Published research
Journal of Earth System Science
Lead author on a paper published by Springer in 2026. Getting through peer review is the same discipline a good build needs: show the evidence, or do not make the claim.
Read the paper ↗The short version
Two careers, one habit of solving things.
Ziad trained as a geologist. His postgraduate research reconstructed how a major river system in the Bengal Basin rebuilt itself over centuries, using satellite imagery, terrain analysis and sediment collected by hand from 26 excavation sites.
The coding started as a side problem. Sharing a mess with other students meant somebody had to track the meals, the bazar money and who owed what at the end of the month. The spreadsheets never held up, so he learned Java, then Dart and Flutter, and built the thing properly. That app became Bachelors' Meal Manager, and Red Z Apps grew out of it.
The two disciplines turn out to reinforce each other. Fieldwork teaches you to gather messy data carefully and not trust a conclusion you cannot trace back to a measurement. That is most of what building reliable software asks of you too.