Product · Open source
Receipts to structured data: an open-source Python package, and a web app to scan, check and export them.
2024GitHub stars · now
Bhimraj Yadav
Software engineer · Kathmandu, Nepal
I build products, and the tools developers use to build them.
I'm a software engineer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Most days I'm designing systems and shipping features with my team, contributing to open source, or experimenting with LLMs and agents, and I write about what I learn along the way.
01Work
Experience
Products, open source, and infrastructure.
Since 2022
Lead and build products
Software Engineer · full-time at Fetchly Labs
Leading the team that takes products and features from idea to launch, and building right alongside them.
Trusted to step in when a project needs direction.
Since 2024
Maintain open source
Tier 2 open-source contributor at Lightning AI
Helping maintain open-source tools teams use to train and serve models, and cutting their releases.
From first PR to helping maintain the ecosystem.
Since 2024
Advise on software & infra
Consultant at StableCluster
Guiding AI and software teams on cloud infrastructure, deployment workflows and production-ready systems, and getting hands-on when the work needs it.
02Projects
Selected work
My own projects, model APIs, and research.
My projectOct 2026
vps-ready
A Rust CLI that makes a fresh VPS ready and secure: audit, plan, apply and roll back, without locking yourself out.
$ sudo vps-ready audit 21 passed · 5 failed · 1 unknown$ sudo vps-ready apply Confirm from a new SSH login, or it rolls back
Rustvps-ready.bhimraj.com.np
Projects2022 – 2026
Model APIs, demos and experiments
Object detection and text-to-speech APIs, chat apps for vision-language models like Qwen2-VL and Llama 3.2 Vision, and 3D lung tumour segmentation.
Research · IEEE Access2024
A Comparative Study of State-of-the-Art Deep Learning Models for Semantic Segmentation of Pores in Scanning Electron Microscope Images of Activated Carbon
Peer-reviewed journal paper, co-authored with B. Pokharel et al. Vol. 12, pp. 50217–50243.
03Blog
Writing
Long-form posts on what I build and learn, and where else to find me.
From the blog
All postsHow to Implement UNet in PyTorch for Image Segmentation from Scratch?
Learn how to implement the UNet architecture for image segmentation from scratch using PyTorch. This tutorial covers the step-by-step process of building the model, including its architecture and necessary functions, to perform image segmentation tasks in PyTorch.
7 min read#pytorch#unet
What is Event-Driven Architecture? Everything You Need To Know
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is a software architecture based on a pub/sub model where an event is produced by the producer, stored on the queue and consumed by the consumers as an event stream.
7 min read#event-driven-architecture#event-processing
04Beyond code
A little more about me
Away from the keyboard, you'll find me travelling, exploring new things, working out, or lost in a good playlist.
Currently
- Building
- vps-ready · make a fresh VPS ready and secure
- Receipt OCR · structured data from receipts with OCR and LLMs
- Learning
- Reading
- Building Secure & Reliable Systems · Google
- Site Reliability Engineering · Google
Off the clock
- Travelling
- Exploring new things
- Working out
- Music
- LLMs
- Agents
- Open source
- Rust
Based inKathmandu, Nepal
05Contact
Say hello.
Products, open-source tools, infrastructure, or a research idea: I'm open to talking about any of them. A direct message is the fastest way to reach me.
Not ready to talk? Stay in the loop.
New posts, releases, and the occasional research note, sent only when there's something worth sharing.