Hasnaeen Rizvi Rahman
Founder & CEO, Astha IT
Hasnaeen Rizvi Rahman was only in his mid-twenties when he founded Astha IT. Over the decade, Astha IT made its way to the top and grew up to be a global service provider, having clients in the United States, Australia, and Europe, winning multiple awards from BASIS and the government of Bangladesh. Today Astha IT is a tech giant and the top software exporter in the country, employing and mentoring hundreds of engineers.
A passionate problem solver by heart, Hasnaeen became a self-taught programmer by ninth grade, and within two years, he sold his first commercial software to a buying house. As an outstanding academic, he passed a summa cum laude from North South University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
Aiming to build the country's Internet ecosystem and provide an array of life-changing tech services to a population of 200 million, Hasnaeen founded a venture studio in the United States called Strings in 2021 that is working on a series of startups. The first of the startups called CHAKRI.app has been launched and is gaining traction.
As an avid reader and lover of literature, Hasnaeen plans to publish his first novel in 2023.