software engineer · web developer · builder
Farhana Rahman — software engineer & web developer, final-year Computer Science & Engineering at North South University. I build useful web and application software — and care about animal welfare and women in engineering along the way.
I'm a final-year Computer Science student at NSU, and mostly I build things — web apps, small tools, this site — usually because I wanted something to exist and had to learn the missing parts to make it.
My focus is software engineering and web development: full-stack applications, useful tools, and products people actually use. I'm getting properly good at modern React, Next.js and TypeScript, and I care about writing code other people can read.
Two things I keep coming back to. One is building technology for animal welfare — reuniting lost pets, helping shelters. The other is supporting women in engineering: I chair the IEEE NSU Student Branch Women in Engineering Affinity Group, where I've learned that organizing people is its own kind of systems problem.
My degree gave me a solid grounding in algorithms, systems, and a bit of AI/ML along the way. Useful context — but building software is the part I want to do.
I'm not going to pretend I'm a senior engineer. I'm an emerging one — building, shipping, and learning every single day.
Repositories, experiments, and a couple of things still very much under construction. Status labels are honest.
A platform for reuniting lost cats with their people — post a sighting, post a missing cat, match on location and description. Animal welfare is the reason this one exists; it's not a portfolio filler.
A site for listing animals up for adoption and handling adoption requests end to end — browsing, filtering, submitting, and an admin side to review them. A full CRUD app built start to finish.
A CGPA calculator built for how NSU actually grades — retake rules, credit weighting, the works. Made it because every existing option was a spreadsheet.
This site. A keyboard-navigable workstation you can type commands into and read like a config file — also how I learned the Next.js App Router properly.
A small language model I'm building from the architecture up — every block written by hand — to actually understand how modern transformers work instead of importing a black box.
Where I've worked professionally so far.
Built reusable, responsive page components and sections for client sites with Elementor / WordPress — translating designs into maintainable building blocks rather than one-off pages.
Running a community is its own kind of engineering — people, process, and a lot of coordination.
Lead the affinity group end to end — setting direction, building the team, and running the programs that support women in engineering and technology on campus.
if you want to talk about:
→ software engineering
→ web & app development
→ building a product
→ animal welfare tech
→ women in engineering
→ interesting problems
send me a message.