sabbir.khan

About

From Dhaka to drone control — twelve years of shipping.

I didn’t start my career by joining a company — I started by building one. In 2012, fresh out of my CSE degree in Dhaka, I founded Power GP BD and led it for six years. We shipped more than 100 Android applications across enterprise, B2B and consumer verticals, and earned two awards from the Facebook Startup Program along the way. One of our apps, a multimedia product called Theatre, crossed 500,000 downloads on the Play Store. Running a company taught me the thing no job could: how to own an outcome completely.

Then I went deep on craft. At Kutumbita I designed and built Kinship.ai — a real-time communication platform for the garments industry — entirely on my own, from architecture through Play Store release. At Samsung R&D I worked at consumer scale as Lead Software Engineer II: health-tracking apps in the Samsung Health ecosystem, WearOS companions syncing losslessly over BLE to Tizen watches, and even feature work in the SmartThings iOS app.

In 2022 I joined Plentina, a US fintech bringing Buy-Now-Pay-Later to the Philippines and Vietnam. I led the Android side — payment gateway integrations, Kotlin Flow state management, and a full migration to Jetpack Compose while Compose was still in beta.

Today I’m in Singapore at Avetics, a drone-technology company, where I own the ground-up rewrite of the flagship DJI drone-control application — real-time video, TCP socket infrastructure, autonomous flight — and set the architecture standards for the Android team I mentor.

And because founding never really leaves you, I’ve gone back to it from the other side: as an equity CTO for early-stage startups, building complete products for founders who can’t yet afford a technical team — and as a trainer, selected by Google, to 100+ developers across Asia.

What’s next? Three doors are open: a senior/staff/lead Android role anywhere in the world, building your product as a client, or partnering as your startup’s CTO. Pick one — the CV is below either way.

From the archive

Earlier work — the Power GP and Kutumbita years.

A few survivors from the 100+ apps era. These shipped years ago and are no longer in the store — they’re here because they’re where the reps came from.

Three screens from the Calcin-O MaxPro Football Fantasy 2018 Android app: the launch screen, a match-of-the-day card for Russia versus Saudi Arabia, and the 2018 World Cup group listings.

Football Fantasy 2018

Power GP BD · client app, 2018 World Cup

Kinship.ai store graphic headlined “Message our chatbot any time, 24/7”, showing the app home screen greeting an employee and inviting a request such as needing leave.

Kinship.ai — always-on assistant

Kutumbita · built solo, end to end

Kinship.ai store graphic headlined “Give feedback, report an issue or apply for leave”, showing a grid of shortcuts for feedback, issues, leave, salary, attendance, policy, learning, health and insurance.

Kinship.ai — self-service

Kutumbita · workforce platform

Kinship.ai store graphic headlined “AI powered workplace assistant providing instant responses”, showing a chat where a worker reports damaged machinery that has stopped the line and is offered a photo upload.

Kinship.ai — issue reporting

Kutumbita · Socket.io + FCM

The route

  1. 2007 – 2012

    B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka.

  2. 2012 – 2018

    Founded Power GP BD — 100+ apps shipped, two Facebook Startup Program awards, and Theatre: 500K+ downloads.

  3. 2018 – 2019

    Kutumbita — built the Kinship.ai communication platform solo, from architecture to Play Store.

  4. 2019 – 2022

    Samsung R&D — Lead Software Engineer II. Samsung Health, WearOS companions, SmartThings iOS.

  5. 2022

    Plentina (US fintech, remote) — led Android for a BNPL product live in the Philippines and Vietnam.

  6. 2022 – now

    Avetics, Singapore — owning the full rewrite of a mission-critical DJI drone-control platform.

  7. Alongside

    Equity CTO for early-stage startups, and trainer to 100+ developers — selected by Google.