👋 Welcome! I’m Junaid Mansur Ifti — A Senior Software Engineer & Researcher in Software Security and AI for Software Engineering

🎯 Senior Software Engineer seeking a PhD position, Fall 2027 · Software security · AI for SE · Automated testing
📬 bsse1027@iit.du.ac.bd · 📄 CV · 🔬 Research

About Me 🙌

I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Ding (Ireland) with 3+ years of production experience. I serve as technical lead and team co-supervisor, mentor junior engineers, lead critical third-party integrations as the main technical liaison to C-level directors, and drive the modernization of legacy .NET systems, security remediation and CI/CD stability. I also bring AI-assisted coding tools into our team’s workflow.

Alongside this, I do research at the intersection of software security and AI for software engineering: how malicious code behaves in the software supply chain, and whether LLMs can be trusted to find and fix problems in real codebases. I want to extend this to automated software engineering, including testing and maintenance. I hold a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from the University of Dhaka 🎓 (CGPA 3.58/4.00; 3.98/4.00 over the last two years).

🔬 Research Highlights

• 📄 Under review at IEEE TSE (with researchers at The University of Alabama and Auburn University): a statement-level annotated dataset and behavioral taxonomy for malicious Python packages, which improves LLM detection precision by 9% on average.
• 🔐 AutoSecuRe (sole researcher, ongoing): can an AI agent safely fix leaked secrets, not just find them? An autonomous remediation pipeline plus a benchmark of LLM trustworthiness.

👉 Full research details, paper and preprint · Projects · Experience & Education

🧭 Research Interests

• 🛡️ Software Security & Supply Chain: malicious package detection, secret remediation, LLM evaluation and benchmarking
• 🤖 AI for SE & Automated SE: LLM-assisted development, code understanding, automated design and maintenance
• 🧪 Automated Software Testing: AI-driven test generation, coverage
• 🔄 AI/ML in Software Maintenance: refactoring, defect prediction, commit classification

📌 At a Glance

☕ Happy to chat about software security, AI for SE, automated testing, or collaboration. Drop me an email.