Software Engineer
& OSS Contributor
I'm Bhimraj Yadav — Software Engineer at Fetchly Labs, Tier 2 OSS contributor at Lightning AI, Consultant at StableCluster, and AI Researcher. I build production systems and explore computer vision & generative AI.
Currently based in
Kathmandu, Nepal 🇳🇵
Where I've worked
Building software professionally and contributing to the open source ecosystem.
Software Engineer
CurrentBuilding production software and scalable systems at a custom software consultancy serving clients across the US.
Tier 2 OSS Contributor
CurrentActive contributor across the Lightning AI ecosystem — spanning data pipelines, model serving, training frameworks, and LLM tooling.
Contributing to the ecosystem
Consultant
CurrentConsulting on cloud infrastructure, deployment workflows, and production-ready systems for AI and software teams.
Contributing to the ecosystem
394+ contributions and 221 PRs merged across the open source ecosystem.
LitData
Speed up model training by fixing data loading.
LitServe
A minimal Python framework for building custom AI inference servers with full control over logic, batching, and scaling.
PyTorch Lightning
Pretrain, finetune ANY AI model of ANY size on 1 or 10,000+ GPUs with zero code changes.
Building in the open
A self-authored project that's found an audience — and keeps growing.
receipt-ocr
An efficient OCR engine for receipt image processing.
Writing & thinking
Technical deep-dives on architecture, ML, and building in the open.
Academic work
Publications and research notes on AI, computer vision, and deep learning.
A Comparative Study of State-of-the-Art Deep Learning Models for Semantic Segmentation of Pores in SEM Images
B. Pokharel et al. · IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 50217–50243
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Thoughts on software engineering, OSS, AI research, and what I'm building — delivered occasionally.