Education
University of Regina
B.Sc. in Computer Science | 2030
University of Regina, Regina, Canada
Focus: AI/ML, systems, full-stack development
Motherland Secondary School
High School
Motherland Secondary School, Pokhara, Nepal
Experience
Google
Open Source Contribution | Syzkaller
Fixed musl build incompatibility by adding pkey syscall compatibility shims. Implemented platform-specific solutions for pkey_alloc, pkey_free, and pkey_mprotect across musl/glibc and amd64/arm64 architectures, enabling executor builds on Alpine Linux and other musl-based systems.
Anthropic
Open Source Contribution | Buffa
Designed and implemented buffa-remote-derive macro crate enabling foreign types as custom field types. 1,317-line feature spanning 22 files with sophisticated two-tier trait design (ProtoString, ProtoBytes, ProtoList, ProtoBox, MapStorage) and comprehensive integration tests against real types.
NVIDIA
Open Source Contribution | infra-controller
Implemented intelligent health report suppression with time-based caching and content hashing. Per-key deduplication skips unchanged success-only reports while preserving alert forwarding, reducing unnecessary API traffic for stable machines while maintaining system responsiveness.
Unsloth
Open Source Contribution | Unsloth
Fixed critical XSS vulnerability in Studio markdown renderer where model-emitted image tags were loading from external URLs, leaking user IP addresses and browser metadata. Implemented content security filtering to allow only safe image sources while preserving legitimate inline content.
Active contributor across 13+ repositories including Microsoft, Kestra, OpenHands, and others.
Research Papers
ARIA: Adaptive Recurrent Intelligence Architecture
Darshan Poudel | 2026 | Preprint
NCG: Novelty-triggered Capacity Growth for Continual Learning
Darshan Poudel | 2025 | Research Repository
Projects
ARIA — Adaptive Recurrent Intelligence Architecture
Continual learning architecture preventing catastrophic forgetting
2026 | Python, PyTorch | Research prototype
Continual learning architecture achieving 98.50% accuracy with 0.86% forgetting on Split-MNIST, outperforming EWC (97.35%, 2.29% forgetting) by 62% less forgetting and 1.15 points higher accuracy. Combines morphogenic attention, plasticity-gated MLPs, architecture genome vectors, cognitive budget allocation, and slow-pathway consolidation for dynamic capacity allocation. Validated with comprehensive multi-seed benchmarking and detailed ablation studies. Full research paper and reproducible implementation available.
DuckAI
AI sidebar that reads your screen for context
2026 | Electron, React, FastAPI, Python | Active
A cross-platform AI sidebar that operates continuously in the background, providing real-time contextual assistance by analyzing your current screen and work context. Built with Electron for desktop integration, React for responsive UI, and FastAPI backend for intelligent processing. Seamlessly understands the application, document, or task you're currently working on, enabling context-aware suggestions, summaries, and assistance without requiring manual input or switching applications. Perfect for developers, writers, and knowledge workers.
FieldSense
Agricultural ML platform for crop optimization
2025 | Flask, scikit-learn, PyTorch, ONNX | Live
An intelligent agricultural decision-support platform that leverages machine learning to optimize farming outcomes. Provides data-driven crop recommendations based on soil conditions, weather patterns, and historical yields. Implements fertilizer optimization algorithms to reduce costs while maintaining productivity. Includes computer vision-based leaf disease detection for early intervention. Exposes all capabilities through a production-ready REST API with explainable AI outputs showing reasoning behind recommendations, complete audit trail for compliance, and persistent history tracking. Currently deployed with live demonstrations.
NCG — Novelty-triggered Capacity Growth
Self-regulating continual learning framework
2025 | Python, PyTorch | Research implementation
A self-regulating continual learning framework that autonomously expands neural network capacity only when necessary, preventing both catastrophic forgetting and unnecessary over-parameterization. Uses novelty detection signals to identify when existing model capacity is insufficient for new tasks. Employs learnable meta-parameters to control capacity growth dynamically. Integrates gated knowledge memory mechanisms to selectively consolidate and retrieve learned information. Particularly effective for scenarios with streaming data and non-stationary task distributions. Research-grade implementation with full reproducibility.
Hackathons
Virtu Hack — Winner
Project: LinkU
2024 | TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Stripe | Winner
Advanced version of the student-to-mentor platform connecting college students with qualified advisors for personalized admissions guidance and career mentorship. Features intelligent ML-based mentor discovery and matching algorithms, bookable one-on-one sessions, direct messaging for ongoing communication, integrated in-app video conferencing, university-specific feeds for institutional insights, and AI-powered college admissions analysis. Built with production-grade full-stack architecture including real-time capabilities via Agora, secure payment processing through Stripe, and user authentication via Clerk.
Code Rush — Winner
Project: LinkU
2024 | TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Stripe | Winner
Evolved mentor-student connectivity platform with enhanced features for college admissions support. This iteration builds upon the original concept with refined mentor matching powered by machine learning algorithms, seamless session booking and scheduling, real-time communication tools including video calls, university-specific content feeds providing targeted institutional information, and intelligent AI-assisted college admissions analysis. Demonstrates production-ready software engineering with secure payment integration, robust authentication systems, scalable architecture, and focus on user experience.
Student Hacks — Winner
Project: CampusConnect (Early Version)
2024 | TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL | Winner
The original prototype of what became LinkU. This version established the core concept of connecting college students with mentors for admissions guidance and career support. Implemented fundamental features including mentor discovery, session scheduling, direct messaging, and university-specific feeds. This hackathon submission validated the market need and demonstrated the viability of the platform concept, leading to its evolution into the more feature-rich LinkU platform with additional capabilities like ML-powered matching, in-app video, payment processing, and AI-assisted analysis.
Archived Projects
Projects from high school & early learning
Student-to-mentor platform connecting college students with advisors for admissions guidance. Built with full-stack web tech (TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Stripe).
30 mini-games packed into 2MB. Explored game design, optimization, and UX. Shows what you can build when you focus on constraints.
Used books marketplace. Connected buyers and sellers in Nepal. Built with TypeScript and modern web stack.
E-commerce platform for groceries and household essentials. Focused on making affordable shopping accessible across Nepal.
Real-time bus tracking system. Solved the "when is my bus coming" problem with live location tracking and ETAs.
Tool to discover and download free stock photos and videos. Made creative asset discovery faster and easier.
CS education platform with tutorials and exercises. Believed you could teach algorithms better than traditional resources.
Advanced GitHub repository search tool with smart filters. Made finding relevant open source projects easier.
Website template browser. Browse and download templates from GitHub with preview functionality.
AI-powered project setup assistant. Automated repository cloning, dependency installation, and configuration.