Maruf Ahmad (Ifti)

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Introduce

Maruf Ahmad

Director of IT & Head of PMO, AI & Data in MetLife, Bangladesh. International PMI Judge & IEEE Senior Member. A Software Architect & AI Researcher with Certifications on AWS Cloud, Microsoft Azure AI, PMP, SAFe 6 Agile, Scrum Master and Salesforce Admin. A South Korean Patent Holder & Microsoft Certified Trainer.

About

I am a distinguished IT expert with PMP, Agile SAFe expertise, certified Google Project Manager and a certified Scrum Master, bringing over 18 years of leadership in the global software industry. Additionally, I am a Microsoft Certified AI Engineer and a proficient Python Developer. I have successfully led international teams in the development and deployment of cutting-edge software solutions, particularly in Azure & AWS cloud architecture, AI-based systems, and security protocols. With a deep technical foundation in programming languages such as Python, I bring a hybrid skill set of technical leadership and strategic project management. In addition to my software project management background, I am well-versed in cloud architecture, security, and modern DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, making me capable of guiding cross- functional teams in delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. I possess a profound understanding of financial management in projects, with experience managing budgets of up to $50 million annually.

Strength

Master of Engineering from a North American highly reputed university. Microsoft Certified AI Engineer, have Zscaler cloud security and sales certifications and blockchain architect certification. Former teaching fellow from a top European university, did Bachelor’s from India. Have experience in cloud security account management at Posco and Samsung in Korea. Fluent in Bengali, English, Hindi, Urdu and Korean language.

Experience & Education
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Experience & Education

Full time Experiences

June 2025 to Present

Director of IT in MetLife, Bangladesh

Head of Software Project Management and Planning-PMO & AI & Data Analytics in Azure Cloud Platform.

February 2025 to May 2025

Head of Project Management in AVS LLC, USA

H1B job in USA Project Architecture and Execution Monitoring Agile Project Quality and Leadership Management Research on future AI Project Management, AWS Cloud Security End Client: Microsoft, Georgia State Government.

July 2024 to January 2025

Director of Project Management in Mediusware Inc, USA & Bangladesh

USA client's government software projects mostly on AI. Tech Stack: Python (Django) JavaScript (Next JS) Flutter and AWS. Major responsibilities: Project Architecture and Execution Monitoring, Agile Project Quality and Leadership Management, Strategic Policy and Resource Planning for the project and product department.

April 2022 to March 2024

Senior Manager (Project Management) in Kona SL, Korea & Bangladesh

Major responsibilities: Korean blockchain based project management with leading 40 members. Business management, taking the business project named NCP of 5 million USD yearly from South Korea. Notable work: Got project ownership with a very short period of time from South Korea.

June 2020 to March 2022

Technical Manager (Project Management) in o2ones Inc. in Korea

Major responsibilities: Business lead and project manager of night vision of video surveillance security camera. Using Nvidia Jetson board with custom surveillance camera and make night vision detection algorithm for custom object detection. Notable work: Managing a 20 members team with a project for AI security, Part of a worldwide marketing team of o2ones AI camera and exporting to UAE, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. Here, managed Business sales were 20 million USD yearly.

April 2019 to March 2020.

Technical Manager (Project Management) in ShinwooTNS in Korea

Major responsibilities: To maintain Zscaler cloud security for Samsung. Samsung went for Zscaler cloud security to help their employees and ShinwooTNS was the Korean vendor of Zscaler. Notable work: Having all the certifications of Zscaler, I was responsible to maintain Zscaler security operation, business and also helped to develop policy change when it was needed with USA Zscaler team. Posco-Korea also a client of ShinwooTNS and was an engineer to support Zscaler cloud security there with making firewall policy with Palo Alto devices. Here I managed 10 members and the business sales were 50 million USD yearly with Samsung, Posco in Korea.

March 2017 to February 2018

Ghent University - Teaching (Software Engineering) in Korea

Major responsibilities: 5 credit theory and practical of data science and Python Lab. Was responsible for taking Bachelor degree 1St & and 2nd semester class where Python was taught. Notable work: Was a research lab assistant in computer vision lab where security algorithms were developing with computer vision and AI.

September 2015 to February 2017

SUNY Korea - Research Engineer (Software Project) in Korea

Major responsibilities: Full time Research Assistant Engineer in Suny Korea. Notable work: Was a part of a Korean government project on information security and testing.

March 2008 to August 2015

Project Manager of Iftisoft Ltd in Bangladesh

Major responsibilities: Software and web development project management and business. Developed freelance projects given by South Korean and Canadian clients mainly for frontend and backend development. Notable work: Managed and developed a full freelancing system project like Upwork, fiverr called wishwork with other projects.

Education

2015 - 2017

Master of Computer Science & Engineering

Stony Brook University, USA

First class.

Major- Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms

2004 - 2008

Bachelor of Information Technology

KIIT University, India

First class.

Major- Cloud and Network Security

2003 - 2004

Higher Secondary School Certificate- HSC

Notre Dame college, Bangladesh

First class

Major- Science & Mathematics

2001 - 2002

Secondary School Certificate- SSC

Sher E Bangla Government School, Bangladesh

First class

Major- Science

Best Works

Notable Projects

Alap Korea

A full Video conference solution engine custome development from scratch.
Url: www.alapkorea.com

Nagad

Bangladesh one of the latgest MFS solution and a digital bank.
Url: www.nagad.com.bd

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Other Software Development Work Experiences

Worked on a Korean Government 3D printer project for Hanyang University, Korea (Mar-Sep 2018).

Korean Government Project on Korea Electric Power (Kepco) to develop substation protocol IEC 60870 and 61850 protocol software. October 2018 to March 2019 with Limesoft Inc. Korea.

Part time AWS Korean airlines security Project. Korean airlines security project with guard duty, Dynamo-db and lambda function in 2020 April-May with Elcid Technology Korea.