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// experience

• $ March 2025 – Present

  Software Engineer – AI/ML & Full-Stack @ Leapfrog Technology

  AI/ML and full-stack engineering across retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, event-driven orchestration, and large-scale data platforms.

  • >Architected and implemented a data pipeline for a news-scraper vector database using Qdrant, Google Custom Search, AWS EventBridge, S3, and Lambda functions.
  • >Used a Qwen3:4b model for a local RAG-based pipeline and ran evaluations against it.
  • >Implemented a video-to-video agent that joins MS Teams meetings to provide actionable insights, using Cypress and a remote server for bidirectional video streams.
  • >Built a RAG-based workflow for a Nursing Management Platform using AWS Bedrock, an S3 vector KB, LangGraph, and a Strands agent.
  • >Built a tool-call-based agentic chatbot for the same platform using Strands, with a custom tool discovery and registry workflow.
  • >Implemented Apache Airflow for KB crawler DAGs and Inngest for durable event-driven DAG orchestration, with Nango integrating SharePoint documents as KB data.
  • >Integrated a microfrontend into a production-grade web application and used event-based communication for state management.
  • >Used Datadog for custom dashboards, traces, and the evaluation pipeline.
  • >Integrated an in-app reporting dashboard and its associated ETL pipeline using Inngest.
  • >Engineered a scalable platform to extract and accumulate natural language themes from 2M+ user responses, using an Elasticsearch index and a KNN search cluster for advanced thematic analysis.

• $ Jan 2024 – July 2024

  Professional Services Consultant – AI & Search @ Upland Software

  Engineered enterprise-scale semantic vector search over 2M+ SharePoint documents using Azure OpenAI embeddings and Azure AI Search. Delivered an OCR + OpenAI pipeline for an Australian client to extract and index structured data from unstructured PDFs.

• $ Nov 2023 – April 2024

  Software Engineer – Full-Stack @ Sherpa Technologies

  Led migration of a credit card dispute management platform from legacy infrastructure to GCP Cloud Functions using Node.js, TypeScript, and PHP. Drove cross-functional performance triage across client-facing web and mobile applications.

• $ April 2021 – April 2022

  Software Engineer – Blockchain & Web3 @ 0chain LLC

  Re-architected a React-based blockchain explorer and maintained two Go CLI tools (zwalletCLI, zboxCLI) for 0chain's decentralized storage protocol. Migrated the business website to a Netlify CMS + GatsbyJS stack and contributed to a TypeScript + WebAssembly storage migration.

• $ April 2020 – Nov 2023

  Full-Stack Developer @ Freelance

  Built production-grade platforms including a real-time media app (AWS S3, Redis, WebSockets) and SEO-optimized 3D animation sites using Three.js. Automated client workflows with Pipedream and AssemblyAI, and upgraded a financial trading platform built on Angular and TradingView APIs.

// publications

• An Intelligent Deep Convolutional Neural Network Based Islanding Detection for Multi-DG Systems

  > IOE Graduate Conference · Vol. 16 · 2025

  Om Prakash Jaiswal · Susmita Poudel · Bhrigu Raj Bhattarai · Krishna Dhakal

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// roadmap

1. Learn advanced JavaScript frameworks
2. Contribute to open-source projects
3. Develop a mobile app

// stack