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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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