Inside Sumit Saha’s Blueprint for Bangladesh’s Next Tech Generation

Walk into any software firm in Dhaka, or scroll through the workspace of an independent freelancer in Chittagong, and you will likely find two things: a screen glowing with code and a video tutorial playing in the background. More often than not, the voice in that video belongs to Sumit Saha.

From building Bangladesh's first digital agency in a BUET dorm room to educating over 300,000 developers, Sumit Saha has quietly spent the last two decades transforming how this country approaches technology. He isn't just building software, he is engineering the talent pipeline that connects local youth to the global economy.

Long before "startup hubs" existed in Bangladesh, he was a third year Computer Science student at BUET. In 2008, alongside classmate Ridwan Hafiz, he took a gamble on an uncharted frontier, co-founding Analyzen. It became Bangladesh’s very first digital marketing and tech solutions agency. Instead of keeping the company local, he and his team pushed outward. Over the next decade, Analyzen crossed borders—establishing fully operational offices in Singapore, Myanmar, and Canada. It was an early, definitive proof concept: Bangladeshi engineering could successfully compete on the world stage.

While his business ventures expanded globally, Sumit noticed a stark reality back home, thousands of brilliant minds were being locked out of the tech boom simply because top-tier programming resources were only available in English. In August 2020, he launched Learn with Sumit (LWS) to change that. By translating enterprise-grade development concepts into clear, accessible Bengali, LWS dismantled the barrier to entry. The platform quickly grew into a massive self-paced learning ecosystem, serving a community of more than 300,000 students. Through free community videos and rigorous structured programs like the Reactive Accelerator, he turned complex coding into a domestic language.

To combat the isolation of remote learning, he also conceptualized and hosted Devcon (devConf), a landmark post-pandemic conference that brought thousands of self-taught developers out of their rooms and into direct contact with industry leaders. Sumit Saha’s current work is focused on proving that Bangladeshi talent doesn't just consume global tech, it shapes it. His footprint across the international developer ecosystem includes Global Classrooms, The Marketplace, The Next Frontier.

What makes Sumit's journey distinct isn't just the companies he has scaled or the lines of code he has written. It is the multiplier effect. By taking the lessons learned from international markets and building an accessible, localized ladder for the youth back home, he is ensuring that Bangladesh's tech boom isn't driven by a select few but powered by thousands.