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Samir Dahal

AI engineer with six years turning research into reliable products. Retrieval, evals, and LLM infrastructure built to survive real traffic. This site tracks everything I build, write, and wonder about.

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6 yrs
in production ML
40M
docs indexed
2.1k โ˜…
on open source
p99 40ms
search latency
01 / SELECTED WORK

Things I've built

All projects โ†’

Semantic Search Engine

p99 40ms

Sub-50ms vector search over 40M documents. Hybrid dense + lexical ranking with a Rust serving layer.

RustFAISSgRPC

LLM Eval Harness

2.1k โ˜…

Open-source framework for regression-testing LLM apps โ€” golden sets, LLM-as-judge, CI gates.

PythonOSSCI

RAG Doc Assistant

live

Chat with your knowledge base. Grounded answers, citations, and confidence scoring on every reply.

Next.jspgvector

Vision QC Model

99.2% F1

Real-time defect detection on the factory floor, quantized to run on edge devices at 30fps.

PyTorchONNXEdge
02 / WRITING

From the blog

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03 / NOW

What I'm doing right now

Kathmandu ยท July 2026

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Building
An agent framework with first-class evaluation and rollback baked in.
๐Ÿ“š Learning
Mechanistic interpretability โ€” reading the Anthropic circuits work.
โœ๏ธ Writing
A series on making LLM systems observable and testable.
๐ŸŽฏ Open to
Senior / staff AI engineering roles. Remote or Kathmandu-friendly.
04 / EXPERIENCE

Where I've worked

2023 โ€” Now
Senior AI Engineer ยท Northwind AI
Own the retrieval + eval stack. Led the search rebuild that cut latency 4ร— and lifted answer quality 22%.
2021 โ€” 2023
ML Engineer ยท Deeptek
Shipped the vision QC model to 12 factory lines. Built the training + labeling pipeline from scratch.
2020 โ€” 2021
Data Scientist ยท Fusemachines
Forecasting and NLP for enterprise clients. First taste of putting models in front of real users.

Let's build something worth shipping.

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