Hasnaeen Rizvi Rahman founded Astha IT Ventures in 2008, when he was in his mid-twenties. Over the decade, it grew up to be a global service provider, with clients in USA, Australia and Europe, winning multiple awards from BASIS and the government. A passionate problem solver by heart, Hasnaeen self-taught programming at his ninth grade, and sold his first commercial software during his high school years. As an outstanding academic, he passed a summa cum laude from North South University with a Bachelor degree in Computer Science. With his visionary leadership, Astha IT has become a tech giant in the country. Beside Astha IT, Hasnaeen co-owns and is part of several other business ventures in United States. To know the journey of his life so far, visit his personal website: http://hasnaeen.me

Tasnuva Ahmed took over the operational and business development sides of Astha IT Ventures as its Chief Operating Officer since 2020. She has been working in the marketing sector for the past 13 years and has a prolific career record in both Corporate and Media, such as ColoursFM, Celestial Tech, Banglalink, BATB, etc. She has an extensive experience in the broadcast media industry promoting Gender Equality, Women Empowerment and Stop Violence Against Women. Tasnuva has an MBA degree from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Thailand and an International Master degree in Marketing (double major) from Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración (EADA) Barcelona, Spain. She is also the chairperson of her own venture, Thought Makers – a media consultancy company. Tasnuva is a fitness enthusiast and a cyclist who has also completed a few half Marathons. She believes with hard work and persistence, one can achieve anything they are capable to dream of.

Eftakhar Chowdhury joined Astha IT Ventures as its Chief Technology Officer in 2017. Since then, he designed, architeched and implemented the company’s trademarked microservices platform, which features massive scalability, load-balancing, industry standard security, distributed storage, authentication and authorization, data retention, data synchronization, job execution and deployment automation – among many others. Eftakhar is also responsible for hiring, mentoring and supervising the engineering staff of the company. With 14 years of industry experience, he has been an expert in networking and real-time communication products, developing for brands like Genuity Systems, PLEXSTAR, BroTecs Technologies and Stitel Networks. Eftakhar holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from AIUB.

Saif Rossi Islam joined Astha IT Ventures as its Chief Product Officer, spearheading product vision, innovation, research and development. Beside his roles here at Astha IT, Saif is also the Senior Product Leader at Volvo Cars HQ (Digital Enterprise Unit), at Sweden. Previously, he has been the Head of Product at NetEnt Live (Publ. NASDAQ) and the founding manager of Bikroy.com Bangladesh together with Kinnevik (Publ. NASDAQ). Saif has extensive experience in online marketplaces/E-commerce, mobile applications, content management and SaaS. He is also an angel, seeding start-ups and expansion experiences in EMAEA and EU region. Holding a BSc degree from BRAC University and a MSc degree from Gothenburg Business School Sweden, Saif is a PhD fellow from Southern Denmark University.

Rezwan Salam Tanvir is the Head of Developments at Astha IT Ventures and drives all our products to delivery. Tanvir has a diverse career of 13 years in software development getting his hands dirty in many domains under several renown companies such as DNV GL, Sirecore and Samsung. His portfolio includes financial solutions, unattended payment devices, oil & gas plant integrity solution, CMS, cold-chain visibility system, and a few more. With a passion to solve real world problems using technology, Tanvir constantly tries to find and improve ways to identify and solve customers’ pain points. Holding a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Engineering from CUET and being connected with a few startups across the globe, Tanvir strongly advocates keeping an open mind to any solution as it comes to improving the quality of life.