# Aananda P. Giri

**AI Engineer · Machine Learning · Software Developer**

Kathmandu, Nepal

[mail@aanandagiri.com.np](mailto:mail@aanandagiri.com.np) · [aanandagiri.com.np](https://aanandagiri.com.np) · [github.com/aananda-giri](https://github.com/aananda-giri) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aananda-giri/) · [Twitter/X](https://x.com/aanandagiri)

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## Summary

AI Engineer with hands-on experience training open-source language models (up to 318M parameters), building LLM-backed production systems, and creating data pipelines for low-resource languages. Strong end-to-end ownership across data collection, model training, fine-tuning, inference, and deployment.

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## Experience

### Automation Engineer — The Promised Group
Remote · Mar 2026 – Present

- Built AI agents and automation workflows using OpenClaw, Hermes, and custom agent frameworks
- Developed scalable web applications, APIs, and serverless solutions
- Managed deployment, containerization, and production system maintenance

### AI Engineer — Venture23
Kathmandu, Nepal · Feb 2025 – Jan 2026

- Built production backend services for AI systems using FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Redis
- Designed agent-based architectures with tool-calling and RAG pipelines for therapeutic support agents, including prompt engineering for optimized responses
- Fine-tuned open-source LLMs (SFT, LoRA) for domain-specific behavior and integrated them into production workflows
- Developed agent-based bots for Google Chat to handle user interactions and manage calendar events via Google Calendar API
- Built data ingestion pipelines for NLP tasks, integrating Twitter and Google APIs to create datasets for model training
- Containerized AI services with Docker and deployed on AWS, contributing to deployment workflows, monitoring, and system reliability

### Software Engineer (AI & Backend) — AI4GROWTH
Remote · Oct 2023 – Apr 2024

- Built and maintained agent-based Discord bots to automate quizzes, news posting, and content delivery
- Integrated bots with external APIs (Reddit, news sources) for dynamic content ingestion and processing
- Designed backend workflows for scheduled tasks, user interactions, and automated data pipelines
- Implemented monitoring and error handling to ensure reliability of multi-bot systems

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## Projects

### LLM Pretraining — Low-Resource Languages

**[LLAMA3-Nepali-318M](https://huggingface.co/Aananda-giri/LLAMA3-Nepali)**  
From-scratch Nepali language model trained on a custom-curated corpus using PyTorch. Released model weights and live demo publicly.

**[GPT-Nepali-124M](https://huggingface.co/Aananda-giri/GPT2-Nepali)**  
GPT-style language model for Nepali, fully open-sourced including training code, model weights, and demo.

### Production Web Platform

**[License Nepal](https://licensenepal.org)**  
Educational platform with AI-powered audiobook generation, MCQ generation, document sharing, and community forums.

### Data & Automation

**[Nepali Web Scrapy Engine](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Aananda-giri/nepali_llm_datasets)**  
Large-scale Nepali web crawler built with Scrapy, MongoDB, and S3. Datasets published on Hugging Face for LLM pretraining.

### Reinforcement Learning

- Monte-Carlo Tree Search for a turn-based card game (Game of 29)
- Q-learning based autonomous toy car agent

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## Skills

| Area | Technologies |
|------|--------------|
| **Languages** | Python, SQL |
| **ML & LLMs** | PyTorch, Hugging Face, LLM pretraining, SFT, LoRA, RAG, agent systems |
| **Backend** | FastAPI, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis |
| **Data & Automation** | Web crawling, dataset generation, data cleaning |
| **Tools** | LangChain, CrewAI, Agno, Scrapy |

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## Education

### B.E. in Electronics, Communication & Information Engineering
Tribhuvan University · 2019 – 2024

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*Last updated: February 2026*