Gaurav Giri

AI and software engineer, Kathmandu

Licensed computer engineer (Nepal Engineering Council) with 5+ years across AI agents and retrieval, Nepali speech AI, computer vision and the backend systems that keep them reliable in production. Published researcher and competitive programmer. Open to remote work and relocation.

AI & Software Engineer, Proshore

April 2026 to now · Kathmandu, hybrid

• Build multi-agent assistants for international enterprise clients that answer questions over company documents, with citations back to the exact page.
• Retrieval from SharePoint via Microsoft Graph with per-user access control, hybrid search in PostgreSQL with pgvector, and query rewriting for multi-turn follow-ups.
• Evaluation harnesses on every pull request for agent behaviour, tool calling and grounding.
• Reliability work: rate limiting and backoff, durable chat sessions, and moving bulk indexing to a throttled queue so it can't starve live chat.

AI Engineer, ekGhanti Services

April 2025 to March 2026 · Kathmandu

• Nepali voice AI for phone calls, with sentiment, intent and automatic summaries; it handled 90,000+ live calls.
• Fine-tuned a Conformer speech-to-text model on Nepali phone audio to 16.8% word error rate, and SpeechT5 text-to-speech with voice cloning and language identification.
• Model-serving layer with dynamic batching and priority queues: 92% lower peak latency across OCR, STT and TTS.
• Handwritten Nepali OCR for citizenship documents (86%+ field accuracy) and a multi-tenant RAG service for four enterprise clients.

Software Developer (freelance), Anmup Online

February 2020 to January 2025 · remote

• Flutter app for the Bagmati Provincial Assembly to manage meetings and legislative documents (500+ installs).
• Travel authorisation system for the Public Health Service Office, Jumla, with role-based approvals and PDF orders.
• Secure medical report archive for NDC Dharan; scrapers, APIs and websites for other clients.

Lightweight parasitic egg detection using a modified YOLOv11 with Ghost convolutions, hybrid SimAM-ECA attention and DropBlock

International Journal on Engineering Technology, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2025

0.9627 [email protected] and 0.92 F1 with 58% fewer parameters than the baseline.

CNN-based bird sound detection: a comparative performance study

International Journal on Engineering Technology, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2025

Mel-spectrogram features; a tuned ResNet50 reached 90.75% accuracy in noisy outdoor audio.

B.E. Computer Engineering, Kantipur Engineering College (Tribhuvan University)

2021 to 2025

Distinction, 81.3%. Merit scholarship in five semesters.

FuseAI Fellowship, Fusemachines

2022 to 2023

Deep learning, NLP, computer vision and production ML.

Data Fellowship, Code for Nepal

2023 to 2024

DevOps Engineering, Broadway Infosys

2024

Languages

Python, C/C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Bash, Dart

AI and ML

PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vLLM; RAG, multi-agent systems, MCP, tool calling; speech (Conformer, SpeechT5, voice cloning); vision (YOLO, OCR, OpenCV); evaluation and guardrails

Backend and data

FastAPI, Django, Flask, Node.js; PostgreSQL with pgvector, Redis, Celery; WebSockets, SSE; OAuth 2.1, KMS encryption, RBAC

Cloud

Azure (OpenAI, App Service, DevOps), AWS (EC2, S3, Bedrock), Google Cloud (Cloud Run, KMS, BigQuery); Docker, GitHub Actions, NGINX, Linux

IEEEXtreme 2024: 7th in Nepal, top 700 of 7,000+ teams worldwide

Winner: Aarohan 2.0 rapid coding, Locus Hack-A-Week (games), Hackademia, IEEE CS Ideathon

Finalist: IEEE “Can You C?”, MLH Semicolon (top 10), Hult Prize IOE 2023

Ed-Tech Lead, Google Developer Groups Kathmandu

2024 to now

Organiser, UbuCon Asia 2025

Notion Campus Leader · Leapfrog Student Partner · KEC Computer Club Coordinator