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Surface IT has been licensed and trading in Dhaka since 2019. In the early years it mostly ran courses, teaching design, web and digital skills from an office in Gulshan, with software work running alongside. Today the balance has reversed and the work is software.

The teaching side traded as Surface IT Institute, and you will still find that name on our older material. It has always been the same business. Every trade licence, from the 2019 one from Dhaka North, through the Dhanmondi licence from Dhaka South, to the current head office licence, names it Surface IT.

The photographs below are from those early years. They are our history, not our present: today Surface IT is an independent studio of one engineer, with its head office in Nikunja, Khilkhet and a second office in Dhanmondi.

2019

Licensed in Gulshan

Surface IT was registered with a trade licence in Dhaka North and opened its first premises in Gulshan. The licence named the business Surface IT, as the current one still does.

The early years

Mostly teaching

Day to day, Surface IT ran as a training institute, teaching design, web and digital skills to students in Dhaka under the name Surface IT Institute. Software work ran alongside the courses.

Today

Nikunja and Dhanmondi, mostly software

The office moved to Dhanmondi, which sits under Dhaka South and required a fresh trade licence from that authority. The head office is now in Nikunja, Khilkhet, under its own licence, with Dhanmondi kept on as a second branch. The balance has reversed: Surface IT is now an independent studio of one engineer, and its work is software. It builds and operates three products of its own.

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Photographs from the original Gulshan premises, during the institute years.

Reception room of the original Surface IT office, with a Surface IT Institute banner listing its courses.
The reception of the first Surface IT premises, set up when the company was licensed in 2019.
Five people standing beneath a sign reading Surface IT Institute, Every Click Matters.
The Surface IT Institute signboard at the original office.
Students seated at computer workstations in a classroom.
A class in session at the institute in the early years.
An instructor teaching in front of a projected screen.
Teaching image editing from a projector.
A wide view of students at workstations in the training room.
The training room at the original premises.
People seated around a meeting table.
A session around the meeting table.
A group of people standing together for a photograph in the office.
A cohort at the institute.