Contributors

Tarek has guided dozens of Bangladeshi enterprises through hypervisor migrations, vendor consolidations, and licensing renegotiations. He writes about the parts of the cloud market the press releases tend to gloss over.

Saiful runs the virtualisation engineering practice. He has deployed and operated vSphere, KVM, and OpenStack clusters across BFSI, telecom, and government workloads in Bangladesh, and writes about the parts of the stack other people stop reading at.

Imtiaz works with the banks and NBFIs that make up most of Cloud Digit’s regulated customer base. He has shipped core-banking integrations, payment-switch migrations, and the BB ICT compliance work that goes with both. He writes on what hybrid actually looks like for a bank.

Nusrat designs the infrastructure foundations that customers run their workloads on. Her background spans hyperconverged, three-tier private cloud, and software-defined storage. She writes about the architectural trade-offs that shape every cloud build-out.

Mahbub leads the partnership and large-account function at Cloud Digit. He spent the previous decade in the colocation and connectivity industry across Bangladesh and the region, and he writes here on what makes a sovereign cloud business actually work in this market.

Sabrina runs strategy and corporate development at Cloud Digit. Her background is in management consulting and infrastructure investment in South Asia. She writes about the economics and market dynamics that shape what gets built.

Tasnim designs the operating models that customers run on top of Cloud Digit. Her background is in enterprise platform engineering across BFSI and telecommunications. She writes about the parts of cloud adoption that have nothing to do with the technology.

Shahriar leads the AI/ML platform team. His prior work includes large-scale recommender systems for South Asian e-commerce and a doctorate in distributed systems. He writes about running modern AI workloads on sovereign infrastructure.

Anika leads the team that translates regulation into product. She holds a law degree alongside her engineering background and has worked on data-handling RFPs for both regulators and regulated entities. She writes on the parts of compliance that the technology team needs to see.

Rakib runs the telecommunications practice. His prior work was on OSS/BSS modernisation and NFV rollout for two of Bangladesh’s largest mobile operators. He writes about the four-tier hybrid model telcos converge on whether they planned to or not.

Farhana has guided multiple Bangladeshi enterprises through their first GDPR-aligned and Data Privacy Act-aligned programmes. She runs the internal Data Protection function at Cloud Digit and is one of the most-cited voices in the local privacy community. She writes about the Data Privacy Act in plain language.

Kazi runs the security organisation at Cloud Digit. His background is in financial-sector security operations — SOC build-outs, SWIFT environment isolation, and regulatory engagement. He writes about the controls that survive auditor turnover and incident response.

Tanvir runs the FinOps practice — the discipline of bringing financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud. He has helped customers across BFSI, SaaS, and government recover material BDT through tagging, rightsizing, and commitment management.

Saima leads engagement with BTRC, Bangladesh Bank, and the Data Protection Authority. Her work bridges policy, licensing, and engineering. She writes about how the regulatory frame shapes — and is shaped by — public cloud adoption in Bangladesh.