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 // 1Day2026 —
1Day
day 01
?

This could be you

day 01 · waitlist open

Your name. Your work. Your pitch — 24 hours with the whole community watching.

128 in the crowd

the stage resets in

--:--:--

that's your real local midnight

interactive concept · waitlist live
EX.011Day · Founder

1Day

New builders never get seen — reach belongs to whoever already has it

A social stage where every 24 hours oneperson gets the entire community's attention — show your work, sell your thing, be seen. At midnight, the stage resets. In design now, shipping in public. The countdown in the demo is your real midnight.

1
person on stage
24h
then it resets
0
followers required
Product 0→1ReactNetlify
one-day.app ↗
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
5
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 tracked
$0
raised
0+
families
0+
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
132.5133.0133.5134.0134.5FEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUG
actualmodel
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.

10
students led
30+
workshop participants
∞
stories worth saving
NLPPythonDevanagari corpus
uunchai on github ↗
01

ship weekly

momentum is a feature

02

measure what matters

users, not stars

03

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.

0+
students engaged
Moliss Tech Community — Founder

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

0
students led
Uunchai — Co-founder

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

0K
people reached
Covid Resources Nepal — Research Lead

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

0
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 terminal↗XchangeSocial finance platform — markets meet your friends↗BonsaiSummarizes your important emails into a text — translates them too↗Blood DonorDirect donor-to-patient blood matching for Nepal↗KhojaFind collaborators for anything — community-run matching↗Gyan-eA doubt-clearing platform built on curiosity↗AutoPlotDrop a CSV, get publication-ready charts↗LumifyA small search engine, built to understand search↗

+ 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
  • 1Day begins — one person, one spotlight, every 24 hours. Waitlist is live.
  • 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

Code compiles.
It doesn't dance.

Music, fitness, markets — the parts of me that don't fit in a repo live on Instagram. The stage is dark. You brought a torch.

stage // @withbinayakafter hours

[ it's dark in here — tap the torch ]

lights: offfollow @withbinayak ↗

open — fall ’26 co-ops · new-grad ’27 · swe / ml

Building something
ambitious?

I'd love to talk. I reply fast — shipping weekly trains you to.

email me ↗
github ↗linkedin ↗résumé (pdf) ↗