Available for AI engineering work

Shishir
Paudel

AI Engineer building speech recognition, document QA, and career-guidance systems — from research prototype to deployed AWS backend.

4+years in AI/ML
8shipped projects
1published paper
SP
Profile

Research-minded, deployment-ready

Computer engineer with a research background in machine learning and deep learning, currently working as an AI engineer on production systems.

I like taking a model from a research idea to something that actually runs in front of users — training it, wiring it into a backend, and deploying it. Past work spans Nepali speech recognition, LLM-based document QA, and image tagging systems, alongside the AWS infrastructure that keeps them running.

Comfortable moving between research and infrastructure: the same week might involve fine-tuning a transformer and shipping the CI/CD pipeline that serves it.

Languages

PythonCC++JavaScriptKotlin

Machine learning & AI

TensorFlowPyTorchKerasScikit-learnHugging FaceLangChainOpenAI APIPrompt engineering

Cloud & data

AWS LambdaDynamoDBS3API GatewayCloudFormationSQLiteFastAPI

Workflow

GitGitHub ActionsDockerClaude Code
Experience

Where I've worked

03/2024 — Present

AI Engineer Current

System Shared Inc., Japan
  • Build backend, AI components, CI/CD, and AWS deployment for a career support platform with an interactive roadmap display and chatbot support.
03/2023 — Present

AI Researcher — AI Team Lead Current

Active Learning Lab, Kathmandu University
  • Lead a dynamic image tagging and word embedding project.
07/2023 — 02/2024

AI Researcher

Flaresight Pvt. Ltd.
  • Developed an LLM-based document analysis and answering bot for Dutch-language documents.
  • Built natural-language chat functionality over SQLite databases using Llama 2 and Vicuna.
03/2022 — 10/2022

Teaching Assistant

Kathmandu University
  • Assisted students in learning C programming.
03/2021 — 03/2023

Research Assistant

ILPRL Lab, Kathmandu University
  • Researched and developed a deep-learning-based Nepali speech recognition system in Python.
  • Worked on the Nepali image captioning project.
05/2020 — 01/2021

Web and Android Developer

Oasys IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
  • Interface design and development.
  • Gained working knowledge of Git for version control.
Projects

Selected work

Research prototypes and shipped systems, from speech models to production AI backends.

LLM document QA bot

2023

An intelligent chatbot on Llama 2 and Vicuna that answers user queries from documents and a SQLite database.

Llama 2 · Vicuna

Nepali speech recognition

2022 · Published

A CNN–Transformer speech recognition system for Nepali. Published in LDK 2023.

TensorFlow · Keras

Image tagging & embedding

2021 — 2024

Autonomously learns image tags from internet data, building a tag hierarchy through embeddings.

Embeddings

Nepali image captioning

2021

An image captioning system built on a pretrained CNN with a transformer decoder.

CNN · Transformer

Smart search

2021

A website search feature offering smart suggestions based on a site's own content.

NLP

Sajilo Homestay

2018

An online platform for listing and booking rental homestays, hotels, and houses.

Full-stack

Mero Mobile

2017

An Android app that tracks a phone and syncs messages and call logs to the web in real time.

Android · Kotlin
Research & recognition

Publication & achievements

Paudel et al., "Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition for Nepali Language using CNN and Transformer," LDK 2023.

Best Software Project AwardLITE Technical Exhibition, 2017
Fundamentals of Deep Learning Certificate3-day NVIDIA workshop, 2021
Jenesys 2022 ParticipationKU delegate — one week in Japan
Contact

Let's build something

Based in Pokhara, Nepal. Open to conversations about AI engineering, applied research, and interesting backend problems.

or reach me directly