Helsinki, Finland · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Chief Technology Advisor, a2i — ICT Ministry of Bangladesh · Program Manager · Product Owner · Twenty years in engineering and technology leadership
Twenty years turning engineering discipline into systems people depend on — from Class C patient monitors built to FDA and MDR standards in Helsinki, to the national digital platforms now serving citizens across Bangladesh.
01 About
Masud Rahman is a Bangladeshi-Finnish technology leader based in Helsinki. Over more than twenty years he has worked at the two ends of an unusually demanding spectrum: regulated medical-device engineering, where a defect is a patient-safety event, and national digital infrastructure, where a single design decision reaches millions of citizens.
He spent a decade at GE Healthcare Finland — first as Test Lead and Scrum Master, then Product Owner, then Program Manager — releasing Class C patient-monitoring systems under FDA, MDR, MDD and ISO regimes, and leading engineering teams across the United States, India, China, Mexico and Finland. Before that came eight years as a Senior Software Engineer at Nokia.
Since April 2025 he has served as Chief Technology Advisor at a2i under Bangladesh's ICT Ministry, setting national digital-transformation direction. There he leads 45 engineers and consultants, coordinates more than 200 domain experts across government, and manages a portfolio of over 30 vendor partnerships.
02 Selected Work
Systems carried end to end — specified, built, certified, released.
Digital public infrastructure · Bangladesh
Spearheaded development of a citizen-centric service platform that consolidates a wide range of government services behind a single accessible interface, reducing bureaucracy and widening public access nationwide.
National systems · Bangladesh
Designed and implemented the national electronic toll collection system, converting manual toll operations into an efficient and transparent process with a measurably better experience for road users.
Government platforms · Bangladesh
Led major upgrades to reliability, security and service quality across three of Bangladesh's flagship national digital products.
Class C medical device · GE Healthcare
As Product Owner, built the verification and test infrastructure that carried GE Healthcare's Mobile Digital Health programme to release — a wearable solution for continuous patient monitoring.
Patient monitoring · GE Healthcare
Test lead for platform and service-interface releases V3.0 and V3.1, working inside a global engineering organisation of more than one hundred people.
Design transfer · GE Healthcare
Program manager for a complete design-change and manufacturing-transfer project, delivered in 2024 under FDA, MDR and MDD compliance.
03 Expertise
Six domains built up across two decades of delivery.
National platform architecture, citizen-service design, digital identity, interoperability, and e-government product portfolios.
Class C device development under FDA, MDR, MDD and ISO; CAPAs, non-conformities, concessions and design transfer; acting CCB chair and reviewer.
Agile and LEAN delivery, budgeting and procurement, stakeholder governance, and multicultural teams spanning four continents.
System and test architecture, verification strategy, automation frameworks, clinical parameter validation and reliability testing.
Cybersecurity practice, data governance, digital identity management and privacy protection, aligned to ISO, ITIL and TOGAF.
AI and machine learning, blockchain, IoT and cloud-native delivery, applied to public-sector service transformation.
04 Career
Helsinki, London and Dhaka — engineering, product and government.
Sets national digital-transformation direction and government ICT policy, and architects large-scale secure citizen platforms. Leads 45 engineers and consultants, coordinates over 200 domain experts, and manages 30-plus vendor partnerships. Builds delivery synergies with UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, the EU and USAID, and aligns national programmes to ISO, ITIL and TOGAF.
Drove product development from concept to commercialisation, led cross-functional teams through launch, and implemented IT solutions across supply chain and manufacturing.
Led program and engineering execution under Agile and LEAN, covering software and hardware design, redesign and design transfer in compliance with FDA, MDR, MDD and ISO. Acting CCB chair and reviewer for investigations, CAPAs, non-conformities and concessions. Directed multicultural teams across the United States, India, China, Mexico and Finland.
Owned backlog, release planning, scope and budget for global patient-monitoring software, and led development of test infrastructure for Mobile Digital Health patient monitors — including clinical parameter validation, system testing and reliability testing.
System and test-infrastructure architecture across a global team of more than 100 engineers. Verification planning and delivery for the CARESCAPE and CS ONE platform releases, plus an offshore test-automation team in India.
Eight years of software engineering across mobile platforms and network technologies.
Application support and delivery for consumer-finance systems.
Research and course development in GPRS mobile-data technology.
05 Credentials
Finnish engineering education, international project-management certification, and the delivery toolchain behind twenty years of shipped systems.
Toolchain & technologies
06 Contact
Open to advisory work, programme leadership, speaking invitations and media enquiries — in Finland, in Bangladesh, or wherever the work is.