AI Engineer · Fullstack Developer · Emerging Scholar

    AsonGautam.

    I design and ship production AI systems, RAG pipelines, and full-stack products — and I'm actively learning through research on retrieval quality, embeddings, and practical LLM systems.

    Expertise

    Core strengths across AI systems, full-stack engineering, and product design.

    AI Engineering

    LLMs & AI Systems

    Building RAG systems, AI agents, and fine-tuned models for production. Strong in prompt engineering, model deployment, and scalable AI solutions.

    • RAG
    • Agents
    • Fine-tuning
    • Prompt Engineering
    • LLMs
    • Python
    • TypeScript

    Full Stack Development

    Frontend, Backend & DevOps

    Shipping complete web applications from database to interface. Experienced with React, Next.js, Node.js, Laravel, Python, and modern cloud infrastructure including CI/CD and containerization.

    • React
    • Next.js
    • Node.js
    • Laravel
    • Python
    • Docker
    • CI/CD

    Product Design

    Strategy, Scope & Delivery

    Shaping products from problem to ship — defining scope, prioritizing features, aligning stakeholders, and turning ideas into clear roadmaps that engineering can execute.

    • Product Strategy
    • Scoping
    • Roadmapping
    • Prioritization
    • User Research
    • Specs

    My
    Work

    A selection of shipped products — React, PWAs, AI systems, and production platforms. Many more live under client NDA or still in progress.

    In development

    PropertyFlow

    Property management for landlords — rent collection, tenants, payments, and reporting across multiple buildings. Currently in build.

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    Career
    Path

    Roles, teams, and systems shipped in production — the path behind the work above.

    1. R&D · Deerwalk Institute of Technology

      AI Engineer & Team Lead

      Lead a 12-person R&D team delivering AI and full-stack products. Own model fine-tuning, prompt systems, and RAG pipelines for production use cases, while shipping end-to-end software and mentoring engineers on modern AI practices.

      Kathmandu, Nepaldeerwalk.edu.np
      • Fine-tuning
      • Prompting
      • RAG
      • Full Stack
      • LLMs
      • Python
      • JS/TS

    2. Freelance

      Fullstack Developer

      Partner with startups and businesses worldwide to design and ship production web apps. Deliver AI-integrated products, modern UI systems, and scalable backends — from first prototype through launch and iteration.

      Remote · Global
      • React
      • Next.js
      • Node.js
      • TypeScript
      • AI
      • UI/UX

    3. Aquiden Software

      Fullstack Developer

      Built full-stack applications across React frontends and Node.js / Laravel backends. Owned API design, SQL data models, and responsive interfaces for client products with reliable end-to-end delivery.

      Kathmandu, Nepalaquiden.com
      • React
      • Node.js
      • Express
      • SQL
      • Laravel

    Research
    Papers

    Peer-ready writing on RAG systems, retrieval quality, and practical AI on consumer hardware.

    • How Chunk Size and Embedding Model Choice Affect Retrieval-Augmented Generation Quality and Cost: A Controlled Comparison on Consumer Hardware

      A controlled study of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, comparing three chunk sizes (128, 256, 512 words) across three compact embedding models (BGE-small, E5-small, MiniLM). Measures indexing cost, retrieval quality (Recall@5), and end-to-end answer quality (F1, Exact Match) on a fixed SQuAD 1.1 benchmark with a local Llama 3.2 3B model, showing that larger chunks and retrieval-tuned embeddings tend to outperform common assumptions.

      • RAG
      • Chunk size
      • Embeddings
      • Dense retrieval
      • SQuAD
      Author
      Ason Gautam
      License
      CC BY 4.0
      Publisher
      Zenodo · v1.0
      ORCID
      0009-0009-1774-6312
      Read paperView on Zenodo

    Client voice

    Testimonials

    Ason helped Music Jam Space take a real leap. Bookings run smoothly, musicians keep coming back, and we're getting international clients too. He didn't just ship a website — he boosted our business.

    Sarnil Maharjan

    Music Jam Space

    Ason built an exceptional website for PowerFlow — clean, fast, and exactly what we needed. His creativity, professionalism, and attention to detail made the whole process straightforward. If you're considering working with him, you're in good hands.

    Rijan

    Powerflow Solutions

    Ason delivered a custom ERP for our startup that transformed how we operate. He organized scattered workflows into one intuitive platform and iterated quickly on feedback. The result is a reliable system our team depends on every day.

    Saujanya Sharma

    Available for select
    freelance opportunities

    Have an exciting project? Email or message me — I'll share availability and a clear next step.

    Elsewhere

    let's build something worth shipping