Weeks → seconds hundreds of questions a week
Designed and built it solo
How I built it →at Enlight
Hej! I'm Asif.
I design and ship AI that regulated industries trust in production.
- Copenhagen
- AI Solution Architect
- Full Stack Engineer
- 10+ years building software
- Open to AI architect, engineering & lead roles
I'm an AI Solution Architect at Enlight, building an AI assistant for teams at a global pharma company. Before that, I spent five years at Microsoft on Dynamics 365.
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Asif Khan Chowdhury
AI Solution Architect
- ID no.
- AK-0001
- Dept.
- Enterprise AI
- Since
- 2016
What I am
curious, relentless, practical
- AI Solution ArchitectShips AI to production, fast
- Self-taught engineerFrom Satkhira to Microsoft
- Problem solverUntangles the hard ones
- Automation nerdNever does a chore twice
- MentorTrained coders now at Google & Meta
Asif
say hej · hello@asifelse.com
the day job, minus the jargon
What I do, simply speaking…
I listen first, find the real problem, then solve it with AI.
Unchecked → 90%+ on 200+ test questions
Every release graded automatically
at Enlight
from an average of 40 to under 10 customer issues a day customer issues a day
While leading 9 vendor engineers
at Microsoft
+ a few gold stars
SOC 2 security certification
at Enlight
100% accessibility rating
at Microsoft
99% faster queries
at SELISE
from day jobs and late nights
What I built
Products people use every day, plus helpers that run my days.
no. 1
Loona
An AI agent manufacturers use every day to process quote requests.
Days → minutes per quote · 10+ manufacturers
- Reads quotes like an engineer
- A shared AI workspace for teams
- Learns from expert feedback
- Ships fast, safely
no. 2
LEA Insights
An AI assistant pharma teams ask instead of digging through reports.
Weeks → seconds with sources on every answer
- 90%+ on 200+ test questions
- Prototype to users in under a month
no. 3
Asset Management app
A mobile app for maintenance teams, shipped to thousands of customers.
- Work orders on the go
- Scan to find an asset
- Fast on any phone
no. 4
Task-based billing
Bills customers per finished task, not per hour.
- Retainer contracts built in
- Graph algorithms for task trees
- Loved by customers
no. 5
Swiss bank app
An Android banking app for a Swiss bank.
- QR payments
- NFC tap-to-pay
- Bank-to-bank transfers
no. 6
Gandalf
My AI agent that works while I sleep.
- Sorts my inbox overnight
- Writes my journal
- Keeps me on schedule
no. 7
Home on autopilot
A Raspberry Pi assistant that runs my home.
- Voice control
- Lights on autopilot
- TV control
what's in my pencil case
My toolbox
The tools I reach for — pick one to see where.
Using now
Used before
the scenic route
How I got here
Started coding in Bangladesh. Now building AI in Copenhagen.
- 10+years building software
- 5years at Microsoft
- 3years in enterprise AI
Rajshahi, Bangladesh
- 2011 — 2016 · RUETComputer science and programming contests
- Founded RUET Analytical Programming Labs
- Astronomy society president
- Shamanupatik organiser
What I did here
Competitive programming · Algorithmist
origins · Rajshahi, Bangladesh
- Thousands of solved problems across Codeforces, HackerRank, LeetCode and contest circuits in C++.
- At RUET: founded and taught RAPL (RUET Analytical Programming Labs), a competitive-programming club whose alumni now work at Google, Microsoft, Apple and Meta; president of the Astronomy & Science Society (2014–16); organiser of Shamanupatik.
stack C++ · Algorithms · Data structures
Education
- B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering — RUET (Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology), 2011 — 2016.
- Certificates: Machine Learning — Andrew Ng (Stanford/Coursera) · MITx 6.00x Intro to CS · ML A-Z (Udemy).
More awards
- Excellence Performance Award 2015 — CSE dept., RUET
- 7th — RUET CSE FEST programming contest
- 14th — Daffodil National Collegiate Programming Contest
Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 2016 — 2017 · SELISEFirst job: a mobile banking app
What I did here
SELISE Digital Platforms · Junior → Full-stack Engineer
2016 — 2017 · Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Android banking app and e-wallet for a Swiss bank, with QR, NFC and bank-to-bank transfers.
