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Wahid Siddique (born August 1, 1979) is a Bangladeshi born Australian Enterpreneur, businessman and IT specialist. He is the founder, CEO, and chief technology officer of GeeksCRS, founder of Geeks Sydney and Krazy IT. He also co-founded Bangla Drive In Movies alongside Dipankar Dipon.

Family and Childhood
Siddique was born to Tawhiduzzaman Siddique and Kohinoor Begum in the village of Betdoba. His father was a TNO in Betdoba while his mother is a housewife.

He later moved to the city of Dhaka where he would spend most of his teenage years, pursuing his higher education.

As a young boy, Siddique was very passionate about the growing technology of the world and was fascinated with computers.

Education
Siddique completed his bachelors in business and then went on to purse a masters degree in IT from the University of Technology Sydney.

Career
Wahid Siddique has been employed in several companies before launching his own company. In these previous jobs, his scope of expertise was mainly in IT infrastructure solutions.

He started working as a system admin in Cyberdreamtime Limited between 1999-2001. After moving to the United Arab Emirates, he would become the long-term IT manager for a company called Crystal Gallery from May 2002 until September 2007.

It is from here that he migrated to Australia, taking his first job there as an IT systems engineer at Transfield holdings. After working in the company for 7 months, he joined Oxfam Australia as a Network Systems Administrator. His career at Oxfam Australia stretched over 5 years and 2 months. Next, he was recruited by Vodafone Global Enterprise for the position of IT Infrastructure Manager. On April 2014, he was promoted to Application and Infrastructure Specialist. He left Vodafone Global Enterprise in 2016.

During the year 2015, Wahid founded his own business venture, Krazy IT, a company based in Australia that provides IT solutions to other businesses.

Siddique launched his second company called Geeks CRS - a chain of computer repair stores and IT service provider based in Australia on January 2017. He would initially fulfil the role of Tech Team Lead until February 2019. Since then the responsibilities of Chief Technology Officer lie on him till present day.

In 2020, he founded Bangla Drive In Movies alongside Dipankar Dipon, which organizes and showcases movies outdoors in Sydney - where people drive in to watch movies, similar to drive throughs. He remains an influential figure in bringing awareness about the Bangladeshi culture in Australia. Krazy Tickets, a event-ticketing organization also founded by Wahid acted as the official distributors of tickets for the exhibitions of Bengali movies through Bangla Drive In Movies.

His career in the field of Information Technology has spanned over 2 decades.