selected work / notes / experiments
Software engineer / systems, tooling, and verification
I work on software where the surface and the internals both matter: study tools, privacy-heavy systems, verification paths, and machine learning with a clear job to do.
selected work
A correctness harness for BIP 352 Silent Payments implementations, with differential adapters, replayable regressions, and release-verification lanes.
Maintainer-acknowledged upstream bug reports across multiple implementations, with one reduced case later folded into merged BIP-352 test-vector coverage.
An uncertainty-aware hydropower decision system that turns ground-sensed river data, weather and melt signals, and plant availability into discharge forecasts and safer energy commitments.
Overall winner and Hydropower & Sustainable Energy Track winner at JunctionX Kathmandu 2026, earning Team Pikachu a Golden Ticket to the global Junction stage in Finland.
An exam-prep platform that turns scattered study material into a more usable learning system with OCR, adaptive practice, and collaborative tools.
One codebase carrying OCR ingestion, question banks, analytics, auth, and deployment, so it holds up as a full product build rather than a single polished feature.
writing
On good news, the faces people make when they hear it, and why being celebrated is so much harder to receive than being pitied.
Riki lived next door, but our house kept food for him. After he was given away, his biscuits remained—and Tiger kept waiting.
what stays consistent
The domains can change. The standard does not: understand the problem fully, choose the shape with restraint, and make the engineering stand up in real use.
Note 01
Make the product easy to trust before trying to make it impressive.
Note 02
Let the architecture do the heavy lifting quietly.
Note 03
Keep choosing work that stretches judgment, not just output.
