MD. Rafid Khan

Robotics Engineer, Wireless Communication & Computer Vision

Computer Science & Engineering graduate of BRAC University, specializing in wireless communication and computer vision for autonomous systems. Former Team Lead of BRACU Mongol-Tori, the university's Mars rover team, with three consecutive years of University Rover Challenge experience. Actively mentor undergraduate students in robotics and intelligent systems and Co-founder of a community led initiative BOT Engineers.

Dhaka, Bangladesh / Email / Phone / Github / CV

MD. Rafid Khan

Projects

Jogajog: A communication platform during 2024's internet outage

Daily Star coverage

  • A communication platform run under physically interconnected nodes, built with NextJS and MySQL.
  • The platform used the broadband connection, allowing 34,000+ users to communicate during the internet outage of student protests of July 2024.
May 2024

Shohojatri: split fare, share ride!

reverseRAFID/Shohojatri

  • The innovative ride-sharing service that makes daily life easy and economical.
  • An academic project for CSE370: Database Management, CSE, BRAC University.
Auguest 2026

RC Gear BD

Full-Stack E-Commerce Platform

  • Built and shipped a full-stack e-commerce platform for RC hobby gear, spanning a Go/Gin REST API and a Next.js App Router storefront, with the entire local and deployment environment containerized via Docker Compose.
  • Designed the relational schema and data layer in PostgreSQL covering products, categories, orders, coupons, quotes, and user accounts, with migrations and documented schema/architecture references maintained alongside the code.
  • Implemented the complete customer journey — catalog browsing, product detail pages, cart, checkout, and order tracking — plus an admin dashboard with sales reporting, banner management, coupon administration, and image uploads.
  • Delivered authentication and authorization with OAuth-based sign-in and role-based access control, hardened by request rate limiting and a dedicated security test suite.
  • Integrated third-party courier and pricing/quotation flows to automate delivery cost calculation and order fulfillment.
  • Migrated the frontend from Vite to the Next.js App Router, restructuring routing and rendering to enable server components and improve SEO and initial load performance.
  • Established a design system and reusable component library (shadcn/ui + Tailwind) for consistent UI across storefront and admin surfaces.
  • Wrote Go unit and integration tests across pricing, quoting, security, and HTTP handler layers, and maintained living documentation

Competition Experience

Jun 2026

University Rover Challenge 2026

The Mars Society, Utah, USA

  • Placed 7th among 116 international teams as Team Lead, owning comms/vision subsystem strategy and cross-team technical direction.
Jun 2025

University Rover Challenge 2025

The Mars Society, Utah, USA

  • Placed 8th among 118 international teams.
  • Co-Team Lead: responsible for rover-to-command-station communications, real-time visual-feed analysis, and coordination of mission operations.
Jun 2024

University Rover Challenge 2024

The Mars Society, Utah, USA

  • Placed 21st, serving as Network and Vision Sub-Team Lead, responsible for rover-to-command-station communication and real-time visual feed analysis.
2022

Mission Oz 2022

Team Enigma Systems

  • Placed 9th
2016

National High School Programming Contest 2016

Junior Category

  • Placed 21st
2015

National High School Programming Contest 2015

Secondary Category

  • Placed 11th