Professional Resume · Updated September 2026

Tawsif Elahy

Founder & Product Lead, EduLens

Summary

Product and operations builder working across a startup I founded, an education company at scale, and a Business Administration degree, developing execution discipline alongside product judgement.

For product, strategy, operations and founder's office roles.

Product direction
Operations and execution
Research to decision
Cross-functional coordination

Experience

Junior Executive, Operations · Shikho

2026, Present

Understanding how education operates at scale.

Operational execution. Supporting day-to-day operational work and helping tasks move from planning into execution.
Coordination. Working across people, information, and processes where clear communication and follow-through matter.
Problem solving. Responding to practical operational needs rather than only theoretical product questions.
Reliability. Learning the discipline required to execute consistently inside an established organization.

Founder & Product Lead · EduLens

November 2025, Present

Building the Student Operating System.

Product direction. Turning hundreds of user conversations into product decisions, priorities, workflows, and a focused MVP.
Customer discovery. Leading 500+ conversations with students, guardians, international students, counselors, education stakeholders, and study-abroad experts.
Product simplification. Reducing a broad vision of roughly 40 tools and concepts into a much more focused, executable product direction.
Prototyping and shipping. Using basic design, technical understanding, and AI-assisted building to create prototypes when speed mattered more than perfect resources.
Team building. Recruiting, rebuilding, working with technical and industry talent, and learning hard lessons about ownership and co-founder responsibility.
Distribution and outreach. Building relationships with students, ambassadors, experts, mentors, founders, partners, programs, and potential supporters.
Strategy. Thinking beyond features into trust, behavior, distribution, retention, partnerships, market structure, and long-term positioning.

Business Administration · North South University

Present

Learning business while building a company in parallel.

Business Administration. Studying markets, incentives, strategy, organizations, and distribution.
Building in parallel. Running EduLens alongside coursework rather than after it.

Recognition

LvLUp Ventures × Zendesk CX Innovation Challenge · Cohort 2 — Selected startupLvLUp Ventures × Zendesk · 2026
One Million Leaders Asia Fellowship 2026 — Fellow, full scholarshipOne Million Leaders Asia · 2026
Accelerating Bangladesh Startup & Scaleup Program — GraduateAccelerating Bangladesh · 2026
Bangladesh National Demo Days 2026 — Selected presenterBangladesh Startup Ecosystem · 2026
AI Integrated Leadership Program · Cohort 1 — GraduateAspire Institute · 2026
University Innovation Hub Program · Innovation Cohort 1 — Completed · NSU IC-1University Innovation Hub Program (UIHP) · 2026
University Innovation Hub Program · Pre-seed funding — BDT 20,000 non-dilutive pre-seedUniversity Innovation Hub Program / NSU IC-1 · 2026
LvlUp Ventures · Power of the Pitch Week — Selected startupLvlUp Ventures · 2026
Technopreneurship 2026 · AI Startup Incubation — Selected, Final PhaseGigalogy · 2026
Innovation World Cup 2026 · Bangladesh National Round — Silver MedalInnovation World Cup Bangladesh / Dreams of Bangladesh · 2026
UIHP National Innovation Challenge · Startup Showcase — ShowcaseUniversity Innovation Hub Program (UIHP) · 2026
One Million Leaders Asia Champions Fellowship 2025 — Champion FellowOne Million Leaders Asia · 2025
Aspire Leaders Program — AlumnusAspire Institute · 2025

Capabilities

Operational thinking
Execution discipline
Cross-functional coordination
Organizational awareness
Education-industry understanding
Process thinking
Professional communication
Working inside established systems