Sulav Paudel Portfolio / 2026

Sulav Paudel

CS Undergrad | Developer | Debater | Teacher

I build practical software for real problems: sentiment analytics, mobile finance tools and AI utilities. The rest of my time goes into teaching. Years of debate and public speaking taught me that clarity matters as much in an interface as it does in an argument.

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  • 100+Students taught
  • 4Shipped projects
  • 7Roles held
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Sulav Paudel
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About

Two halves of the same habit: taking something complicated and making it legible.

sulav.js read-only 
class SulavPaudel {
    constructor() {
        this.role      = "CS Undergraduate";
        this.focus     = ["NLP", "Full-stack", "Mobile"];
        this.principle = "Ship something people can actually use";
    }

    build() {
        return this.focus.map(area => solveRealProblem(area));
    }

    grow() {
        return "Take the hard brief. Learn in public.";
    }
}

I like problems that survive contact with real users: data that is messy, APIs that rate-limit, models that need tuning rather than a demo that only works once.

Most of what I build ends up somewhere between data and interface, scraping and scoring thousands of comments, then making the result readable at a glance.

“Strong communication is not decoration on top of good work. It is the part that makes the work usable by anyone else.”

My route into tech ran through communication. As a public speaker and debate trainer I learned to value clarity, structure and impact above cleverness.

Whether I am mentoring, chairing a discussion or presenting an idea, the method is the same: listen properly, structure the argument, then say it plainly.

That carries directly into engineering: naming things well, writing docs people read, and explaining trade-offs without hiding behind jargon.

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Experience

Teaching, engineering and operations, filtered by kind of work.

  1. Danson Solutions

    Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

    1. AI Fellowship Intern

      Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
      Fellowship
      • Independently engineered the Public Sentiment Index and delivered it as a production-ready NLP application, processing 8,000+ social media comments in under 30 seconds with Flask, RoBERTa and Docker.
      • Designed an Optuna-powered hyperparameter search system for BERT fine-tuning through the Hugging Face Trainer API.
      • Built models across the full machine learning spectrum, from classic algorithms through transformers to retrieval-augmented generation.

  2. Debate Network Nepal

    debate.net.np
    Dec 2022 – Jan 2024

    1. Debate Trainer

      Apr 2023 – Jan 2024
      Freelance
      • Trained 100+ students across 4+ schools in WSDC, British and Asian parliamentary formats.
      • Built curriculum around critical thinking, persuasion and the art of argumentation.

    2. Deputy Head of Operations

      Jan 2023 – Apr 2023
      Full time
      • Organised and ran large-scale debate tournaments end to end.
      • Owned logistics, scheduling and sponsorship outreach.
      • Built partnerships that kept the community financially sustainable.

    3. IT Officer

      Dec 2022 – Jan 2023
      Full time
      • Maintained the organisation's website with full admin privileges.
      • Ran the social platforms, including designing and producing original posts.

  3. Mero Sikshya

    merosiksha.com
    Feb 2022 – Sep 2023

    1. Tutor

      Feb 2022 – Sep 2023
      Contract
      • Tutored A-Level and Grade 5+ students across mathematics, computer science and physics.
      • Mathematics: calculus I & II, probability, statistics, mechanics.
      • Computer Science: Python, algorithms and data structures.
      • Physics: particle, quantum and nuclear.

  4. Incubate Nepal

    incubatenepal.com
    Aug 2022 – Aug 2023

    1. Peer Mentor

      Jun 2023 – Aug 2023
      Seasonal
      • Mentored a group of four students through research methodology, interviews and project delivery.
      • Acted as the bridge between mentees and the organising committee.

    2. Student Researcher

      Aug 2022 – Nov 2022
      Seasonal · Project: Samrakshana
      • Led research and development: built the database, designed the interface and implemented the interactive map.
      • Focused on surfacing overlooked heritage sites and using technology for cultural preservation.
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Skills

What I reach for, grouped by where it sits in the stack.

A Languages

  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • HTML / CSS

B Frameworks

  • Flask
  • FastAPI
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • JSP / Servlets
  • NativeWind
  • Chart.js

C Data & ML

  • NLP
  • Transformers
  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face
  • scikit-learn
  • Optuna
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • NLTK
  • Statistics

D Platform

  • PostgreSQL
  • Supabase
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • Docker
  • Gunicorn
  • REST APIs
  • Git / GitHub

E Practice

  • Agile / Kanban
  • System design
  • Concurrency & caching
  • Data visualisation
  • Technical writing

F Human

  • Public speaking
  • Debate coaching
  • Mentoring
  • Teaching
  • Operations
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Projects

Selected work: built, shipped and still standing.

PSI logo Web App

Public Sentiment Index

2025

A Flask app that measures how the public feels about any topic. Gemini picks the relevant subreddits and search queries, then background workers mine roughly 90 days of Reddit and YouTube comments behind a live progress bar.

A fine-tuned RoBERTa model scores every comment. Results are stored in Supabase, aggregated into one PSI score and cached so dashboards load instantly. On top of the numbers sit AI deep-dives, an “Ask AI” endpoint grounded in the real comments, and a versus mode that overlays two topics on one timeline.

  • Flask
  • Vertex AI · Gemini
  • RoBERTa
  • Hugging Face
  • PRAW
  • YouTube API
  • Supabase
  • Docker
GitHub
Kharcha logo Mobile App

Kharcha

2025

A privacy-first personal finance tracker. Log and analyse spending across cash, bank, eSewa and Khalti in one place.

Multi-source tracking with graphical reports, and every record stays offline on the device, with no account, no sync and no server.

  • React Native
  • Expo
  • TypeScript
  • NativeWind
  • SQLite
GitHub
YouTube RecapQuiz logo Extension

YouTube RecapQuiz

2025

A Chrome extension that turns what you just watched into a quiz. It detects the watched portion of a video and generates contextual questions from captions and timestamps.

Published on the Chrome Web Store and powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash behind a FastAPI backend.

  • FastAPI
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash
  • JavaScript
  • HTML / CSS
Web Store GitHub
Shaadi Mitra logo Web App

Shaadi Mitra

2024

A modern matchmaking web app built as a college project: traditional matchmaking logic wrapped in a swipe-based interface.

Clean frontend over a structured Java backend with a REST layer and relational schema.

  • Java
  • JSP
  • MySQL
  • REST API
  • HTML / CSS
GitHub
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Contact

Hiring, collaborating or just arguing about something. All welcome.