Graduate Research Assistant - Digital Platform & Curriculum - CyberReady Florida, University of South Florida - Tampa, FL
(2025-06)
- Redesigned a government cybersecurity awareness curriculum aligned with NIST CSF 2.0, reaching 1,500+ Florida government and state employees; launched a companion GRC training program.
- Monitored activation, completion, and engagement KPIs; analyzed learner friction and improved course completion rates by 20%.
- Applied LLM-assisted workflows and prompt systems with Azure ML, shortening curriculum design, QA review, and interactive learning iteration cycles, reducing modules deployment time by 20%
Graduate Research Assistant - AI Product Development - Tampa General Hospital / University of South Florida - Tampa, FL
(2025-02 - 2025-06)
- Led 0-to-1 development of an AI-powered assistive mobile app for hearing-impaired drivers, detecting emergency sirens and critical road sounds with real-time haptic and visual alerts; owned customer discovery, usability testing, MVP validation, and model-performance evaluation at 92% accuracy.
- Used human-in-the-loop validation cycles with Python scripts and JIRA to guide roadmap decisions, resulting in faster feature prioritization and clearer development focus
- Aligned business, user, and engineering priorities to drive timely delivery.
Chief Product Manager - Yes Helping Hands IT Solutions - Pokhara, Nepal
(2024-05 - 2024-12)
- Owned product roadmap and P&L for two AI-enabled commerce platforms; drove 40% revenue growth in Q1 through rapid prototyping, product-market fit validation, and lean development cycles.
- Recruited, mentored, and led a cross-functional team of 9 engineers, designers, QA, and marketers; built Power BI dashboards and performed funnel analysis to track acquisition, activation, and retention, which enabled data-driven decisions that increased user activation rates by 37%
- Built durable culture and operating processes, then selected and onboarded a successor; company has since grown to a team of 24.
Chief Technology Officer - Yarsa Tech - Pokhara, Nepal
(2022-12 - 2023-08)
- Recruited to rescue an investor-backed hardware startup on the verge of shutdown; rebuilt product and operational execution, converting multi-year R&D by a 15+ engineer team into commercial launch of 4 hardware products in 6 months.
- Secured eSewa partnership, generating NPR 20M+ in revenue and a 50K-unit order.
- Defined product strategy, roadmap, pricing, commercialization, and performance metrics using KPI design and cohort analysis, while managing cross-border procurement, customs, and regulatory requirements; this ensured compliance and launched new products within 4 months
Delivery Project Associate, Pilot Team - CloudFactory - Kathmandu, Nepal
(2022-01 - 2022-11)
- Designed workflow processes and performance analytics for enterprise AI data-annotation pipelines serving Tesla and Mitsubishi; reduced delivery time by 20% while meeting client OKRs and quality standards.
- Managed a 25-member cross-functional team and coordinated client feedback loops, applying backlog prioritization and KPI design to move pilots to production at enterprise scale, resulting in reduction of project delivery time by 7%
Co-Founder / Product Manager - SochWare - Lalitpur, Nepal
(2017-01 - 2021-12)
- Founded and scaled a digital product company to 45 people, delivering 45+ production applications across ERP, LMS, and health platforms for 35+ enterprise and SMB clients with defined SLAs and profitability targets.
- Built E-Agrovet, an AI crop-disease detection platform used by 670 farmers in 34 cities; Microsoft Imagine Cup 2018 AI World Winner.
- Owned product vision, roadmap, pricing, and P&L for multiple product lines using tools such as Jira and Tableau; ensured implementations complied with security, compliance, and regulatory standards, resulting in successful audit approvals and zero compliance breaches.
