GEARED WDT + RETRACTABLE NEEDLES + TAMP
PHYSICAL PRODUCT / CAD & 3D PRINTING
Orbit54.
A morning ritual, taken apart and engineered back together. A coffee distribution and tamping prototype for the 54 mm Breville setup.
Navin Ghimire नवीन घिमिरेSOFTWARE ENGINEER / SF BAY AREA
Curiosity,
put to work.
I build the application, the system underneath it,
and the experiment that proves it works.
Explore the work SOFTWARE · AI · PHYSICAL THINGS
01 / Selected work
FROM THE CODEBASE TO THE WORKBENCH
GEARED WDT + RETRACTABLE NEEDLES + TAMP
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NIGHT OVER BESISAHAR / IN-ENGINE RENDER
PROCEDURAL WORLDS / NATIVE ENGINE
A place to get lost.
A quiet village builder on real Himalayan terrain. Twelve settlement grammars, 442 valleys, and a world that grows one house at a time.
Under the hood.
Production systems. Measurable results.
TAILORED BRANDS / 2023–2026
Making a commerce backend
legible to agents.
I wrapped nearly the entire API surface of a production Node backend-for-frontend as MCP tools, so coding agents could exercise the service directly in testing. Then I drove adoption across the engineering team.
3senior engineers adopted
the tooling
TAILORED BRANDS / GROWTH
Shipping the feature.
Testing the difference.
A guided filter and a video pill, shipped as server-side A/B tests. Variant assignment lived in the application layer, with real cache interaction and no client-side flicker. The impact was projected; the experiments were shipped.
2features delivered
end to end
INDEPENDENT / LOCAL AI
From a song
to a finished film.
A music-video pipeline on one 16 GB GPU: generated keyframes, animation, voice, and edit. Models run in sequence; cuts follow the measured beat grid. Quality gates catch drift before it reaches the final sequence.
6,368frames assembled
to plan
02 / The labEXPERIMENTS THAT EARNED THEIR DISK SPACE
Follow the
interesting question.
A few turn into projects. Many don’t.
These are the experiments worth keeping.12 NOTES FROM THE WORKBENCH
01
foundry
Local video generation with GPU admission control and quality gates on every take.
296 takes · 264 benchmark rows02
hey-claw
An always-on voice agent, from wake word to spoken reply.
129 commits · runs at logon03
cc-command-center
Agent racing with a panel of verifiers to judge the results.
6 scored runs04
bun-vs-node
The same instrumented service, built twice to test the claims.
8 claims · 2 contradicted05
gaea over MCP
Terrain generation from real Earth coordinates, exposed as agent tools.
188 nodes · 1,223 parameters06
sahitya karaoke
A Nepali karaoke studio and a singing-voice detector fine-tune.
DistilHuBERT · 0.915 F107
comedy, measured
Laughter detection, shot grammar, and reaction timing in Nepali comedy.
262 shots · 22 automatic cuts08
nepal-law
An append-only, hash-chained archive of Nepal’s federal law.
17,011 documents09
3dprint-nepal
Satellite elevation turned into a four-foot, tiled relief map.
24 watertight STL tiles10
the moat atlas
A study of the YC portfolio, as a book, web app, and ambient display.
6,186 companies · 799 pages11
claude, on glasses
An agent on Ray-Ban Meta glasses, with credentials kept off the device.
Built APK · photographed live12
dark-factory
A software factory that plans, builds, checks, and challenges its own work.
93 commits · self-authored PR merged03 / The road hereनवीन घिमिरे
Hold the bar.
Build the thing.
I’m Navin, a software engineer in South San Francisco. My work moves between production commerce, AI tooling, procedural worlds, and things I can actually hold.
Before software: six years in the US Army as a CBRN specialist, with a last tour in Atsugi, Japan. I served part-time through a computer science degree at the University of Houston.
My working style is simple: make the system legible to the agent, then hold the bar yourself. The specification, the evidence, and the final judgment are still the work.
Current toolkit
TypeScript · Next.js · Node · Rust / wgpu
Python · MCP & agent tooling · CAD