[ MD. Sadman Saif Zarif ]

Serial
hackathon
survivor.

CSE @ IUT · Web Dev · Competitive Programming

I'm a CSE student at IUT, Bangladesh. I build things across hackathons, coursework, solo experiments and I have a bad habit of shipping more than the brief asked for. The through-line is software that actually fits where it's used, not just software that works.

I grew up just messing around with computers. Games, random corners of the internet, taking things apart to see what happened. Nobody framed it as a career. It just quietly became one.

I'm a CSE student at IUT now. My first real project was Barakah Bites — a cafeteria ordering system we built at DevSprint 2026, during Ramadan of all times. Five Dockerized microservices, real-time order tracking, a kitchen queue, the whole thing. We built it inside a hackathon window. That was the first time something I made felt like it actually belonged to me.

Hackathons are where something clicks for me. The pressure, the pace, everyone scrambling toward the same deadline.

I haven't decided where I'm going yet. Web dev and AI/ML are both pulling at me and I'm not going to pretend I've figured it out. What I do know is I'd rather ship something real than spend too long deciding what to build.

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RESEARCH TOOL

ContextForge

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Translucent Win11

A complete guide to giving Windows 11 a glassmorphism makeover.

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System theming + transparency
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Competitive Programming

I was never really into competitive programming. Then my Structured Programming professor dropped a Codeforces contest with 150 problems as a quiz. I got through 65 plus of them. Don't do much anymore, but that pressure is exactly what I chase during hackathons now.

10Projects

6Hackathons

140+Stars Earned