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Arif

Mohammad Arifur Rahman (Arif)

PhD-trained Scientific Programmer · GIS & AI Engineer

Visa 485 · full work rights · no restrictions · exp. Jan 2029

01 Summary

A results-oriented programmer who takes ownership beyond formal role boundaries, delivering end-to-end ML and GIS solutions. 16+ years of software engineering, a PhD in machine learning for hyperspectral remote sensing, and a product- and deployment-focused mindset.

Machine Learning

PyTorch, hyperspectral, remote sensing, RAG, LLM tool-use, Azure AI Foundry, LangGraph, Azure AI Search, Power Automate, GraphRAG.

GIS & Remote Sensing

ArcGIS Pro, QGIS Desktop/Server, Google Earth Engine.

Development & DevOps

Python pipelines, Flutter, React JS, Bash, Azure, AWS, Ubuntu, Playwright.

02 Top Recent Projects by Category

Cloud-native AI

Resource Allocation Assistant
  • Built an Azure-native assistant that lets reviewers interrogate a large document corpus through multi-turn, tool-using LLM conversations.
  • Owned the whole stack: upload-triggered extraction and comparative-scoring jobs, vector retrieval, containerised deployment, secrets and CI/CD.
  • Extended cross-document reasoning with GraphRAG and LangGraph behind a streaming chat UI.
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Self-hosted ML

Image Classification — Commercial vs Native Vegetation
  • Owned the problem end-to-end, from labelling strategy through to a deployed, reviewable model.
  • Tuned iteratively against domain feedback and served it on Ubuntu for ongoing internal use.
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GIS

Web GIS Portal & Mobile GIS Apps (Android & iOS)
  • Delivered interactive GIS layers to office and field users across web, Android and iOS from a single data source.
  • Worked across the full stack — data, server, apps and test automation — with an AI-accelerated build-and-deploy workflow.
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Remote Sensing

Spectral Index Analysis & Comparison System
  • Lets analysts track vegetation and water conditions over time and compare any two points spatially.
  • Turns raw satellite archives into decision-ready spectral signals.
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IoT

Low-Cost Soil Moisture Sensor Calibration
  • Calibrated a low-cost capacitive soil-moisture sensor against a research-grade reference.
  • Co-located DFRobot/ESP32/Raspberry Pi hardware with a SenseCAP S2108, then trained an ML model to map cheap readings onto reference-grade values.
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03 Work Experience

Analyst Programmer

Jun 2025 — present

Wimmera Catchment Management Authority · Horsham, VIC

  • Machine learning workflows for business and environmental decision support.
  • GIS and remote sensing data pipelines for spatial analysis, mapping and reporting.
  • Web and mobile application development for internal tools, data visualisation, and dashboards.
  • System deployment, troubleshooting and optimisation across cloud and Linux server environments.

Machine Learning Engineer

Aug 2022 — May 2025

WebAlive Pty Ltd · Melbourne

  • Speech-recognition system to identify international names for automated video clipping.
  • OpenCV tool to detect and crop faces for ID-card image workflows.
  • Face-recognition pipeline to cluster and organise photos by identity.

Engineering Manager

Jul 2008 — Apr 2022

Bit Mascot (Pvt) Ltd · Bangladesh

  • Led delivery as a core developer across 20+ mid-sized and 3 long-term full-stack projects, using Java, Grails, PHP, Bash, Selenium, CentOS and Ubuntu.
  • Coordinated delivery planning and execution across concurrent client engagements.

04 Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering)

Jan 2026

Federation University Australia · Mt Helen, VIC

Soil Carbon estimation from Hyperspectral Imaging using CNN-based algorithms.

Examiner's comment: an outstanding, and highly complete piece of doctoral research

BSc, Computer Science

Dec 2007

American International University-Bangladesh

GPA: 3.97 out of 4.

Awards: Summa cum laude and Scholarship for Academic Excellence.

05 Selected Publications

  1. IEEE Access · 2025 Deep Learning-based Adaptive Downsampling of Hyperspectral Bands for Soil Organic Carbon Estimation.
  2. Sensors 24.23 · 2024 BSDR: A Data-Efficient Deep Learning-Based Hyperspectral Band Selection Algorithm Using Discrete Relaxation.
  3. DICTA / IEEE · 2024 Addressing Limitations of Common Methods in Attention-based Hyperspectral Band Selection Algorithms.
  4. Neurocomputing 536 · 2023 Anti-aliasing deep image classifiers using novel depth-adaptive blurring and activation function.

06 Field Experience

Participated in Monash University’s Active and Passive P- and L-band Experiment, an airborne field campaign led by Professor Jeffrey Walker.