Experience — Mashiur Rahman, Ph.D. · CTO & VP Engineering Track Record

● Current · Aug 2017 — Present

Engineering Manager — Digital Platforms & AI

Omron Healthcare · Singapore & Japan · Regional HQ, Asia‑Pacific Current role since Aug 2017 · Engineering leadership for digital platforms, AI, and connected health Dual scope · Japan technology leadership in Japanese + Asia‑Pacific engineering expansion

Dual leadership mandate — 50% Japan‑based technology lead conducting executive business in Japanese; 50% Asia‑Pacific Engineering Head with regional decision‑making authority across 10+ markets. End‑to‑end ownership of engineering strategy, AI integration roadmap, platform architecture, and team scaling for Omron's digital‑health business.

Platform & AI engineering

Architected and delivered a multi‑tenant cloud platform across AWS, Azure, and GCP — supporting B2B and B2C data services and integrating device data streams, mobile apps, and third‑party APIs into a unified data layer.
Drove enterprise adoption of AI agents and LLM‑based capabilities — established the AI integration roadmap, evaluated orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex), and selected architectures for production deployment.
Led connected health platform initiatives reflected in an OMRON data review covering 43,000+ blood pressure readings from around 340 active users across Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam, with hypertensive users showing 10 mmHg average systolic improvement within 12 months.
Delivered 15 prototype solutions and 17 production proofs‑of‑concept with partners across Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, and India — accelerating time‑to‑market and validating business models before full investment.

Japan operations & executive leadership

Conducts all Japan‑side business in Japanese — executive presentations, partner negotiations, technical reviews, and cross‑functional alignment with Omron Japan leadership.
Manages Japanese engineering partners and vendors, ensuring delivery aligned with Japan's quality and process standards.
Serves as the primary technology interface between Omron Japan HQ and Asia‑Pacific country teams — translating strategic direction into actionable engineering roadmaps.
Leverages 20+ years of immersive Japanese language and professional experience to bridge Japan HQ priorities with regional AP execution.

Asia‑Pacific engineering expansion

Holds regional decision‑making authority as AP Engineering Head — evaluating technology investment opportunities, selecting strategic markets, and defining the engineering approach for business expansion.
Leads and coordinates country‑level engineering heads and teams across APAC markets — aligning technology capabilities with commercial growth objectives.
Led the engineering build‑out and launch of HeartVoice — a $16M Omron spin‑off venture — securing investment, assembling the engineering team, defining the technology stack, and overseeing full platform delivery from concept to commercial product.
Worked closely across APAC markets from India to New Zealand with telemedicine service providers, digital health startups, and government institutes — helping bring digital healthcare initiatives into real operating environments and developing a practical understanding of the regional healthcare ecosystem.
Ran clinical trials and proof‑of‑concept work in the United States with Highmark, gaining exposure to the insurance ecosystem, and collaborated with Tricog in the Philippines and India on building and validating their business model.
Drives technology and business expansion strategy across Singapore, Vietnam, India, and broader APAC — identifying growth opportunities and deploying the right architecture to capture them.

Security, risk & compliance governance

Established a Security‑by‑Design framework across all software development workstreams — embedding threat modelling, access control, and data encryption standards into the SDLC from day one.
Owned risk management across the platform portfolio — risk assessments, mitigation strategies, audit‑ready documentation aligned to ISO 13485, GDPR, PDPA, HIPAA, and ASEAN data‑privacy regulations.
Led the HeartVoice team through regulatory and quality workstreams, authoring end‑to‑end compliance processes that enabled the spin‑off to achieve ISO 13485 and related regulatory certification on an accelerated timeline — now a repeatable framework.
Directed regulatory data‑governance compliance for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Team leadership & engineering culture

Built, mentored, and scaled cross‑functional engineering teams across Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, and India — establishing agile delivery, code‑review culture, and engineering KPIs.
Holds full budget ownership for engineering operations — consistently delivering 5–15% cost reductions through strategic outsourcing and vendor optimisation without compromising delivery.
Served as Strategic Technology Advisor to the HeartVoice spin‑off venture — providing architectural direction, technology roadmapping, and hands‑on leadership to the engineering team.

