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About Me

Madhav Poudel
Senior AI Software Engineer
Madhav Poudel
@l3lackcurtains

Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years shipping production AI and blockchain systems — self-hosted LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, multi-chain platforms. CTO at Nepal AI Labs.

LocationHeaven on Earth
Email[email protected]
Username@l3lackcurtains
About me
Senior AI Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years shipping production systems across AI and blockchain. Recent work: self-hosted LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, real-time feeds, and multi-provider AI platforms — plus four years architecting Netvrk’s multi-chain blockchain platform end-to-end. Chief Technology Officer at Nepal AI Labs, building AI products for the Nepali market serving users globally. Core stack: TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, GraphQL, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP.

Experience

Jan 2026 Present
  • Led a team building multiple AI and automation products for the Nepali market — Socifyr, AskVedicGuru, Prithvi AI, and two citizen-government platforms — now serving users globally
  • Shipped two citizen-government products: a RAG-grounded AI chat system that helps citizens navigate government policy, laws, and the constitution in Nepali, and a civic engagement platform surfacing local issues to local government — together reaching thousands of users
  • Built a multi-agent AI reporter pipeline for news and social platforms — autonomous research, drafting, translation, image selection and generation, and auto-publishing — cutting client operational overhead by up to 95%
  • Built an autonomous pipeline that scrapes historical books and government documents, OCR-scans and cleans them, and produces structured markdown powering the knowledge base behind Prithvi AI and AskVedicGuru
  • Built RAG pipelines on Typesense and Qdrant for domain-specific knowledge grounding across all products, with PostgreSQL and MongoDB as application databases
  • Delivered a news media platform and a digital library serving thousands of readers with AI-powered content curation

Education

Master’s in Computer Science

Jan 2020 Dec 2021

Northern Arizona University

Graduate research on parallel DBSCAN clustering in C++/CUDA — a 2,100% performance improvement over the baseline — published at HiPC 2021.

Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering

Nov 2014 Sep 2018

Tribhuvan University

Skills

Javascript

Typescript

Python

GoLang

Rust

Node.js

React.js

Next.js

MongoDB

Postgres SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis

Kafka

Ethereum

Solana

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