Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP)
Bachelor of Business Administration · Major in Finance
Expected May 2027Undergraduate program focused on corporate finance, capital markets, accounting, and business analytics.
Available for 2026 internships
Hi, I'm Abu Saleh M Nasim.
I'm a finance undergraduate at the Bangladesh University of Professionals and a pre-articled Chartered Accountancy student at ICAB. I combine classical finance training with hands-on data analytics, machine learning, and policy research.
CA
Certificate level cleared
2
Projects on GitHub
4+
Clubs and roles
1
Paper on SSRN
About
A bit about me.
Where finance training meets practical analytics and applied research.
Most of my classroom hours are in financial statements, valuation, audit, and reporting standards. The CA programme has been a slow, heavy grind — and the reason I now read annual reports for fun.
On my own time I build things in Python, SQL, and Power BI. The two projects in my portfolio began from “I want to know,” not “I want to learn”: one tries to forecast the Dhaka Stock Exchange with XGBoost; the other maps every restaurant in Dhaka I could find from open-source geographic data.
I've recently started writing — a first paper on customer loyalty in Bangladeshi organised grocery retail is open on SSRN. I'm also a Policy Envoy with the Youth Policy Forum.
Education
Academic background.
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB)
Chartered Accountancy · Pre-articled Student
Certificate Level ClearedProfessional accountancy qualification covering financial reporting, audit, taxation, and business law.
Experience
Leadership and roles.
Schools, college clubs, and a policy forum — building the soft skills that come up everywhere.
- Leadership
Vice President
Adamjee Cantonment Public School Science Club
- Led science-based activities across the student body
- Organized educational programs and outreach events
- Managed student engagement and membership initiatives
- Leadership
Vice President
Adamjee Cantonment College Quiz Club
- Organized inter-college quiz competitions
- Coordinated events end-to-end with the executive committee
- Developed academic engagement programs for members
- Current
Member
BUP Debate Club
- Participate in competitive debate activities
- Develop analytical reasoning and structured communication
- Current
Policy Envoy
Youth Policy Forum
- Contribute to policy discussions and roundtables
- Participate in youth-focused policy initiatives
- Work on civic engagement and policy awareness campaigns
Projects
Selected work.
Side projects where I combine finance with data engineering and machine learning.
A grocery price intelligence engine for Bangladesh. Live-scrapes Chaldal, Shwapno, and Othoba every 6 hours, normalizes messy listings using a tiered confidence-scoring matcher, and aggregates by item type and size to present a unified price-comparison view with a delivery-fee aware basket optimizer.
- Python
- FastAPI
- Next.js
- Playwright
- PostgreSQL
- Tailwind CSS
Full-stack data analytics project that ingests open-source geographic data, cleans it through an automated pipeline, and serves a live, interactive directory of Dhaka restaurants.
- Python
- SQL
- APIs
- Data Analytics
- Web Deployment
Machine learning project that forecasts Dhaka Stock Exchange movements using XGBoost on engineered financial features, with rigorous backtesting and feature analysis.
- Python
- XGBoost
- Machine Learning
- Financial Analytics
- Data Science
Open Source
GitHub activity.
A real-time look at the last twelve months of public contributions on GitHub — pulled from the API, not a screenshot.
29 contributions in the last year
Pulled live from github.com/abusalehmnasim
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Research
Published research.
Open-access on SSRN. The current paper is on grocery retail in Bangladesh; a second one is in draft.
SSRNPosted April 24, 202619 pages
Retail Strategy and Customer Loyalty in Bangladesh's Modern Grocery Sector
A Theoretical Framework for Shwapno's Sustainable Market Leadership
By Abu Saleh M Nasim · written April 21, 2026 · DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6618879
Abstract
This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding customer loyalty in Bangladesh's organized grocery retail sector, using Shwapno — the country's dominant grocery chain — as its empirical anchor. Drawing on the research methodology framework of Sekaran and Bougie (2016), the study identifies service quality, service innovation, and brand trust as independent variables; perceived value-for-money (PVM) as a mediating variable; and socioeconomic status (SES) as a moderating variable. Six hypotheses are proposed and grounded in established retail theory, including SERVQUAL (Parasuraman, Zeithaml & Berry, 1988), Zeithaml's value model (1988), and Morgan and Hunt's Commitment-Trust Theory (1994). The framework extends Western retail theory to an emerging-market context characterized by SES heterogeneity, high price sensitivity, and a transitioning retail landscape. Findings from this theoretical analysis suggest that the mediated pathway — service innovation driving loyalty through perceived value — is likely the most consequential, with SES amplifying this relationship among lower- and middle-income consumers. Theoretical and practical contributions for emerging-market retail management are discussed.
Keywords
- customer loyalty
- service quality
- brand trust
- perceived value-for-money
- organized retail
- Bangladesh
- Shwapno
- socioeconomic status
Skills
Tools and disciplines.
Finance & Accounting
- Financial Modeling
- Three Statement Modeling
- DCF Valuation
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Variance Analysis
Analytics
- Advanced Excel
- Power BI
- Data Visualization
- Dashboard Development
Programming
- Python
- SQL
Research
- Academic Writing
- Quantitative Analysis
- Policy Research
- Data Interpretation
Certifications
Verified credentials.
Associate Data Analyst
DataCamp
Professional certification covering data analysis fundamentals, SQL, and analytical reporting.
Awards
Recognition.
Government Talentpool Scholarship
National-level academic scholarship recognizing outstanding academic performance.
Adamjee Cantonment College Principal's Prestigious Award
Awarded for excellence in academics, leadership, and overall contribution to college life.
Contact
Let's connect.
Email is fastest. Especially for internships, research collaborations, or conversations about finance and Bangladeshi capital markets.