About Me Last updated: 2026-02-20

Growing up in Bangladesh, I was the kind of kid who would disassemble anything with a circuit board just to see how it worked — and occasionally manage to put it back together. My earliest memories with computers involved endlessly tweaking desktop themes, writing tiny batch scripts that did absolutely nothing useful, and convincing myself that changing the wallpaper counted as "hacking." That sense of curiosity never really faded; it just found better outlets.

I'm Miskatul Anwar, currently pursuing my undergraduate degree at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Chittagong. Alongside my studies, I work as a research assistant at BIKE Labs CSECU (Big Data Knowledge Engineering), where I get to explore the intersection of large-scale data systems and intelligent computing — the kind of work that makes you forget what time it is until the call to prayer reminds you.

Languages & Low-Level Fascination

I fell in love with Rust the way most people fall in love with bad ideas — completely and without warning. There's something deeply satisfying about a language that refuses to compile until you've genuinely understood your own code. My RustaceanUp repository is essentially a journal of that obsession: convex hull algorithms, Mandelbrot set renderers, async runtimes, and a mini-grep that I'm unreasonably proud of. Before Rust, Python was my daily driver — from Flask web apps and Pygame platformers to quick-and-dirty automation scripts that saved me hours of tedious work. I've also spent a fair amount of time with C/C++, Shell scripting, and even Assembly — because sometimes you need to understand what the machine is actually doing underneath all the abstractions.

Competitive Programming

I'm an active competitive programmer on Codeforces (handle: miskatul.anwar.csecu), where I've achieved an Expert rating of 1785 and solved over 248 problems. I've participated in team contests on Kattis and spent countless late nights grinding through combinatorics, number theory, and graph problems. There's a peculiar kind of joy in reducing a seemingly impossible problem to an elegant thirty-line solution at 3 AM — followed by the immediate realization that you have a class in four hours.

Systems, Security & Tinkering

Linux is home. I've been a daily driver for years, and my dotfiles are probably more carefully curated than my wardrobe. I'm deeply interested in penetration testing and cybersecurity — the kind of work where you get to think like an adversary and then build defenses against yourself. I've been steadily learning Docker, Apache2, and Nginx to better understand how production systems are deployed and, more interestingly, how they break. I also dabble in picoCTF challenges for fun — there's always another flag hiding somewhere.

Machine Learning & Research

My work at BIKE Labs has drawn me into the world of machine learning and big data engineering. I work primarily with PyTorch and CUDA, building and training models that can find patterns in datasets far too large for any human to parse by hand. There's a philosophical edge to ML that I find fascinating — the idea that you can teach a mathematical function to "understand" something, even if that understanding is fundamentally different from our own.

Beyond the Terminal

When I'm not staring at a terminal, I enjoy getting lost in a good anime (the username Ghost and the Geass icon probably gave that away), exploring obscure corners of the internet for fun trivia — did you know the Night's Watch cloaks in Game of Thrones were made from IKEA rugs? — and occasionally attempting to build small games just to see if I can. I believe the best engineers are the ones who never quite stopped being curious kids, and I try to carry that energy into everything I do.

If any of this resonates, feel free to reach out. I'm always happy to talk about Rust, competitive programming, security research, or why monospace fonts are objectively the best fonts.