Technology stack & frameworks

AWS
Azure
GCP
AI Agents · LLMs
LangChain · LlamaIndex
Microservices
Kubernetes · Docker
Python · TypeScript · Java
REST · B2B APIs
Tableau · Power BI
ISO 13485
GDPR · PDPA · HIPAA

Headline achievements

Led the engineering build‑out of HeartVoice — $16M Omron spin‑off, concept to commercial product
Converted 5 concept‑stage business models into revenue‑generating commercial products
Reduced platform development costs 15% via distributed‑team strategy (Vietnam, India)
Supported connected health programs across 5 APAC markets, with published OMRON data showing 43,000+ readings and 10 mmHg average systolic improvement in hypertensive users within 12 months
Recipient — Omron Global Challenger Award 2018
Architected enterprise AI roadmap adopted across APAC business units

02Earlier career

Two decades across research, startups, and academia.

Aug 2016 — Aug 2017

Project Manager — Cloud Consulting

Singapore · Cloud advisory

Delivered cloud architecture and migration engagements for enterprise clients — including AWS adoption strategies, multi‑region deployments, and cost optimisation programmes.

Jul 2015 — Jul 2016

Project Manager — Digital Healthcare

ConnectedHealth, Singapore · Customer Data Platform

Dual product / engineering manager. Designed a flexible Customer Data Platform integrating medical devices and sensors. Won a $200K commercial contract via trade‑show demonstration; reduced software development costs 25% via India‑based outsourcing without missing deadlines.

Nov 2013 — Jun 2015

R&D Engineer / Scientist

National University of Singapore (Duke‑NUS)

Neuroscience & behavioural disorders programme — designed and built behavioural assays and data analysis pipelines, supervised polytechnic and undergraduate research students, contributed to peer‑reviewed publications in Current Biology and Neurobiology of Learning & Memory.

Aug 2011 — Oct 2013

R&D Engineer / Scientist

A*STAR — Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

Applied research in biomedical instrumentation and behavioural systems. Recognised with the ISIF Asia Award (2013) and selected as ISIF Asia Ambassador to ICANN 49 in Singapore (2014).

Jun 2010 — Jul 2011

R&D Engineer / Scientist

National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) · Okazaki, Japan

Postdoctoral research on optogenetic ion‑channel measurement systems and planar patch‑clamp instrumentation. Conducted entirely in Japanese.

Jan 2008 — May 2010

CTO & Director · Assistant Professor

Adroit Technology & North‑South University · Bangladesh

Held a dual industry/academia role. As CTO, led product engineering for IP telephony and embedded systems. As Assistant Professor, taught EECS courses, supervised 12+ undergraduate and graduate theses spanning VoIP, GPS tracking, mobile IP, and grid computing.

Nov 2005 — Dec 2007

R&D Engineer / Scientist · Postdoctoral Fellow

Marshall University · West Virginia, USA

Biosensor and DNA‑array research. Co‑authored invited papers on molecular lithography and nanosensing in Proceedings of SPIE and IEEE Sensors Journal.

Apr 2002 — Oct 2005

Electrical Engineer

Institute of Molecular Science (IMS) · Okazaki, Japan

Synchrotron radiation processing and biosensor substrate fabrication. First‑author publications in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics and Chemical Physics Letters. Conducted in Japanese.

03Foundations & recognition

Education, awards, and certifications.

All university education completed in Japan, in Japanese — from associate's degree through Ph.D.

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship — Chemistry (Biosensors & Signal Processing) Marshall University, West Virginia, USA · Dec 2007
Ph.D., Physics — Biosensors & Measurement Systems Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan · Sep 2005
M.Sc., Electrical & Electronics Engineering Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan · Mar 2002
B.Sc., Electrical & Electronics Engineering Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan · Mar 2000
Associate of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Nara National College of Technology, Japan · Mar 1998

Awards & honours

Omron Global Challenger Award Omron Corporation, Japan · 2018
Best Engineering Project Temasek Polytechnic · 2014
ISIF Asia Ambassador — ICANN 49 Information Society Innovation Fund · 2014
ISIF Asia Award Information Society Innovation Fund · 2013
Rotary Fellow of Japan Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation · 2000–2002
Japanese Government Monbusho Scholarship Government of Japan · 1994–1998

Certifications & professional training

CISSP — In Progress
ML in Healthcare · Northeastern University, 2025
ML Foundations for PMs · Duke University, 2025
What is Data Science · IBM, 2025
Machine Learning & AI · AWS Workshop, 2022
Hands‑On Data Protection Officer Training, 2022
Data Management Fundamentals, 2014
SolidWorks Essentials, 2012
LabVIEW Core 1·2·3 + Machine Vision, 2011
Comprehensive MATLAB, 2011