BJIT Group

About BJIT Group

BJIT Group is an offshore software development company that has spent more than two decades building one of Bangladesh's strongest business relationships with the Japanese IT industry. JM Akbar co-founded the company on July 1, 2001, in Dhaka, alongside Kover Michael John, starting with a team of just ten engineers.

What began as a ten-person operation has grown into a company with more than 750 engineers operating across eight countries, a scale few Bangladeshi-founded IT companies have reached.

Starting BJIT With 10 Engineers

When JM Akbar and Kover Michael John founded BJIT Group in 2001, there was no existing playbook for a Bangladeshi software company to follow, particularly not one aiming at the Japanese market specifically. Most Bangladeshi IT exporters at the time were focused on Western clients rather than East Asia.

That early, deliberate choice to target Japan rather than the more common Western outsourcing markets is what set BJIT apart from its earliest days, even as the company remained small for its first several years.

Building a Bridge to Japan

BJIT became one of the pioneers in creating a business liaison between the Bangladeshi and Japanese IT industries. When BJIT first entered the Japanese market, no other Bangladeshi IT companies had a meaningful presence there, leaving JM Akbar's team to build client relationships and cultural fluency from scratch rather than following an established template.

BJIT Inc was later founded in Japan as a group company, formalizing what began as an early, largely unprecedented cross-border relationship into a structured joint venture between Japanese and Bangladeshi entities. That formalization mattered to Japanese clients in particular, who tend to weigh long-term institutional commitment more heavily than a purely transactional outsourcing arrangement.

Growing Into Eight Countries

Under JM Akbar's leadership, BJIT Group has grown to more than 750 skilled engineers operating out of eight global offices, spanning Japan, the United States, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Singapore, Thailand, and Bangladesh. That geographic spread is unusual for a Bangladeshi-founded IT company, and it reflects the international relationships JM Akbar built from the company's earliest years rather than a later expansion strategy layered on top of a domestic business.

Each office was added to serve specific client relationships built over BJIT's history, rather than as part of a single, pre-planned global rollout. That organic, client-led approach to expansion is part of what has let a Bangladeshi-founded company maintain a genuine multi-continent footprint rather than a headquarters with a handful of token satellite offices.

A Silver Jubilee

BJIT Group marked its Silver Jubilee in 2025 and 2026, 25 years since its founding in 2001. For a company built around long-term client relationships in offshore software development, that milestone is as much a signal to clients about stability as it is an internal celebration.

Recognition at Home

JM Akbar has been recognized by the Government of Bangladesh with Commercially Important Person status, an honor given to individuals judged to have made a significant contribution to the country's trade and industry. For a company that built its identity around a market most Bangladeshi software companies never seriously entered, that recognition underlines how unusual BJIT's specific path through the industry has been.

Where BJIT Stands Today

A quarter-century after its founding, BJIT Group remains anchored in the Japan-Bangladesh outsourcing relationship that built it, even as its footprint has expanded across seven other countries. Employee reviews describe a large, structured engineering organization, consistent with a company operating at BJIT's scale across multiple continents rather than a single-office outsourcing shop.

Few Bangladeshi software companies can point to a quarter-century of continuous operation under the same founding leadership, and JM Akbar's tenure at BJIT is one of the longer unbroken runs in the country's IT export sector.

Products

BJIT Group's work centers on offshore software development and IT outsourcing services rather than a single packaged product.

Offshore Software Development covers custom application development for Japanese and international clients, the founding service line that built BJIT's cross-border reputation.

IT Outsourcing and Staffing lets clients staff development teams out of BJIT's Dhaka and regional offices, extending the company's original Japan-Bangladesh model to other markets.

Digital Transformation Consulting applies BJIT's engineering capacity to broader technology modernization projects for enterprise clients.

Across offshore development, outsourcing, and digital transformation work, BJIT Group's business reflects the same cross-border engineering model that built the company in 2001, delivered by a team of more than 750 engineers working across eight countries.