates, deduplication, batch APIs and capped structured outputs.

Other builds

Android · no-codebuilding

AutoDroid

An Android app builder that runs entirely on the phone, for people who don't code. Apps are data executed by one runtime inside the app.

Androidon-device
Physical AIearly

Universal drone harness

One harness for open-source flight hardware, covering Pixhawk 6X/6C and CUAV V6X, Jetson Orin Nano Super or Rock 5B+, Livox Mid-360 LiDAR and UWB positioning.

physical AIedge
iOS · language learningbuilding

Intuye

An iPhone app for learning Spanish from your own life. Say a sentence in English or Spanglish and get Spanish that keeps your structure. It listens along, then hands you short word batches from the scenes you were in and the words you keep missing.

iOSDeep Agents
Developer toolsprototype

Mobile coding platform

Write, run and deploy live websites from an iPhone. Visitors can connect their own Gmail or Slack, and generated code runs apart from the part that holds their tokens.

iOSlive deploy
Civiclive

nagorik.one

Maps and charts for Bangladesh election results with year-on-year comparison and map swipe. Built in about two days.

GISdata viz
Earlier AIshipped

Vision and satellite ML

YOLOv4 traffic analytics with a custom CNN for local vehicles, and Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 models for crop yield and road surveys.

PyTorchSageMaker
Podcast · in Bangla

The Technologist

A long-form show on The Gist about AI, technology policy and startups. Guests have ranged from engineering managers at Amazon to the interim government's Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for Posts, Telecommunications and ICT. YouTube channel.

Reels and trailers

In publication order.

Writing and teaching

Explaining harnesses, from slides to source code

Two series that open up how agent harnesses work, a book on production RAG, and posts, many in Bangla for engineers in Bangladesh.

Harness Engineering series and the Retrieval Engineering book

Harness Engineering is an image-post series in English and Bangla for beginners. Retrieval Engineering is now a book on production RAG.

Posts

Long-form articles live under Writing. Most LinkedIn posts are in Bangla, with titles translated.

Leadership & partners

Ten years of national systems, teams and stakeholders

Before agents, I led engineering on public systems used across the country, and did the writing and stakeholder meetings that keep them funded.

10+engineers led at Tiller
~6 yrson e-GP, Bangladesh's largest government web service
1M+government tenders on e-GP
100K+e-GP users

Software Architect · Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead)

Sep 2022 to Oct 2025
Tiller · Dhaka · architect from Jun 2024
  • Led a team of 10+ engineers on microservice, AI/ML and GIS platforms for government and donors.
  • Led the National Sanitation Dashboard for DPHE, funded by the Gates Foundation, and integrated it with the Citywide Inclusive Sanitation hub.
  • Wrote the procurement, reporting and grant documents that secured funding from AIT-GWSC, ITN-BUET and the Gates Foundation, and ran stakeholder meetings with government and donors.
  • Member of the Technical Assistance Group for Data (TAG'D) Bangladesh, aligning city corporations, municipalities, donors and universities on data governance.
  • Built a GIS appraisal platform for the Ministry of Planning (GIZ), aggregating data from 30+ government agencies.
Asian Water Awards 2026 · Water Technology Excellence (Digital Technology)

Won by SPDSSB, the sanitation data programme behind the dashboard my team built and scaled.

Senior Software Engineer · Software Engineer

Oct 2016 to Aug 2022
Dohatec New Media · Dhaka · e-GP for BPPA, funded by the World Bank

e-GP is Bangladesh's largest government web service, with hundreds of thousands of users and over a million tenders run end to end.

  1. Publish tender
  2. Pre-tender meeting
  3. Opening
  4. Evaluation
  5. Award
  6. Contract management
  • Led International Competitive Bidding, the country's first international government e-procurement, with tenders often above USD 10 million.
  • Built the National Tenderers' Database, Contract Management and Audit modules (Java, Spring, MS SQL Server).
  • One of two lead developers who designed e-GP's move from a monolith to microservices.

Clients and funders of projects I delivered

Gates FoundationWorld BankGIZAsian Institute of TechnologyDPHEBPPAMinistry of Planninga2iITN-BUET

Speaking, teaching and community

Host, The Technologist

Five long-form episodes with founders, engineers and policymakers.

Founder & Organiser, Dhaka AI Paper Club

A research reading community for AI engineers in Bangladesh and the diaspora.

Trainer, Bangladesh Institute of Management

Generative AI tools for government policymakers.

Judge, Brain Station 23 × Poridhi

AI Engineering Hackathon 2025.

Credentials

Certifications, education and papers

Education

2015

B.Sc. Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering

Khulna University, Bangladesh

Publications

Dec 2025

Sanitation Data Reformation in Bangladesh: Challenges, Coordination Mechanisms, and Sustainable Solutions

IWA Water and Development Congress, AIT Thailand. With the Gates Foundation and DPHE.

Jan 2026

AI-Assisted Prognostic Classification in Breast Cancer Using Deep Neural Networks

7th ICMCSI, Purvanchal University, Nepal.

May 2016

Smart Home Appliance Control System for Physically Disabled People Using Kinect and X10

ICIEV 2016, IEEE Xplore.

IEEE
Beyond work

500+ books and 120 game campaigns

Reading

Goodreads holds only recent reads (77). Tin Goyenda alone was 50+ books, Seba's westerns 40+. Goodreads

Reading now
Favourites now

Sherlock Holmes · Hercule Poirot · Isaac Asimov · Ken Liu

Series I've read most, and teenage favourites
Teenage favourites

Arthur Conan Doyle · H. Rider Haggard · Erich Maria Remarque · Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Series I've read most
Recently finished · 7

Gaming

Single-player story campaigns played to the end.

103PC
17PlayStation
16most in a year
PlayStation · 17
    PC · 103, by year finished

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