Experience

Work, education and service

Work

  1. Sep 2026 – present

    Software Developer (Technologist), Software Engineering unit

    Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento

    Promoted to Software Developer (Technologist) in September 2026. Research software engineering on AI-assisted software testing and software quality.

  2. Sep 2022 – Sep 2026

    Junior Software Developer, Software Engineering unit

    Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento

    Research software engineering on AI-assisted software testing: LLM-generated test oracles (AugmenTest), model-based testing of railway interlocking systems, and configuration optimisation with feature models. FBK's Software Engineering unit is also a partner in the ESA project "AI for Automation of Mission Operations Systems Testing and Validation".

  3. 2020

    Software development

    Spider Digital Innovation

  4. 2018 – 2019

    Software development

    Spider Digital Commerce

    Back-end services for a payment gateway (Lebupay) and a mobile top-up platform (WeTopUp), in Java.

Education

  1. 2021 – 2023

    M.Sc. in Data Science

    University of Trento

    Thesis: "Exploring the Feasibility and Effectiveness of Large Language Models for Automated Test Oracle Generation in Software Testing", supervised by Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew and Paolo Rota.

    Shaker Mahmud Khandaker in a graduation laurel wreath, holding the bound thesis, in front of the Fountain of Neptune in Trento.
    Graduation, 31 October 2023. Album
  2. 2014 – 2018

    B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering

    BRAC University, Dhaka

Service

  1. 2026

    Artifact Evaluation Committee member

    ICST 2026, Daejeon, South Korea

Recognition

  1. November 2022

    Winning team, Public AI Challenge 2022

    Fondazione Hub Innovazione Trentino (HIT)

    With Alessia Meloni and Ludovico Maria Valenti (University of Trento, mentor Paolo Rota): an AI application that sorts more than 200,000 images of the Caproni Collection, the world's oldest collection of aeronautical material, by theme and assesses the condition of the original glass plates.

    The winning team and organisers holding certificates at the Public AI Challenge award.
    Award at Fondazione HIT, November 2022.