BINAYAK
JHA.

I build AI products that real people use — and lead the teams that ship them. A pandemic platform that helped 900+ families. AI that speaks Nepali to 30 million people. An FX model that's 98% accurate.

Feel the work ↓

CS @ F&M ’27×Warburg Pincus Fellow @ Wharton×AWS All Builders Grant

Binayak Jha — est. kathmandu27.71°N → 40.04°N

5 apps in 5 weeks200+ users each98% fx forecast accuracy$20,000 raised900+ families supported84,000+ people reached1 of 34 nationwide — warburg pincus fellow275+ students trainedpeer-reviewed quantum crypto co-authoraws all builders welcome grant ’25

01 — the work

Don't read the projects.
Feel them.

Six builds, recreated as living exhibits. Everything below moves, types, and updates — click around. Simulations of the real thing, in miniature.

sim // Imagine Lab2026 —

SIM // IMAGINE LAB

2026 —

CANVAS 1

2 vector elements

rocket

happy sun

TRY:

EX.01IMAGINE LAB · FOUNDER

Imagine Lab

TEACHERS AND CREATORS STRUGGLE TO EXPLAIN COMPLEX ABSTRACT CONCEPTS IN REAL TIME WITHOUT SLIDES OR CODING.

A real-time AI doodle studio where you speak or type to draw vector illustrations, simulate physics, and create animated educational stories instantly. Simulated in miniature.

Voice

speech-to-vector doodle

magic polish & generation

Physics

live simulated components

PRODUCT 0→1REACTCANVAS APIAI MODELS

imagine-lab.tech ↗

sim // HamroGPT2023

HamroGPT

हाम्रो = ours

— pick a prompt below —

नेपालीमा सोध्नुहोस्…demo

EX.02Incubate Nepal

HamroGPT

30M+ Nepali speakers; AI products that didn't speak to them

An AI suite tailored for Nepali users — conversation, stories and translation in Devanagari, tuned for how people actually phrase things. I led a team of five mentees to ship it.

+40%

engagement

5/5

user satisfaction

mentees shipped it

PythonNLPFastAPIReact

sim // Beds & Oxygen, Live2021

covidresources.np

wave II · jun 2021

districticu bedso₂ cylstatus

Kathmandu1241OK

Lalitpur718LOW

Bhaktapur49CRITICAL

Kaski922OK

Chitwan511LOW

Morang815OK

updated 0s ago · 77 districts trackedsimulation of the 2021 platform

raised

families

reached

EX.03Covid Resources Nepal

Beds & Oxygen, Live

Wave II: families dialing hospitals one by one, in the dark

A real-time tracker of hospital beds and oxygen cylinders across Nepal, built mid-crisis by a volunteer team. I led research and the comms that moved relief money where it mattered.

$20K

raised for relief

900+

families supported

84K+

people reached

Web appReal-time dataCampaigns

sim // Forecasting the Rupee2024

USD/NPR· t+1 forecastlstm · gru · arima · ann

actualmodelhover the chart — the gap is the point

EX.04Xuno · Kathmandu

Forecasting the Rupee

Remittance pricing lives and dies on tomorrow's rate

LSTM, GRU, ARIMA and ANN models in PyTorch forecasting USD→NPR, plus automated data pipelines on AWS that cut manual work by 30%. The model line hugs the actual line — that's the product.

98%

directional accuracy

+30%

pipeline efficiency

t+1

day-ahead forecasts

PyTorchLSTM/GRUARIMAAWS

xuno.co ↗

sim // Five Apps, Five Weeks2024

deploy@headstarter — jul–aug 20241 prod deploy / week

WK 01

Inventory AI

Next.js · Firebase

○ queued

WK 02

Support Bot

OpenAI · Pinecone

○ queued

WK 03

Flashcard SaaS

Llama 3.1 · Groq · Stripe

○ queued

WK 04

ProfRank RAG

RAG · Embeddings

○ queued

WK 05

AI Capstone

Next.js · AWS

○ queued

users onboarded: 0+0/5 live

EX.05Headstarter AI · SF Bay Area

Five Apps, Five Weeks

Most side projects die at 80%. Mine had a weekly ship date

A production deploy every Friday for five straight weeks — a support chatbot with RAG over Pinecone that cut resolution time 50%, a flashcard SaaS with Stripe billing, and three more. Each scaled past 200 active users.

