Arif Adito.
Scaling startups into market leaders across SaaS, OTT, and Fintech with 15+ years of strategic impact.
I run Bangladesh for tapmad — building an OTT business from 0→1 in one of the world's most price-sensitive streaming markets: go-to-market, telco and payment partnerships, and the recurring-revenue engine behind them.
Fifteen years across OTT, SaaS, Fintech and Telecom — UAE, MENA, APAC and the UK. And I build with AI rather than talk about it: I pretrained a Bangla-focused language model end-to-end in Rust for $164, then published what broke.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
15+ years of strategic impact.
A track record of scaling businesses from zero to market leaders across diverse industries.
Building the future.
Forging paths in technology, creative excellence, and open-access AI systems research.
Adioris Tech Ltd
A global technology powerhouse specializing in AI-driven solutions, digital transformation, and strategic consultancy. Bridging international expertise with local innovation.
LLM & Systems Research
Two arXiv papers: pure Rust end-to-end LM pretraining (arXiv: 2609.25008) and identity-anchored LLM architectures (arXiv: 2604.00009). Exploring frontiers in ML framework failure modes & cognitive modeling.
What I'm building.
Everything I'm building — status pulled live from GitHub and Hugging Face.
Noor
From-scratch Bangla-first hybrid language model — linear attention + mixture-of-experts, trained end-to-end.
Eyla AIOS
Offline, Bangla-first agentic AI operating system that runs fully on consumer hardware.
Gradient-Flow Arbiter
Verification harness that catches silent ML training bugs before compute is spent.
Eyla Identity Paper
Identity-anchored LLM architecture with the Identity Consistency Score (ICS) benchmark.
AdiTurbo
Low-bit model quantization engine — sub-3-bit models that stay coherent.
Eyla Tool-Calling Models
On-device English / Bangla / Banglish tool-calling fine-tunes.
ADI
Predictive AI with a closed observe → predict → correct loop.
MeshGPU
Peer-to-peer GPU rental marketplace.
Tapmad Anti-Piracy
OTT content-protection platform running in production.
Written here, not gatekept.
Long-form research published directly, with every source listed and every unverified claim marked as such. No preprint queue, no paywall.
Latest Research & Publications.
Training a Language Model End-to-End in Rust: An Experience Report
Failure Taxonomy of Candle & Burn Backends, Gradient-Flow Verification, and Lessons from a $164 Pure Rust LM Pretraining Run.
An honest evaluation of pure Rust ML frameworks without PyTorch or Python in the training loop. Documents 5 Candle defects, 3 Burn defects, silent gradient failure modes, and gradient-flow verification discipline.
Eyla: Toward an Identity-Anchored LLM Architecture
Vision, Implementation Attempt, and Lessons from AI-Assisted Development with Integrated Biological Priors.
Proposes Identity Consistency Score (ICS) for evaluating coherent self-models under adversarial prompt pressure.
Integrated biologically-inspired HiPPO state-space models and zero-initialized adapters. Includes honest analysis of AI-assisted development failure modes.
Professional Certifications.
40+ credentials across product, marketing, AI, data, and leadership — verified on LinkedIn
Claude Code 101
Aug 2026Anthropic
Agentic coding with Claude Code — Anthropic Academy
NewGoogle Project Management: Specialization
Dec 20246 course certificates incl. Agile PM & Capstone
Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce
Feb 2025Google Business Intelligence
Feb 2025Meta Certified Digital Marketing Associate
Feb 2025Meta
Leading People and Teams
Feb 2025University of Michigan
Web3 & Blockchain Leadership for Transformation
Jan 2025INSEAD
Introduction to Generative AI
Dec 2024Salesforce Sales Operations
2024Pathstream
Making headlines.
Recognition and coverage of market expansion milestones and strategic partnerships globally.
The Express Tribune
Pakistan's Tapmad enters Bangladesh market with Grameenphone
Coverage of Tapmad's strategic entry into the Bangladesh market through a major telecom partnership.
PhoneWorld
Tapmad strengthens regional presence through partnership with Robi Axiata
Highlighting the expansion of Tapmad's footprint in South Asia.
SAMENA Council
Pakistan's Tapmad expands to Bangladesh in partnership with Grameenphone
Industry recognition of the cross-border strategic collaboration.
Ready to build the future.
Currently exploring high-impact leadership roles in UAE, MENA, and global markets. Let's catalyze your next phase of growth together.
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