Hi, I’m Rishav Dahal 👋
I am the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at DLPlatforms Pty Ltd and a Backend & DevOps Engineer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. I specialize in architecting resilient cloud infrastructure, high-concurrency APIs, and distributed backend systems.
Whether scaling production platforms across DLSurf, FitHisaab, and Automyc, automating multi-cloud container pipelines, or publishing peer-reviewed research on unsupervised query refinement (ICICSET 2025), I build software engineered for resilience, performance, and automated scale.
💼 Leadership & Professional Roles
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO) — DLPlatforms Pty Ltd
- Leading technical strategy, cloud infrastructure, and backend engineering across three core products:
- DLSurf: High-performance digital content delivery and monetization platform.
- FitHisaab: Comprehensive mobile health, gym, and diet tracking ecosystem.
- Automyc: Intelligent workflow automation and system integration platform.
- Architecting high-availability API stacks, distributed caching layers, and automated multi-cloud deployment pipelines.
- Leading technical strategy, cloud infrastructure, and backend engineering across three core products:
🎓 Education & Academic Research
- B.E. in Software Engineering — Nepal College of Information Technology (NCIT)
- Affiliated with Pokhara University, Nepal.
- Focus areas: Distributed Systems, Database Management, Algorithms, and Software Architecture.
- Published Research Paper (ICICSET 2025):
- “Query Refinement using Latent Dirichlet Allocation”
Presented and published at the International Conference on Innovation in Computing, Science, Engineering and Technology (ICICSET 2025). - Investigated unsupervised query expansion techniques, utilizing Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling and semantic coherence evaluation to improve search relevance in unstructured text corpora.
- “Query Refinement using Latent Dirichlet Allocation”
🏆 Honors, Awards & Hackathons
- 🥇 Winner — Hult Prize NCIT 2023 (Team Weaver)
- Championed a circular-economy enterprise model aimed at reducing textile waste by upcycling used clothing into sustainable modular fashion.
- 🏆 Winner — Hacademia (1st Edition) at King’s College
- Developed and won with Sikshya, an NLP-based lecture summarization and learning assistant platform.
- 🎨 Best UI/UX Award — Sagarmatha Hackathon (Sagarmatha Tech Fest)
- Won the Best UI/UX award with Swasthya, a centralized healthcare record management and accessible medical platform.
🛠️ Core Technical Specializations
- Backend Architecture & Distributed Systems: Architecting modular microservices and high-concurrency APIs using Python (Django, FastAPI) and Go (Fiber) with asynchronous task queues (Celery, Redis).
- DevOps, CI/CD & Cloud Infrastructure: Containerizing production workloads with Docker, configuring automated delivery pipelines with GitHub Actions, and managing cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian), and reverse proxies (Nginx).
- Information Retrieval & Document Processing: Researching unsupervised query expansion and topic modeling (LDA) along with image processing pipelines using OpenCV and Tesseract OCR.
- Data Engineering & Performance Optimization: Relational database modeling, query tuning, connection pooling, and multi-tier caching with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis.
🧰 Technical Toolbox
| Domain | Technologies & Frameworks |
|---|---|
| Programming Languages | Python, Go (Golang), Java, C, C++, SQL, JavaScript |
| Backend Frameworks | Django, Django REST Framework, FastAPI, Go Fiber, Flask |
| DevOps & Cloud | Docker, Docker Compose, GitHub Actions, Linux Administration, Nginx, AWS, GCP, Cloudflare |
| Databases & Caching | PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, SQLite |
| Algorithms & Vision | Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), NLP, OpenCV, Tesseract OCR, Scikit-learn |
| Tooling & Workflows | Git / GitHub, Postman, Linux Shell / Bash, Figma, Jira |
🚀 Featured Engineering Projects & Deep Dives
- Cast in Nepal — Surnames & Gotra Archive: Open-access digital archive documenting 700+ verified Nepali surnames, gotras, ethnic affiliations, and kuldevtas with instant real-time search (Project Details).
- eSewa Intent Payment Gateway Integration: Authored a complete production architectural guide for implementing eSewa v2 Intent APIs in Django with HMAC-SHA256 cryptography and webhook failover mechanisms.
- Modular Query Refinement (NLP & Semantic Search): Researched and developed an unsupervised query enhancement engine leveraging LDA topic coherence.
- OCR Code Compiler 2.0: Developed an end-to-end computer vision pipeline for extracting source code from document images with perspective correction and sandboxed code execution.
- Face Recognition Attendance System: Built an automated attendance tracking pipeline using deep face embeddings and OpenCV real-time video streams.
🤝 Strategic Collaboration & Consulting
I actively collaborate with startups, tech companies, and engineering teams looking for technical leadership in:
- Taking scalable software MVPs from idea to production-grade deployment.
- Modernizing backend architectures, decoupling legacy monolithic apps, and scaling APIs.
- Establishing automated CI/CD pipelines, Docker containerization, and cloud infrastructure.
- Designing high-reliability distributed databases and caching strategies.
📬 Connect With Me
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/risaavdahal
- 🐙 GitHub: github.com/rishav-dahal
- 📧 Direct Email: [email protected]
- 💬 Interactive Contact Hub: Get in touch on the Contact Page