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Software Engineer II

Niural AI

• Architect and lead development of globally scalable backend systems, defining architecture standards across serverless and relational stacks.
• Design advanced data strategies across DynamoDB (access-pattern modeling, cost optimization at scale) and Postgres (query optimization, transactional integrity, scaling).
• Design event-driven and AI-augmented systems for reliability and extensibility, including LLM-driven automation services.
• Lead multi-service, cross-domain initiatives; own service reliability, scalability, and cost strategy.
• Design multi-region, high-availability systems for global scale; drive security and compliance in architecture.
• Establish observability, monitoring, and incident-response standards; lead high-severity incident resolution and postmortems.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers; lead backend hiring and technical calibration.
• Partner with product leadership to align the backend roadmap with business strategy, proactively surfacing long-term architectural risks.

Software Engineer (Team Lead) & R&D Consultant

Khalti Private Limited

• Led a 5-engineer agile squad, boosting delivery velocity by 25% and cutting release cycles from 4 weeks to 2 weeks.
• Spearheaded R&D for AI-powered fraud analytics; prototyped an XGBoost model that flagged 25% more fraudulent attempts.
• Built an OCR-driven KYC microservice (Tesseract + custom CNN), improving document-extraction accuracy by 30% and eliminating 80% of manual verifications.
• Developed high-performance REST APIs with p99 latency under 200 ms and 99.9% uptime using predictive autoscaling.
• Mentored interns and junior developers through weekly knowledge-transfer sessions.
• Rolled out 10+ new payment integrations with product, compliance, and banking partners, expanding Khalti’s financial network by 25% across Nepalese BFIs.

Final Year Project Supervisor

Herald College Kathmandu

• Supervise 40-credit undergraduate capstones in AI/ML, advising on research methods, technical development, and documentation.

Python Instructor

Nakshatra Techno Hub

• Led Python/ML courses with a project-based learning approach that improved placement rates.

Software Engineer & Intern

Eat Ziffy Pvt. Ltd.

• Built a DBSCAN route optimizer reducing delivery times by 20%.
• Developed LightGBM recommender APIs that increased repeat orders by 12%.

Mentor

IT Students of Nepal (ITSNP)

Mentor at Nepal’s largest tech community (~100K members), leading hands-on workshops in programming and introductory machine learning.

Volunteer Software Engineer

United Nations Volunteers (UNV)

Engineered a full-stack web platform for Universal Versatile Society supporting sustainable agriculture; authored technical documentation.

Post Graduate Diploma

Kantipur City College, Purbanchal University

Computer Applications

BSc (Hons)

Islington College, London Metropolitan University

Computing

Decoding Facial Recognition: Analyzing Standalone Euclidean and KNN Distance Metrics

Journal of Science and Technology, 4(2), 51–57

Analysis of standalone Euclidean and KNN distance metrics for facial recognition. Presented at ICSET-2024.

Innovator's Edge Award

Khalti Pvt. Ltd.

Recognized for leading innovative engineering solutions among a team of 75+ engineers, contributing to impactful system-level improvements.

Student Academic Representative

Islington College

Elected for academic excellence and leadership, representing 700+ students in curriculum and academic matters.