Recognition
Awards & Achievements
Awards, mentoring, judging, and participation across the builder community, alongside recognition from my earlier work.
Hackathon achievements
15 recent records, with awards and service roles distinguished from participation. Confirmed engagements are labeled separately.
HackMIT
Mentor and judge
Mentored builders and served as a judge at HackMIT.
YC x Medplum Hackathon
People's Choice
Our team received the People's Choice award at the YC x Medplum Hackathon.
Berkeley Emerging Technology Association Hackathon
Team win
Built with a winning team exploring accessible applications and voice-directed creative tools.
Project: Impactlens / Storyborn
DetailsMultiModel Hackathon
Team win
Co-built CollabCast, an AI workflow turning a brand brief and product photos into video advertising.
Project: CollabCast
DetailsThe IDE Reimagined: JetBrains x Codex Hackathon
Third place
Co-built shared project memory for coding agents to carry work across machines and sessions.
Project: Mesh Code
DetailsShip to Prod — Agentic Engineering Hackathon
Best use of Ghost
Our Verity Oracle team received the Best use of Ghost category award.
Project: Verity Oracle
DetailsDeep Agents Hackathon
Most Innovative Project Using Macroscope
Co-built Deepops, recognized in the Most Innovative Project Using Macroscope category.
Project: Deepops
DetailsFTC Hackathon
Runner-up
Received runner-up recognition at the FTC Hackathon.
World's First Zero Human Company Hackathon
Participant
Competed in the first Zero Human Company Hackathon hosted by Terac.
AI Hackathon @ Berkeley
Project submitted
Built and submitted CryoBrain at the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon.
Project: CryoBrain
DetailsTransforming Enterprise Through AI
Participant
Participated in the LabLab enterprise AI hackathon.
YC Call My Agent Hackathon
Participant
Participated in the YC Call My Agent Hackathon.
HackHarvard
Judging and mentorship engagement
Confirmed judging and mentorship engagement supporting student builders.
Cal Hacks
Judging and mentorship engagement
Confirmed judging and mentorship engagement supporting student builders.
TreeHacks
Judging and mentorship engagement
Confirmed judging and mentorship engagement supporting student builders.
Earlier recognition and leadership
Awards and community milestones from earlier work
National Innovation Award
Government of Nepal
2020
Recognized for outstanding contributions to innovation and technology development in Nepal.
Impact
National-level recognition for technological innovation and impact
Udhyam Innovation Challenge - 1st Place
Code Himalaya, India
2021
Developed a platform connecting remote Himalayan artisans/farmers directly to urban markets via a mobile interface and logistics coordination.
Impact
Created economic opportunities for underserved communities
Deerhack Hackathon - 1st Place
Deerhack
2022
Built an AI-powered personalized learning path generator, adapting to student learning styles based on quiz results and platform interactions.
Impact
Innovative application of AI in education technology
Code Brisk Hackathon - 1st Place
Code Brisk
2022
Developed a tool to automatically optimize code snippets (Python/JS) for performance and readability using static analysis, designed for CI/CD integration.
Impact
Developer productivity tool with practical industry applications
Security Pal Hackathon - 1st Runner Up
Skill Lab
2021
Created a browser extension using ML to detect and warn users about real-time phishing attempts, focusing on protecting vulnerable users.
Impact
Security innovation protecting users from cyber threats
Hult Prize Global Finalist Team Mentor
Hult Prize Foundation
2021
Mentored and coordinated a team that reached the global finals of the world's largest student competition for social entrepreneurship.
Impact
Global-level impact in social entrepreneurship
Original Contributions
Significant contributions demonstrating exceptional ability
Published Research on Evidence and Agent Evaluation
Five sole-author, peer-reviewed papers published in 2026 on evidence-grounded retrieval, carried state in ledgers, stateful mediation of language-model actions, and structured evaluation of synthetic financial workflows. Two more accepted and pending publication.
Key Metrics
Open-Source Contributions and Tools
Merged upstream contributions to TensorFlow, Microsoft Playwright, NVIDIA tiny-cuda-nn, Wasmer Anybuild, x402, OpenClaw, and JetBrains swot. Creator of the Adobe Premiere Pro MCP server with 74 curated tools.
Key Metrics
Khalti Digital Wallet Platform
Senior Product Manager working directly under the CTO on a digital wallet serving 3M+ monthly active users. Personally implemented banking-integration, transaction-routing, and fraud-scoring logic and helped deliver 18 banking integrations.
Key Metrics
Enterprise RAG and SDKs at Morgan Stanley
Led product for AI and risk products, including enterprise RAG over approved data sources, and delivered Python SDKs, reference notebooks, and API playgrounds for 15+ engineering teams.
Key Metrics
Quantum Insider - AI & Quantum Education
Founded non-profit initiative to expand AI and quantum computing education in Nepal through workshops and partnerships with schools and universities.
Key Metrics
Manini Pay Digital Wallet
Led product discovery and delivery of digital-wallet and merchant-payment workflows, including APIs, webhooks, SDKs, and integration guidance.
Key Metrics
Professional Certifications
Recognized credentials in product management and agile methodologies
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
2024
ID: 001695320
Certified SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager
Scaled Agile, Inc.
2024
ID: 89483323-7892
Certified SAFe 6 Agilist
Scaled Agile, Inc.
2024
ID: 24045040-5358
Google Project Management Certificate
2023
AI for Product Management
Pendo.io / Mind the Product
2024
By the Numbers
Hackathon 1st Places
National Award
Certifications
Global Finalist Team Mentored