Md Showkat Hossain Chy

Software engineer — Seattle, Washington

Builds systems where correctness is the hard part.

Seven years on distributed systems and machine learning over large graphs, with earlier work on firmware running under fixed memory and power budgets. The common thread is correctness under concurrency, failure, and scale.

Md Showkat Hossain Chy, Software engineer in Seattle, Washington, USA

Built systems at

Latest

  1. Started as founder and engineer at a stealth AI startup in Seattle, building an agentic platform over municipal records and permit filings.

  2. Wrapped up at AWS Infrastructure Supply Chain after shipping the hardware system of record and its event-driven reconciliation service.

  3. "Multivocal Study on Microservice Dependencies" published in the Journal of Systems and Software. Read on ScienceDirect

  4. Paper on tuning fuzzy c-means in a VAE-based GNN approach presented at IEEE/ACM ASE 2024. Read on the ACM Digital Library

What I work on

Distributed and cloud

Event-driven services that reconcile dropped, duplicated, and out-of-order updates across regions. Graph and document data modelling, versioned APIs, and the observability needed to prove a consistency commitment.

Graph machine learning

Graph neural networks and variational autoencoders over large dependency graphs, with clustering to recover latent structure, and reproducible benchmarks to measure the result against.

Embedded and firmware

FreeRTOS firmware and device drivers in C and C++ over SPI, UART, and I2C. Bluetooth Low Energy and GATT control and data planes, rollback-safe over-the-air updates, and profiling under fixed memory and power budgets.

Selected work

Chosen for the difficulty of the problem, not how recent it is

source A source B source C dropped, duplicated, out of order queue reconciler detect, replay system of record divergence replayed inside 24 h

Reconciling an event stream that drops, duplicates, and reorders

Amazon Web Services, infrastructure supply chain2025 – 2026

The hardware system of record carried a 24-hour consistency commitment while taking asynchronous updates from more than fifteen cross-region systems. An event-driven reconciliation service detected divergence and replayed it safely, so the commitment was something the system held rather than something the design asserted.

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • EventBridge
  • SQS
  • AWS Batch
  • DynamoDB
24 h
consistency commitment, held
15+
cross-region systems integrated
60% → 90%
integration test coverage
changed part assemblies bills of material products sites millions of nodes, traversed before release

Change impact as a graph traversal, not a lookup

Amazon Web Services, infrastructure supply chain2025 – 2026

Millions of hardware components, assemblies, and bills of material modelled as a graph, so that asking what a change breaks could be answered across products, sites, and programs before the change shipped. A rules engine evaluated site, region, and program policy from declarative configuration.

  • Amazon Neptune
  • DynamoDB
  • GraphQL
  • React
  • TypeScript
60%
gain in hardware qualification efficiency
100+
manufacturing sites onboarded without per-class code
bytecode 10M+ tx opcode, control flow map across cluster workers features anomaly detection

Feature extraction across ten million transactions

Baylor University, graduate research2022 – 2023

Distributed pipelines extracting opcode and control-flow features from Solidity bytecode, then training anomaly-detection models over the result. At that volume the extraction step, not the model, decides whether the experiment is runnable at all.

  • Python
  • PySpark
  • MapReduce
  • Amazon EMR
  • PyTorch
65%
improvement in analysis efficiency
10M+
transactions processed
one 15 ms frame, repeating sample filter, classify gatt notify slack deadline held sample filter, classify fixed memory and power budget races and timing defects found on the instruction stream with JTAG and Trace32

Sensor streaming that cannot miss a 15 ms deadline

Samsung Research, wearable platform2018 – 2021

Heart-rate, stress, and sleep tracking across more than 90 exercise modes, on a microcontroller whose memory and power budgets were fixed before the work started. Races and timing defects at that level leave nothing in a log, so they were found on the running instruction stream with JTAG and Trace32.

