Imam Chowdhury

Summary

I build and improve the systems that keep modern organizations running reliably, securely and efficiently. My work spans infrastructure, networking, security, automation and AI-driven workflow design — from disaster recovery, virtual environments, Microsoft platforms and hybrid mail systems to firewall, wireless and endpoint security.

What I enjoy most is turning complex operational challenges into simple, scalable, automated solutions. Over the years I have built in-house tools and systems that improve newsroom and enterprise workflows — an AI-based editorial suite for reporters, automated photo archiving and tagging, document generation pipelines, SEO support tools and AI-assisted candidate screening.

I am especially drawn to research and development, new ideas and practical innovation. My biggest satisfaction comes from solving problems in a way that is efficient, elegant and repeatable.

Experience

The Daily Star — 8 yrs 5 mos

Selected systems

• AI Editorial Suite — Newsroom Intelligence. Thirteen tools in daily newsroom use since mid-2024 — transcription, drafting, subediting, translation, SEO, photo metadata, OCR and an ePaper comparison desk — in one route from raw material to publication-ready copy. Editorial judgement stays with the editor throughout.
• Cortex — Applied AI. A retrieval-augmented workspace over an organisation's own documents — ask a question, get an answer grounded in the source rather than in the model's memory.
• Intelligent Photo Archive — Media Operations. The archive itself, rather than the tagging tool that feeds it: bulk ingestion for high-volume newsroom photography, with a datetime fixer that repairs the wrong-capture-date problem at the root and metadata embedded into the files themselves rather than held in a database beside them.
• Publishing Automation — Workflow Automation. The layer that chains the suite together for one story: ad graphics, accurate map documents, SEO groundwork and social cards produced in a single pass rather than as separate errands after publication.
• Document Generation Pipeline — Workflow Automation. Repeatable document production that turns complex source material into consistent outputs.
• Resilience Core — Infrastructure. Active Directory, DNS, hybrid mail, virtualization and disaster recovery — the Microsoft and Linux foundations a newsroom that cannot stop is actually standing on.
• Security Fabric — Cybersecurity. Next-gen firewall, switching and routing, wireless, and EDR aligned into one operational defence layer — including hardening the Windows and Linux privilege-escalation paths an attacker would actually take.

Education

Honours & awards

• Star Unbowed Award — 2025
• Best in IT — 2025
• Best in IT — 2024
• Best in IT — 2022
• Pandemic Hero — 2020

Capabilities

• Routing, switching & network design — 8 yrsThe newsroom's core network, from the floor up.
• Active Directory, DNS & Windows platform — 8 yrsIdentity and name resolution for the whole organisation.
• Day-to-day operations discipline — 8 yrsThe unglamorous half: change, recovery, and being on the hook.
• Virtualization & disaster recovery — 5 yrsVirtual environments and a recovery path that has been tested.
• Hybrid mail systems — 5 yrsOn-premises and cloud mail as one system rather than two.
• Linux & open-source infrastructure — 5 yrsUsually the route to a solid result an organisation can afford.
• Firewall, EDR & endpoint hardening — 2 yrsNext-gen firewall policy, EDR, and closing privilege-escalation paths.
• Automation & CI/CD — 2 yrsn8n and pipelines — WhatsApp, email and voice automation — removing work that should not have been manual.
• Applied AI & RAG systems — 2 yrsLangChain, retrieval over a private corpus, human judgement kept in the loop.