Portrait of Riasat Mahbub

Hi, I'm Riasat

I'm a software engineer with a background in full-stack development and software engineering research.

Sometimes that means building a CV platform with its own editor and document engine.

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Selected work

Projects

Products, tools, and experiments built around making complicated things easier to use.

01 Open source

Aergia

A CV builder that makes the path from editing to a finished PDF feel direct.

  • Built a self-hosted full-stack CV platform for reusable career library, application tracking, PDF import/export, and tailored resume generation using Tanstack start, React, FastAPI and Playwright.
  • Developed a customizable document engine with drag-and-drop editing, multiple templates, and synchronized live preview and PDF rendering.
  • Built a local requirement-analysis pipeline using GLiNER2 to match job requirements against candidate evidence and generate editable, tailored CVs.
React FastAPI PDF Generation SQLite Resume Builder TanStack Docker Vite Playwright
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02 Open source

Project Tracker

A reusable memory layer that helps coding agents keep project context close to the work.

  • Built a persistent knowledge-graph system for AI coding agents, linking bugs, features, tasks, decisions,affected files, dependencies, and backlinks across a codebase.
  • Developed a CLI for creating, updating, searching, validating, rebuilding, and repairing project state, with generated dashboards and machine-readable graph output.
  • Implemented BM25, fuzzy, regex, and exact-phrase search to help agents retrieve relevant project context before making code changes.
Skill Markdown YAML Knowledge Graph Python Information Retrieval BM25 JSON
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03 Open source

MBuddy

A unified media database for unusually specific recommendations.

  • Indexes manga, anime, manhwa, games, movies, TV, and novels in one catalog.
  • Uses semantic search across 189,000+ entries to make discovery feel natural.
  • Ingests data from five sources with a FastAPI and SQLite backend.
Python FastAPI SQLite Embeddings Recommender
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Career

Experience

A path from building client products to researching how software can be made better.

Research Assistant

Dalhousie University · Halifax

I worked at the intersection of software engineering and simulation research, focusing on code quality, refactoring practices, and practical improvements to research software.

  • Compared code quality across 155 simulation and 327 traditional projects for SCAM 2024.
  • Studied refactoring practices across large-scale simulation repositories for TRBAM 2026.
  • Improved in-house simulation software by addressing code-quality issues and contributing critical features.

Associate Software Engineer

Brain Station 23

I built and maintained client-facing web and mobile products while working across application development, deployment, and legacy codebases.

  • Built full-stack web and mobile applications using Angular, Laravel, and Ionic.
  • Deployed containerized applications and provisioned Linux environments with Docker and CI/CD.
  • Developed Moodle and WordPress plugins, including an Ionic interface for parsing Moodle HTML.
  • Improved reliability and reduced technical debt with unit and integration test suites.

Latest Posts

Blog

Aug 8, 2026 · 9 min read

Writing LaTeX Locally with VSCode and TeX Live

Overleaf's new compile-time limits make working with slightly large papers more hassle than worth. This walkthrough of the VSCode + TeX Live setup, including some troubleshooting tips will make switching from overleaf easier

Overleaf VSCode
Aug 1, 2026 · 8 min read

The Tracker, Day to Day

What the append-only tool feels like to use day to day: the new loop, the OpenCode plugin's three hooks, the walkable audit trail, and the sharp edges that still need attention.

AI Coding Agents
Jul 31, 2026 · 11 min read

The Tracker Becomes Append-Only

We had been working around four problems at once with the single-writer assumption. The current tool drops the assumption, the counter, the in-place mutation, and the committed graph in a single architectural shift.

AI Coding Agents
Jul 30, 2026 · 6 min read

Adopting the Tracker: Migration and Daily Life

How a project moved onto the tracker, what daily life with it looked like, and how agents picked it up on their own.

AI Coding Agents
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Academic work

Research

I study how software quality and refactoring shape the maintainability of simulation software, with additional work in applied machine learning.

Understanding Code Smells and Refactoring Practices in Simulation Modelling Systems

Master’s thesis examining software quality problems, code-smell patterns, and refactoring effectiveness across 482 open-source repositories.

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Exploring Code Smells in Simulation Modelling Systems: Effectiveness, Risks and Impacts

Study of how effective and risky refactoring is across simulation modelling systems.

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On the Prevalence, Evolution, and Impact of Code Smells in Simulation Modelling

Empirical analysis of code smells across 155 simulation and 327 traditional GitHub projects.

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City Recommender System: A Comparative Study of AI-Driven Approaches

Comparison of classic machine-learning methods and a neural network for personalized city recommendations.

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Neural Network Architecture for the Classification of Alzheimer's Disease from Brain MRI

Neural-network approach to classifying Alzheimer’s disease from brain MRI data.

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Background

Education

Master of Computer Science

Dalhousie University

Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering

BRAC University

Let's Connect

Stay in Touch

Have a question, collaboration idea, or just want to say hi? Reach out through any of the platforms below.

Location: Halifax, Canada

Email: riasat1998@gmail.com

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