- Made the in-house e-Cap framework's queries 99% faster — minutes to under a second; wrote its RASA-NLU chatbot.
stack Android · RASA-NLU
Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2017 — 2018 · AdfenixReal-estate ad campaigns
What I did here
Adfenix · Full-stack Engineer
2017 — 2018 · Gothenburg, Sweden
- Real-estate ad campaigns across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter — .NET + AngularJS.
- Cut order-processing time by 40% and lifted customer satisfaction by 25%.
stack .NET · AngularJS
Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2018 — 2023 · MicrosoftFive years inside Dynamics 365 (ERP & CRM)
- 2023 — now · EnlightAI for pharma
What I did here
Microsoft · Software Engineer → Software Engineer II
2018 — 2023 · Copenhagen, Denmark
- Led the Asset Management mobile app end to end — customer interviews, UX, performance — to public preview for thousands of Dynamics customers.
- Cut daily customer incidents for Dynamics 365 SCM Trade from ~40 to under 10, leading 9 vendor engineers.
- Cut the Supply Chain customer pain score from 10 to 1 by making Dual-Write resilient between Dataverse and Finance & Operations.
- Designed task-based billing and retainer contracts for Dynamics 365 Project Operations, built on graph algorithms.
- Took Dynamics 365 Marketing to a 100% accessibility rating and made it faster for hundreds of enterprise customers.
- Served as the team's Scrum master and mentored new engineers.
stack C# / .NET · Azure · TypeScript · Dynamics 365
Enlight ApS · Senior Software Engineer → AI Solution Architect
2023 — now · Copenhagen, Denmark
- Designed and built LEA Insights solo: an agentic assistant that answers with sources inside regulated pharma workflows — hundreds of questions a week.
- Built its retrieval — RAG over enterprise data warehouses with Azure AI Search — turning weeks of research into answers in seconds.
- Set up its evals: every release is graded against 200+ test questions by an LLM judge, and it scores 90%+.
- Led the Azure platform revamp with SOC 2 built in, and the Type II certification with Thoropass, which now speeds up enterprise security reviews.
stack Semantic Kernel · Azure AI Search · Azure Foundry · LLM evals · C#
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dusted off for you
Trophy shelf
2022
3rd worldwide
Microsoft Global Hackathon
Plus the people's choice award
2015
17th in the region
ACM ICPC Dhaka
Divisional champion
2015
1st place
IEEE Robotour & Programming Contest
Champion
2013 — 15
top-15 nationally
University contest circuit
RUET University Day champion · CSE excellence award
more to come
when I'm not working
Off the clock
- Astronomy
- Algo trading
- Table tennis
- Badminton
- Travel
- Reading
- Coffee
the short answers
Frequently asked questions
Who is Asif Khan Chowdhury?
Asif Khan Chowdhury is an AI Solution Architect at Enlight in Copenhagen, Denmark, with 10+ years of software engineering behind him. He designs and ships enterprise-grade, agentic AI systems for regulated pharma, 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 designed and built LEA Insights, an agentic assistant used inside regulated pharma workflows, with Semantic Kernel for orchestration and Azure AI Search for retrieval. It turns weeks of research into answers in seconds, and every release is graded against 200+ test questions, scoring 90%+. After hours he builds personal AI agents with MCP, Claude and Codex.
Is Asif open to AI architect and engineering roles in Copenhagen or Denmark?
Yes. Asif is an AI Solution Architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark, open to AI solution architect, senior and staff AI engineer, forward-deployed engineer and AI engineering lead roles. He works in English and has passed PD3 Danish. Reach him at hello@asifelse.com, book a call at cal.com/asifelse, or find him on LinkedIn and GitHub at /abuasifkhan.
What has Asif built?
At Enlight, Asif designed and built LEA Insights, an AI assistant pharma teams use instead of digging through reports. For Loonar he built Loona, an AI agent 10+ manufacturers use daily to turn quote requests around in minutes instead of days. At Microsoft he shipped the Dynamics 365 Asset Management mobile app and task-based billing, and at SELISE a Swiss bank's Android app. After hours he builds helpers like Gandalf, his night-shift AI agent.
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), where he founded RAPL (RUET Analytical Programming Labs), a competitive-programming club whose alumni now work at Google, Microsoft, Apple and Meta. He won 3rd place worldwide and the people's choice award at the Microsoft Global Hackathon (2022), was an ACM ICPC Dhaka divisional champion, and an IEEE Robotour & Programming Contest champion.
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