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Coaching & mentoring

Better decisions begin with better attention.

A reflective, ethical space for technology leaders, practitioners, teams, students and founders to clarify what matters and move forward with intention.

Coaching

Your thinking. Your direction.

Coaching uses questions, reflection and accountability to help you discover your own choices. It is particularly useful for leadership transitions, confidence, priorities and complex decisions.

  • Leadership clarity and intentional action
  • Career transition and professional identity
  • Team and stakeholder challenges

Mentoring

Experience, shared in context.

Mentoring draws on relevant experience to help you understand options, anticipate trade-offs and build capability. It is useful for cloud-native careers, architecture growth and community leadership.

  • Cloud, platform and DevSecOps careers
  • Architecture and technical leadership
  • Community, speaking and professional visibility

Mentoring experience

A sustained contribution across professional and technical communities.

Formal and community mentoring spans global programmes, professional chapters, cloud-native communities and internal employee development.

  1. Jul 2026–present

    Mentor and Lead Trainer, DevSecOps

    Cyber Security Center of Excellence (CCoE) Bangladesh

    Helping young practitioners to develop cloud-native and DevSecOps capability.

  2. Jun 2026 – Jun 2026

    Mentor and Lead Trainer, DevSecOps

    Phoenix Summit 2026, Bangladesh

    Helping young practitioners to develop cloud-native and DevSecOps capability.

  3. Jun 2025–present

    Mentor

    Global Mentorship Initiative (GMI)

    Supporting mentees through a structured global mentorship programme.

  4. May 2025 – Jun 2025

    Mentor and Lead Trainer, DevSecOps

    Phoenix Summit 2025, Bangladesh

    Helping young practitioners to develop cloud-native and DevSecOps capability.

  5. 2024–present

    Mentor

    PMI Bangladesh Chapter

    Contributing mentoring support within the chapter's professional community.

  6. 2024–present

    Community Mentor

    Cloud Native Bangladesh

    Helping practitioners and emerging professionals develop cloud-native capability.

  7. 2024–present

    Community Mentor

    Cloud Native Rajshahi

    Supporting regional learning, professional development and cloud-native participation.

  8. 2019–present

    Mentor

    IEEE

    Sharing professional and technical guidance through the IEEE community.

  9. 2006–2022

    Internal Employee Mentor

    Ericsson

    Shared experience and practical guidance with colleagues through internal employee mentoring.

Ethical boundary

Clear about the mode of support.

A conversation is identified as coaching, mentoring, advisory or training so expectations stay clear. Confidentiality, respect, consent and appropriate referral boundaries guide the relationship.

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