Before that I did computer vision research at Rara Labs and studied computer engineering at Pulchowk Campus. Most of what I've built has been speech, audio, or vision systems that have to work in the real world, often in Nepal.
2023 – now
Founding Engineer → Lead Software Engineer → Product Lead. Remote, for Austin, TX.
- Worked on the core voice-to-voice system for conversational phone agents with the rest of the early team: low-latency audio streaming over WebSockets, streaming ASR and TTS, and the telephony layer on Telnyx and Twilio.
- Designed and built the multi-tenant agency platform that lets partners white-label and resell echowin with per-tenant isolation.
- Lead the web app (React, Remix, deployed on Cloudflare Workers): onboarding, lead-qualification pipelines, activation flows.
- Primary billing engineer. Designed and maintain the Stripe integration; delivered 10DLC registration and compliance.
- Architected enterprise and government deployments, including outbound calling agents and chatbots for the Embassy of Nepal in the USA, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Nepal's Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, and an enterprise sales and vendor-operations agent for a Fortune 50 company.
- Led the incorporation of echowin's Nepal entity and built the team there.
2022 – 2023
Rara Labs
Computer Vision Research Engineer. Kathmandu.
- AI lead on a $100,000 pre-pilot with the British Council and Nepal's Ministry of Water Supply, applying computer vision to national water-supply infrastructure.
- Built real-time detection of taps, pillars and reservoirs (YOLO, VGG16, custom architectures), and scraped and curated the training data from public ministry sources.
2023
An augmentative and alternative communication app for people who can't speak, built on a Nepali text-to-speech engine I trained from scratch on OpenSLR data (Tacotron 2, transfer learning from an English model). Has a hands-free eye-tracking mode for ALS and paralysis patients and a phrase-based mode for the hearing impaired. Flutter, Flask. My final-year project.
2022
Neonatal-care telemedicine for low-resource settings. Won the BPKIHS / gdhub Healthcare Hackathon 2022.
2018 – 2023
Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University
B.E. in Computer Engineering. 83.18% aggregate.
2023
Winner, Logpoint Capture The Flag (basic category).
2023
Organizer, Naamche Hack-A-Week, the LOCUS pre-event at Pulchowk.
2022
Speaker, Digital Health Conference.
2022
Winner, BPKIHS / gdhub Healthcare Hackathon, for ShishuCare.
Nepali (native), English and Hindi (fluent). Code in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C++, Dart.
The best way to reach me is email. I read everything.