  • C
  • C++
  • FreeRTOS
  • BLE
  • GATT
  • JTAG
15 ms
streaming cadence held
2M+
devices shipped, no known production defects
99%
rollback-safe update success, zero bricked devices

Publications

All 12 publications
  1. Multivocal Study on Microservice Dependencies

    A. S. Abdelfattah, T. Cerny, M. S. H. Chy, M. A. Uddin, S. Perry, C. Brown, J. Yero, K. Sooksatra

    JSS 2025 volume 222, article 112334 Read on ScienceDirect

    doi 10.1016/j.jss.2025.112334

  2. Using Static Analysis to Aid Monolith to Microservice System Transformation: Tuning Fuzzy c-Means in a VAE-Based GNN Approach

    K. Sooksatra, M. S. H. Chy, M. A. R. Arju, T. Cerny, P. Rivas

    IEEE/ACM ASE 2024 Read on ACM Digital Library

    doi 10.1145/3691621.3694933

  3. Benchmarking Micro2Micro Transformation: An Approach with Graph Neural Networks and Variational Autoencoders

    M. S. H. Chy, K. Sooksatra, J. Yero, T. Cerny

    Cluster Computing 2024 volume 27, number 4, pages 4171–4185 Read on SpringerLink

    doi 10.1007/s10586-024-04526-z

  4. A Multi-variant Benchmark for Microservice Systems in Software Engineering Research

    T. Cerny, M. S. H. Chy, M. A. R. Arju, K. Sooksatra, A. S. Abdelfattah, V. Lenarduzzi

    ECSA 2024 pages 21–29 Read on SpringerLink

    doi 10.1007/978-3-031-71246-3_3

  5. Comparative Evaluation of Java Virtual Machine-Based Message Queue Services: A Study on Kafka, Artemis, Pulsar, and RocketMQ

    M. S. H. Chy, M. A. R. Arju, S. M. Tella, T. Cerny

    Electronics 2023 volume 12, article 4792 Read on MDPI

    doi 10.3390/electronics12234792

Writing

All posts

Experience

Full CV
  1. May 2026 – present

    Founder and Engineer current

    Stealth AI startup, Seattle, Washington

    An agentic AI platform that monitors municipal records, council agendas, zoning dockets, and permit filings across U.S. cities, converting them into early business signals for commercial real estate and multi-site operators.

  2. Jan 2025 – Apr 2026

    Software Development Engineer, AWS Infrastructure Supply Chain

    Amazon Web Services, Seattle, Washington

    Hardware system of record for AWS data centres and device manufacturing: graph modelling in Neptune, event-driven reconciliation, and a configuration-driven rules engine behind a GraphQL interface.

  3. Mar – Dec 2024

    Research Associate II, Software Engineering

    CloudHubs Lab, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

    Led the lab's graph-learning line — graph neural networks and variational autoencoders over static-analysis dependency graphs — and released a multi-variant benchmark suite for architecture research.

  4. Mar – Dec 2024

    Full-Stack Developer, International Collegiate Programming Contest

    ICPC Foundation, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

    Contest-management platform in Spring Boot, React, and PostgreSQL serving more than 50,000 students a year across 50+ regions, made multi-tenant so regional managers publish independently.

    Held alongside the CloudHubs research appointment.

  5. May – Aug 2023

    Software Engineer, Summer Intern

    Tyson Foods, Springdale, Arkansas

    Unreal Engine virtual-reality quality-inspection training for 200+ manufacturing personnel, with 3D asset generation automated from two weeks to ten minutes.

    A summer internship during the Baylor appointment.

  6. Jan 2022 – Dec 2023

    Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Computer Science

    Baylor University, Waco, Texas

    Distributed pipelines on Amazon EMR, a controlled evaluation of four JVM message queues, and an ACID transaction manager; taught software engineering and C++ to 125 students across five sections.

  7. Jul 2018 – Dec 2021

    Software Engineer, Wearable Platform

    Samsung Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    FreeRTOS firmware and drivers, the Bluetooth Low Energy and GATT planes, and rollback-safe over-the-air updates for wearables shipped to more than two million devices.

  8. Jan – Jun 2018

    Software Engineer

    Divine IT Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Django, DRF, and PostgreSQL enterprise resource planning modules across payroll, HR, inventory, sales, and procurement for 5,000+ daily users.

Contact

Email
mdshowkathossainchy@gmail.com
Code
github.com/showkat2203
Papers
Google Scholar profile
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CV
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Status
U.S. Permanent Resident