Asif Khan Chowdhury — AI Solution Architect, Copenhagen

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ASIF KHAN CHOWDHURY

AI Solution Architect · Cloud & Enterprise AI — Copenhagen, Denmark

I build agentic AI that survives production — enterprise-grade systems for regulated pharma at Enlight, after five years shipping at Microsoft.

ex-Microsoft · led SOC 2 Type II · Microsoft Global Hackathon — 3rd worldwide · ACM ICPC regional champion

10years engineering5years at Microsoft3years enterprise AI

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Career

[2023 — now]● active

Enlight ApS · Senior Software Engineer

  • Agentic LLM systems operating inside regulated pharma workflows.
  • RAG over massive data warehouses — weeks of SQL work becomes conversational insight in seconds.
  • Designed the Azure cloud platform from zero with SOC 2 baked in; led the Type II certification that now wins enterprise deals.
  • Semantic Kernel
  • Azure AI Search
  • Azure Foundry
  • Python
  • C#
[2018 — 2023]

Microsoft · Software Engineer → Senior

  • Task-based billing engine for Dynamics 365 Project Operations, built on graph algorithms.
  • Cut SCM customer pain score from 10 to 1 with Dual-Write, and daily incidents from ~40 to under 10 while leading 9 vendor engineers.
  • Drove Dynamics 365 Marketing to a 100% accessibility rating; shipped the Asset Management mobile app to public preview.
  • C# / .NET
  • Azure
  • TypeScript
  • Dynamics 365
[2016 & earlier]

Adfenix · Secure Link Services Ltd · Competitive programming

  • .NET
  • AngularJS
  • Android
  • RASA-NLU
  • C++
  • Algorithms
  • Data structures

Skills

ai-engineering/

  • Semantic Kernel
  • LangChain / LangGraph
  • Azure AI
  • RAG pipelines
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Machine Learning

cloud-backend/

  • Microsoft Azure
  • C# / .NET
  • Python / Django
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • System Design
  • CI/CD · IaC

platforms-foundations/

  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • Dynamics 365
  • Power Platform
  • C / C++
  • Algorithms & Data Structures

Builds

~/dev/donna-ai

Donna AI

a personal AI chief of staff

LangGraph agents triaging Slack, WhatsApp and email into one daily digest — iOS app, relationship intelligence (RFM + DISC), behavioral memory.

  • LangGraph
  • Django
  • Redis
  • Swift

~/dev/second-brain

Second Brain

memory that outlives sessions

PARA-structured Obsidian vault behind a custom MCP server. Every AI session auto-captures decisions into the vault.

  • MCP
  • Obsidian
  • FastMCP
  • Hooks

~/dev/dax-generator

DAX Generator

plain English → Power BI DAX

.NET 8 API that turns natural-language questions into Power BI DAX — hybrid vector search over the data model with Azure AI Search, generation via Semantic Kernel, syntax validation built in.

  • C# / .NET 8
  • Azure AI Search
  • Semantic Kernel
  • Azure OpenAI

~/dev/freqtrade-strats

Algo Trading

strategies, backtested

Custom freqtrade strategies with Jupyter-driven research — the contest-era algorithmic instincts, monetized.

  • Python
  • freqtrade
  • Pandas
  • Trophies

  • [2022] Microsoft Global Hackathon — winner

    judges' 3rd place worldwide + people's choice award

  • [2015] ACM ICPC Dhaka — divisional champion

    ranked 17th in the region

  • [2015] IEEE Robotour & Programming Contest — champion

    robots and algorithms, same trophy shelf

  • [2013 — 15] University contest circuit

    RUET University Day champion · national top-15 finishes · CSE dept. excellence award

About

education/

  • B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering — RUET (Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology), 2012 — 2016.
  • Certificates: Machine Learning — Andrew Ng (Stanford/Coursera) · MITx 6.00x Intro to CS · ML A-Z (Udemy).

languages/

  • bn_BD — Bangla · native
  • en — English · full professional
  • da_DK — Danish · limited working (Indfødsretsprøven in progress)

interests/

  • astro physics — the galaxy behind this page is a real density-wave simulation
  • algo trading · table tennis · badminton · travelling · gaming

FAQ

Who is Asif Khan Chowdhury?

Asif Khan Chowdhury is a senior software engineer and AI Solution Architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He builds enterprise-grade, agentic AI systems for regulated pharma at Enlight, after five years as a software engineer at Microsoft. His work spans Semantic Kernel, Azure AI, RAG pipelines and multi-agent systems, grounded in a competitive-programming background in C++.

What does Asif specialize in?

Asif specializes in agentic AI and enterprise cloud engineering: designing multi-agent LLM systems, RAG pipelines over large data warehouses, and Azure platforms built to production and compliance standards — he led a SOC 2 Type II certification. His core stack is Semantic Kernel, Azure AI Search, C# / .NET and Python.

What is Asif's experience with agentic AI and Semantic Kernel?

At Enlight, Asif designs agentic LLM systems that run inside regulated pharma workflows, using Semantic Kernel for orchestration and Azure AI Search for retrieval. He has shipped RAG systems that turn weeks of SQL work into conversational insight in seconds, plus side projects like a LangGraph-based AI chief of staff and a Semantic Kernel DAX generator.

Is Asif available for senior software engineering roles in Copenhagen or Denmark?

Asif is a senior software engineer and AI Solution Architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark, open to senior engineering and AI architecture conversations. Reach him at hello@asifelse.com, or on LinkedIn and GitHub at /abuasifkhan.

What has Asif built?

Alongside enterprise AI at Enlight, Asif builds after-hours: Donna AI, a LangGraph chief of staff triaging Slack, WhatsApp and email; Second Brain, an MCP-served Obsidian memory system; a .NET 8 DAX generator using Semantic Kernel and Azure AI Search; and backtested freqtrade algo-trading strategies.

Where did Asif study, and what are his achievements?

Asif holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering from RUET (Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology). He won the Microsoft Global Hackathon — 3rd worldwide plus people's choice (2022) — was an ACM ICPC Dhaka divisional champion, and an IEEE Robotour & Programming Contest champion.

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