About · the operator's story

Operator first.
Founder second.

I'm not a self-taught bootstrapper who got lucky. I spent ten years inside the machine — the EU delegation, Airtel, Shikho, then Head of Sales & Marketing at Area71, Bangladesh's first authorized Amazon SPN partner — before I built the school I wished existed.

Portrait of Alamin Mumit
ALAMIN MUMIT · DHAKAEST. 2024

Why the school exists

I kept meeting brilliant young people with no way in.

The skills that pay weren't being taught anywhere they could reach — in their language, at their price, with a credential that actually meant something. So in 2024 I built one, from zero, and started teaching every cohort myself.

The path

Ten years in the trenches, then the school.

2017 – 2019

Marketing Executive

Mr420.bd

Cut my teeth on one of the era's biggest social pages — audience, reach, and what actually makes people act.

2019 – 2021

Senior Key Account Manager

Leading national e-commerce platform

Ran key accounts at one of Bangladesh's largest e-commerce platforms at its peak — campaigns, sellers, and revenue at scale.

2021 – 2023

Account & Business Development Manager

Medium Rare · Little Big Films

Key accounts for the EU delegation in Bangladesh, Airtel, Shikho, Ami Probashi and Gourmet Bazar — brand, social and project delivery.

2022 – 2023

Account Manager

Interspeed (Gulshan)

Agency account management — ads, budgets and campaign delivery for national brands.

2023

Lead Manager, D2C → Business Development Manager

Hishabee · Infostation

D2C growth at Hishabee, then programmatic ad-tech at Infostation — the plumbing behind modern digital marketing.

2023 – 2024

Head of Sales & Marketing

Area71 Venture Ltd

Led sales and marketing at the company that became Bangladesh's first authorized Amazon SPN partner.

2024 – now

Founder & CEO

Urban Digital · Urban Academy

Built a bootstrapped AI-skills school and a 360° studio — and started teaching every cohort myself.

LinkedIn Experience · verified BSc, Textile Engineering — University of Dhaka · 2016–2020

The credential ledger

Certified in what he teaches — not just how to sell it.

Google · AI ★

Introduction to Large Language Models

The foundation of the whole course — from the people who build the models.

Google · 2023
Google · AI ★

Introduction to Image Generation

Generative media, learned at the source before it was taught to a cohort.

Google · 2023
Google Ads

Ads Search Certification

Paid search, certified — the discipline behind a decade of client accounts.

ID 114998312
Skillshop

Creative Certification Exam

Certified on what actually makes an ad work, not just how to place it.

ID 115166284
Google

Campaign Manager

Ad serving and measurement at platform scale.

Google · 2020
Google

Fundamentals of Digital Marketing

Where the certified track began — the fundamentals, badged.

Google · 2019
LinkedIn

Ecommerce with Facebook and Instagram

Social commerce, from the platform that runs it.

LinkedIn · 2023
eMarketing Inst.

Social Media Marketing Certification

The social playbook, independently examined.

ID CERT002176328-EMI
eMarketing Inst.

Certified E-commerce Professional

E-commerce credentialed years before it became the school's case studies.

eMI · 2020
Issuer records · 2019–2023

In the room

Built in public, taught in person.

What I believe

Learning should end in income, identity, and impact — not a certificate in a drawer.

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