Abhiyan Dhakal

B.E. in Computer Engineering

Kathmandu University School of Engineering · Dec 2021 – May 2026

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

CGPA: 3.70/4.00

Linux Memory Pressure and Compressed-Memory Management

Independent Research · 2026–present

• Formulated and led a controlled systems study asking whether a PSI-triggered bounded-reclaim intervention can preserve foreground responsiveness when compressed swap is already available.
• Built the experimental harness for cgroup v2 isolation, sustained memory pressure, PSI-triggered actions, zram/zswap telemetry, page-fault and reclaim measurement, and phase-aligned foreground latency traces.
• Selected a 96 MiB reclaim request through a 16-case pilot, then ran 180 confirmatory cases across nine 1-vCPU Linux VMs and four pressure regimes with compute and SQLite workloads.
• Found a 6.2% reduction in compute p99 response time versus static zram, while SQLite showed no statistically distinguishable improvement; the result establishes workload dependence rather than a general benefit.

Nepali Legal Information Retrieval

Dec 2024–Jun 2026

• Conducted first-author research at Kathmandu University’s Information and Language Processing Research Lab under the supervision of Dr. Prakash Poudyal.
• Developed and evaluated a retrieval-augmented system for Nepali legal information, covering statutory-document processing, vector retrieval, query expansion, and evaluation across rule-recall, rhetorical, and interpretation-oriented queries.
• Extended the work into a comparative retrieval study of ten embedding models over 1,023 statutory sections and 200 expert-validated queries, using ranking-based metrics to characterize model behavior in a low-resource language setting.

Automated Scientific Literature Retrieval

2025

• Developed an end-to-end pipeline that generates search terms from research descriptions, retrieves open-access literature, and ranks candidate papers using semantic similarity.
• Evaluated TF-IDF, all-MiniLM-L6-v2, and SPECTER2 and developed score-distribution-based thresholds for automated preliminary screening.

admux

Rust · PTY · Terminal multiplexing · TOML

A Rust terminal multiplexer centered on declarative project layouts, persistent sessions, and best-effort workspace restoration. It grew from an earlier tmux session helper, Smart Session Manager.

• Built a daemon-backed terminal multiplexer with persistent PTY sessions, windows, panes, split layouts, copy mode, mouse support, and tmux-style navigation.
• Designed project-scoped admux.toml manifests and save/restore workflows that separate shareable workspace configuration from machine-local runtime snapshots.
• Implemented workspace aliases, existing-session attachment, configurable keybindings, scrollback restoration, and best-effort command replay across sessions.

github.com/abhiyandhakal/admux · github.com/abhiyandhakal/admux/wiki/Architecture · github.com/abhiyandhakal/ssm

Strata

Rust · TUI · Jupyter · Tree-sitter · Python

A Rust notebook interface for exploratory Python work, using a human-editable Markdown format with Jupyter import/export and checkpointed runtime state.

• Designed a human-editable, Git-friendly .smd notebook format with round-trip Jupyter .ipynb import and export.
• Implemented asynchronous Python, Bash, and JavaScript execution, environment selection, busy-state handling, and checkpoint sidecars for runtime and interface state.
• Added Tree-sitter highlighting, Python LSP activation, image-aware outputs, themes, and regression coverage for serialization, execution, checkpoints, and TUI interaction.

github.com/abhiyandhakal/strata

Backend Engineer · TestMigo

Oct 2025 - Present

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs supporting MockVisa products, with responsibility for production reliability, system architecture, and data flows.
• Manage deployments and infrastructure, including server configuration and CI/CD; diagnose production issues involving backend services, databases, integrations, and application infrastructure.

DevOps Engineer (Freelance) · Navodaya Education Innovation Center

2025-present

• Operated VPS deployment infrastructure and Nginx routing, with responsibility for server hardening and reliable release workflows.
• Designed continuous-delivery workflows for services running in a research and innovation environment.

National Conference on Computer Innovations (NCCI 2025)

Student Conference Coordinator, 2025

• Coordinated organization of a university research conference bringing together student researchers, faculty, and external participants.
• Contributed to conference operations, paper/program coordination, and execution.

Kathmandu University Computer Club (KUCC)

Executive Member (2023–24) · Vice President & Treasurer (2024–25) · President (2025)

• Progressed through three executive terms, taking responsibility for club finances, executive planning, and the coordination of technical and student-community programs.
• Helped organize technical events and workshops for students inside and outside Kathmandu University, coordinating contributors with different technical and operational responsibilities.