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Smarika Adhikari

@smarikaadhikari1

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I build production LLM systems, agentic pipelines, and multimodal AI assistants.

Nepal

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build production LLM systems, agentic pipelines, RAG, and multimodal AI products, with opportunities to apply Python, fine-tuning, vector search, and multilingual NLP.

At Kirakira, I architect and ship production LangChain agentic pipelines with structured tool-calling, safety guardrails, and schema-driven execution for a live multi-channel conversational AI platform.

I've delivered 10+ end-to-end AI/ML solutions for education and small-business clients, from data pipelines and model training to deployed REST APIs. My work includes retrieval agents over Neo4j and BigQuery, real-time Bitcoin analytics, and multimodal document assistants using RAG, CLIP, FAISS, Weaviate, and FastAPI.

I also founded and ran a six-month AI/ML internship programme and taught search, neural networks, ML theory, and prompt engineering. I build Python-first systems spanning LLM fine-tuning, vector search, computer vision, and low-resource multilingual NLP for English and Nepali.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

AI Engineer

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Kirakira

Feb 2026 - Present (7 months)

Architected and shipped production LangChain agentic pipelines with structured tool-calling and safety guardrails. Designed platform architecture for a multi-channel assistant, built token-level response streaming, and introduced automated regression testing for LLM outputs.

Lang Chain LangGraph RAG Tool calling Prompt Engineering LLM Evaluation fastAPI Docker GitHub Actions CI CD Python

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Freelance AI/ML Engineer

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Self-Employed

Mar 2023 - Present (3 years 6 months)

Delivered 10+ end-to-end AI/ML solutions for education and small-business clients, covering requirement scoping, data pipelines, model training, and deployed REST APIs. Built a knowledge-graph chatbot and a real-time Bitcoin analytics dashboard.

Python RAG Neo4j BigQuery Pandas Statsmodels REST APIs Data Pipelines Time series Forecasting

Program Supervisor & AI Instructor

Ithari Int’l College / CS50 AI Nepal

Nov 2024 - Apr 2026 (1 year 5 months)

Founded and ran a 6-month AI/ML internship programme covering candidate screening, live industry placements, and weekly mentorship. Taught search, neural networks, and ML theory to 30+ student cohorts plus a 3-day prompt-engineering intensive.

Teaching Mentorship AI ML Prompt Engineering Program Management

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Tribhuvan University, IOE, Purwanchal Campus

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

2021 - 2025

Activities and societies: Winner, IC Quest 2.0 (Best Futuristic Implementation); Winner, GitHub 5-Minute Hackathon; Global Nominee, NASA Space Apps Challenge; Runner-up, ACES Hackathon

Pursued a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from May 2021 to August 2025.