Bigyan Karki
Co-Founder at The Drive AI
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolBigyan Karki is a co-founder and Masters student in Computing Science at the University of Alberta with nine years of engineering experience focused on reinforcement learning and scalable web architectures. He has blended academic research—optimizing AlphaZero for Chinese checkers using JAX/Haiku/Optax and exploring transfer learning—with hands-on teaching as a graduate TA for web application and architecture courses. At Amii and during a DAAD RISE internship in Munich he translated research into applied solutions, from heart anomaly detection literature reviews to creating real/virtual image datasets for lighting estimation. As Co-Founder of The Drive AI, he is applying his RL and systems background to product-focused development while retaining a strong foundation in backend integration and data pipelines. Notably, he builds production-ready wrappers around research codebases to accelerate reproducibility and scaling, a skill that bridges academic results and deployable systems. Based in Edmonton, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a rare mix of deep learning research experience and practical software delivery.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computing Science, Master of Science Computing Science at University of AlbertaBachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Caldwell UniversityA levels science, A levels science at Orient college of science and management
English, Nepali
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Github Skills (64)
angularjs9
react8
oauth8
wysiwyg8
authentication8
jwt8
pulse8
rich-text8
javascript7
nodejs7
reanimated7
interactive7
vue7
appengine7
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Raashul/CaldwellUniversity-CougarBot
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Caldwell University Messenger Bot
Contributions:61 commits, 12 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 months
pythonmessenger-botbotchatbotmessenger
bigyankarki/rock-paper-scissor
Nov 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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