Career Journey
Professional Experience
From municipal software and payments in Nepal, to enterprise RAG and SDKs at Morgan Stanley, to voice agents and document RAG at HiJenny and Tilli, and now agent infrastructure and developer tools at Wasmer.
Member of Technical Staff
Wasmer
WebAssembly runtime and developer platform
August 2026 - Present
- Own developer experience and developer relations: onboarding developers and customers, collecting product feedback, and feeding it back into the roadmap
- Shipped a ZIP-build reliability fix for Wasmer Anybuild with regression coverage
- Built the bilingual Launch Week site in TypeScript, Next.js, and React
- Working on Rust/C++ SDK and runtime integration with Python and TypeScript support, and on the AI execution sandbox roadmap
- Ran WebGPU and local-agent experiments, and prototyped an analytics pipeline in Python with ClickHouse and PostgreSQL adapters
Technologies
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
HiJenny
Conversational home-remodeling product
February 2026 - August 2026
- Built a zero-to-one conversational product: conversation and photos become structured requirements, matched against inventory, then routed into provider outreach and payment workflows
- Implemented live voice through LiveKit and Telnyx, plus agent orchestration, memory, tool calling, and real-time retrieval and search with citation grounding
- Built a 14-scenario voice and chat evaluation harness that separates infrastructure failures from answer-quality failures
- Fine-tuned two open-weight language and vision models with supervised fine-tuning, reward optimization, and re-evaluation on human-collected natural data from the Philippines and the US
Technologies
Product Engineer
Tilli (TilliKids)
AI-powered learning platform
December 2025 - August 2026
- Built production document RAG: ingestion, chunking, embeddings in PostgreSQL/pgvector, query rewriting, reranking, and citation-grounded responses
- Shipped the service layer in FastAPI with Redis and Celery for background processing
- Turned educator feedback into retrieval and product changes, and built payments and subscription flows
Technologies
Product Team Lead
Morgan Stanley
Global Investment Bank
April 2024 - November 2025
- Led product for AI and risk products, including enterprise RAG over approved data sources under strict access controls
- Delivered Python SDKs, reference notebooks, and API playgrounds for 15+ engineering teams, helping reduce internal onboarding time by 40%
- Wrote user stories with latency, explainability, and observability requirements, partnering with InfoSec and compliance to meet firm policy
Technologies
Senior Product Manager
Khalti
Digital wallet and payments platform, Nepal
May 2021 - August 2023
- Worked directly under the CTO on the consumer wallet and merchant platform serving 3M+ monthly active users
- Personally implemented banking-integration, transaction-routing, and real-time fraud-scoring logic; helped deliver 18 banking integrations
- Helped raise payment success rate from 89% to 97%; the platform handled a peak day of over $20M USD
Technologies
Product Manager
Tekkon Technologies
Australian & Global Product Services
April 2019 - May 2021
- Built founder-facing MVPs for Perth-based clients across fintech, payments, crypto, and healthtech
- Led GOAT HRMS through 20+ enterprise interviews with an eight-person squad
- Led product discovery and launch for Manini Pay, a digital wallet and payments platform for merchants and consumers
Technologies
Associate Product Manager
Smartpalika Co
Government Tech Software Provider
September 2018 - March 2019
- Shipped municipal app modules for payments and construction management, translating policy requirements into product specs
- Ran stakeholder implementation and training, producing 200+ manuals for municipal staff
Technologies
Leadership & Community
Beyond the day job
Co-founder and Regional Director
Prince Labs and Hult Prize Programs
Kathmandu, Nepal • March 2019 - February 2022
Co-founded Prince Labs, ran social-entrepreneurship programs, and mentored startup teams, including a global-finalist team.
Bay Area events and hackathons
Frontier Signals, BayForge, 2% Tech
San Francisco Bay Area
50+ events hosted. Host of Frontier Signals, co-host and MC at BayForge, organizer through 2% Tech, and mentor and judge at HackMIT 2026.
Community and eventsYears building products
Roles across engineering and product
Banking integrations at Khalti
Engineering teams onboarded at Morgan Stanley