About Me
I'm Firoj Paudel, a Computer Science and Information Technology student at Madan Bhandari Memorial College in Kathmandu, currently working as a Speech Engineer at WiseYak and co-founder at SAGEA.
My work moves between research — on-device language models, interpretability, medical imaging — and production systems, most recently multi-agent platforms (Foundry by SAGEA), computer vision platforms (Helios deployed at Khalti), and speech synthesis systems.
Fast Facts
Capabilities & Skills
Model Training & Optimization
Training and adapting models efficiently, from full fine-tunes to parameter-efficient methods and CUDA kernels.
PyTorch
Transformers
CUDATensorRT
ONNXLoRAPyTorch Lightning
WandB
Scikit-learn
KerasSpeech & Multimodal AI
Building systems that understand and produce language, especially for underserved languages like Nepali & Maithili.
LangChainOpenAINLP
OpenCVProduction Infrastructure & MLOps
Taking models from notebook to sub-100ms production microservices with full containerization.
Python
C++
FastAPI
Docker
Linux
SQL
Redis
Git
NumPy
PandasWeb & Interactive Platforms
Designing responsive interfaces and full-stack web platforms for real-time model interaction.
Next.js
ReactREST / gRPCLanguages Spoken
Linguistic adaptability in professional/research environments.
Leadership & Community
Co-Lead
MBMC IdeaX 2025Co-led the hackathon, managing and coordinating all organizing and participating teams.
General Manager
MBM IdeaX 2024Organized a nationwide hackathon in Nepal, managing hackers and the organizing team.