1,000+

combined users

–50%

support resolution time

5/5

weeks shipped on time

Next.jsOpenAIPineconeGroqStripe

github ↗

sim // Bhanu: Saving Stories2024 —

uunchai oral archive · rec 047devanagari · nepali

“Once, in the lap of the Himalayas, there was a small village — and a grandmother whose stories echoed through it…”

10 students · one rule: don’t let the stories die

EX.06Uunchai (उँचाई) · Co-founder

Bhanu: Saving Stories

Nepali folk stories die with the grandparents who tell them

An NLP pipeline that archives and translates regional Nepali folk stories before they disappear — built by ten high-school students I recruit, train and lead. Technology pointed at memory.

students led

30+

workshop participants

∞

stories worth saving

NLPPythonDevanagari corpus

uunchai on github ↗

ship weekly

momentum is a feature

measure what matters

users, not stars

bring people with you

teams outlast code

02 — range

Writes the PyTorch.
Reads the DCF.

Most engineers can't sit on the other side of the table. I trained for both — drag the divider.

fx_forecaster.py — xuno

import torch.nn as nn

class FXForecaster(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, n_features=6, hidden=128):
        super().__init__()
        self.lstm = nn.LSTM(n_features, hidden,
                            num_layers=2, dropout=0.2,
                            batch_first=True)
        self.head = nn.Linear(hidden, 1)

    def forward(self, x):  # x: [B, 90, 6]
        out, _ = self.lstm(x)
        return self.head(out[:, -1])  # t+1 USD→NPR

# test: 98% directional accuracy · MAE 0.31 NPR

illustrative dcf — wharton case work

PV of FCF (’25–’29)412

PV of terminal value1,238

Enterprise value1,650

Less: net debt(210)

Equity value1,440

wacc 9.8% · g 2.5% · npr mm

engineerinvestor-literate

▸ Warburg Pincus Fellow ’25 — 1 of 34 nationwide▸ Wharton — 60+ hrs of DCF · LBO · comps · M&A▸ AWS All Builders Welcome Grant ’25▸ Peer-reviewed post-quantum cryptography co-author

03 — leadership

Code scales.
People compound.

Every important thing I've shipped, I shipped with a team I built. Founding things is a habit, not a line on the résumé.

students engaged

Moliss Tech Community — Founder

10 bootcamps, 7 workshops, 5 hackathons across 13 schools. Built from zero.

students led

Uunchai — Co-founder

Recruited and trained the team building Bhanu, the folk-story archive.

people reached

Covid Resources Nepal — Research Lead

Led research & campaigns that moved $20K to 900+ families mid-crisis.

mentees shipped HamroGPT

Incubate Nepal — Peer Mentor

Five students, one real product, 5/5 satisfaction from real users.

350+ people taught, mentored, or led — before turning 22.

04 — also shipped

The rest of the ledger.

Public experiments — some scrappy, all real, all on GitHub.

SecAPIAI-driven API key management & leak prevention, from the terminalPython2026↗XchangeSocial finance platform — markets meet your friendsTypeScript2025↗BonsaiSummarizes your important emails into a text — translates them tooJavaScript2023↗Blood DonorDirect donor-to-patient blood matching for NepalHTML/JS2022↗KhojaFind collaborators for anything — community-run matchingCSS/JS2022↗Gyan-eA doubt-clearing platform built on curiosityJavaScript2021↗AutoPlotDrop a CSV, get publication-ready chartsPython2022↗LumifyA small search engine, built to understand searchJavaScript2023↗

+ olympiad honorable mention · + “vehicle for your route”, 200+ beta users · full ledger on github ↗

05 — ship log

Six years of receipts.

2021

Nepal’s second COVID wave. We ship a real-time hospital-bed & oxygen tracker — $20K raised, 900+ families supported, 84K reached.
Quantum computing research begins at OneQuantum.

2022

Found Moliss Tech Community — 22 events, 275+ students, 13 schools.
Co-author a peer-reviewed paper on post-quantum cryptography.
Equity Bridge internship: scholarship-matching dashboards, +50% successful matches.

2023

Kathmandu → Lancaster, PA. Computer Science @ Franklin & Marshall (’27).
HamroGPT ships at Incubate Nepal — +40% engagement, 5/5 satisfaction.

2024

ML engineering @ Xuno — 98% USD→NPR forecast accuracy in PyTorch.
Headstarter fellowship — 5 AI apps in 5 weeks, 200+ users each.
Co-found Uunchai; “Bhanu” begins preserving Nepali folk stories.

2025

Warburg Pincus Fellow @ Wharton — 1 of 34 nationwide. 60+ hours of DCF, LBO, M&A.
AWS All Builders Welcome Grant recipient.

2026

● now

Imagine Lab launches — a real-time AI doodle studio that lets you draw, animate, and teach with voice and text.
SecAPI ships. GPA 3.75. Graduating May 2027.
Open to fall ’26 co-ops and new-grad ’27 SWE / ML roles. You’re early.

06 — spotlight