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Zenith: My notes talk back (and more)
A quick Zenith update: a frontend, notes lookup, Kanban tasks, and web research through Wigolo MCP. Now refining the agent loop and tool usage.
Hi, I am Aayush Shrestha
I'm a problem solver at heart, and software just happens to be my favorite tool for the job at the moment. This is my space where I share what I'm building and whatever I pick up along the way. When I'm not tinkering with code, you'll find me out hiking, taking photographs, or lost in a good sci-fi or thriller. Looking for a recommendation? Anything by Blake Crouch (Dark Matter, Recursion, Upgrade) or Dan Brown, and if you're feeling adventurous, Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl :)
Recent Blogs
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Introducing Bedrock: the foundation beneath Zenith
Building Bedrock, a local knowledge layer that turns my Obsidian vault into searchable entries with hybrid retrieval, source evidence, and read-only MCP tools.
Rambling
Zenith: My notes will talk back, soon
Zenith is my vision for creating an AI assistant, that actually shares my knowledge base, and helps me meaningfully.
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Omarchy Quattro
A tiling shell, a unified look across every tool, and a floating bongo cat that bongs when I type.
Career
July 2025 - Present : Data Engineer at Ankamala Research Pvt. Ltd.
I build web data extraction pipelines and OSINT tools that turn messy, unstructured web data into useful insights. My work covers the whole flow: ingesting raw web data, extracting the important bits (NER, heuristic/rule-based parsing, and LLM-driven methods), and storing it in a clean, structured form (relational tables, JSON, graph databases, and RDF triples). Right now I'm working on Entity Resolution and Linkage: figuring out when two records from completely unrelated sources point to the same real-world thing, and modeling the results in an RDF data store.
Education
2022-2026 : Bsc CSIT (Computer Science and Information Technology)
St. Xavier's College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
2025 : Fathers Locke and Stiller Research Awards(LSRA)
Completed my research thesis on "Using Machine Learning to Predict Crop Yield in Nepal", from data collection to model training, tuning and deployment.
2024 : Presenter in ICSXC 2024
Presented my abstract on Machine Learning in Agriculture at the International Conference held in St. Xavier's College.
Experiences
2026 : Epoch Zero: AI Safety Nepal Fellowship
I was part of the 5-week long AI Safety Nepal Fellowship, Epoch Zero, where we discussed topics in AI safety, starting with current capabilities, the risks thats come with it, strategies to mitigate it, how we can build effective evaluations and the role of governance.
Read More →2023-2024 : Chain For Change
I worked as a 3D assets/product designer, 3D printing tactile assets for visually impaired students to supplement their learning material.
Read More →Recent projects
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Sabda, A Nepali vocabulary Building Mobile App
Sabda is a mobile app for learning Nepali vocabulary using structured lessons, quizzes, and spaced repetition. Built with Flutter and Firebase, it offers a modern UI, offline support, and secure data handling.
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Relevancite: your personal research validating AI assistant
RelevanCite is an offline, privacy-preserving AI assistant that automates citation validation for research using NLP, NLI, and modular architecture. All processing is local, ensuring data security and reproducibility.
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OMR
A Python-based project that automates the evaluation of OMR answer sheets using OpenCV for image processing and Tesseract for OCR, exporting results in CSV format.
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PAYO – An Offline Customer Initiated One-Time-QR code based Payment System
PAYO is a secure, offline-first digital payment solution using one-time QR codes, built with React Native, TypeScript, ExpressJS, and MongoDB. It enables real-time payments with minimal connectivity and robust security features.
Stuff
Herdr ↗
Terminal multiplexer built for coding agents, a server that keeps their sessions running through lid closes and reboots, so you can attach from anywhere.
Omarchy ↗
Opinionated Arch + Hyprland setup that turns a fresh install into a fully-tiled, themed dev environment in minutes, my daily driver.
Obsidian ↗
My note-taking, mental map, and knowledge base of operations. Local-first markdown, graph view, plugins for everything, no lock-in.
GLiNER ↗
Zero-shot NER model that pulls any entity type you name without fine-tuning. Lightweight enough to run locally, my go-to for extraction over unstructured text.
Contact
You can reach me at aayushshrestha2003@gmail.com