Full-Stack & AI Engineer
3+ years shipping production React, Next.js, and Node.js across three countries and time zones. U.S. permanent resident. Currently deep in AI-native engineering — RAG pipelines, agentic tools, and the Claude API.
State College, PA · Open to relocation · No sponsorship required
About
I’m a full-stack engineer with a habit of ending up somewhere new — Started from Nepal, remote work for Japan, Australia, now United States — and shipping production code the whole way through. That path forced a skill most job descriptions only gesture at: working async, across time zones, with minimal hand-holding.
My core stack is React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js, built up over three years at companies spanning three continents. More recently I’ve turned that same self-directed approach toward AI engineering — not by taking a course, but by building: RAG pipelines, tool-using agents on the Claude API, and backend services in FastAPI, a stack I’m adding deliberately rather than claiming I already know.
I hold a Master of Information Technology from the University of Southern Queensland and U.S. Permanent Resident status, so there’s no sponsorship clock running. I like learning by building over watching tutorials, and I’d rather tell you directly where my gaps are than let you find out later.
Journey
Experience on the left, education on the right — roughly lined up by when they happened. The gaps between stops are where the adaptability comes from.
Bachelors of Information Management
Coursework completed remotely
Full-Stack Engineer
Remote, for a Tokyo-based team
Went fully async — shipped features without ever sharing a working day with the team.
Software Engineer
Kathmandu, Nepal
Cut my teeth on production web apps with a small, fast-moving team.
Master of Information Technology
Coursework completed remotely
Studied while working full-time remote — capstone work included integrating Synthflow AI for a voice agent.
Software Engineer
Remote, for an Australian team
Shipped production features remotely, including integrating an AI voice agent (Synthflow + OpenAI) for inbound calls.
Building CareTrack, Ask My Docs & agentic tools
State College, Pennsylvania
Now building AI-native products solo: RAG pipelines, Claude tool use, and closing the Python/FastAPI gap on purpose.
currently hereBachelors of Information Management
Coursework completed remotely
Full-Stack Engineer
Remote, for a Tokyo-based team
Went fully async — shipped features without ever sharing a working day with the team.
Software Engineer
Kathmandu, Nepal
Cut my teeth on production web apps with a small, fast-moving team.
Master of Information Technology
Coursework completed remotely
Studied while working full-time remote — capstone work included integrating Synthflow AI for a voice agent.
Software Engineer
Remote, for an Australian team
Shipped production features remotely, including integrating an AI voice agent (Synthflow + OpenAI) for inbound calls.
Building CareTrack, Ask My Docs & agentic tools
State College, Pennsylvania
Now building AI-native products solo: RAG pipelines, Claude tool use, and closing the Python/FastAPI gap on purpose.
currently hereProjects
AI-assisted clinical documentation for aged care
A Next.js + Supabase app for aged-care staff, with a two-step AI-suggests / human-confirms audit trail across ADL, bowel, falls, and food & fluid charts — built around ACQSC compliance standards.
A RAG pipeline you can actually trust
Local retrieval-augmented Q&A over your own documents: a paragraph-aware chunker with overlap, ChromaDB-backed ingestion with upsert idempotency, and a strict context-only query layer that won't hallucinate past the source.
Claude with tool use, watching the market
A Node.js/TypeScript backend where Claude uses tools to monitor prices and execute trades via Alpaca, paired with a Next.js frontend and push notifications so I can act from my phone.
A morning briefing that runs itself
A Next.js app that pulls headlines from NewsAPI, summarizes with Gemini, and emails a digest every morning via Vercel Cron and Resend — including retry logic for rate limits I hit the hard way.
Skills
I’d rather flag a gap than paper over it — the items marked “learning” are real, active work, not aspirational.
Contact
U.S. Permanent Resident — no sponsorship needed. If you’re hiring for full-stack or AI engineering roles, I’d like to hear about it.