Satya Prakash Dahal · Pokhara, Nepal

Software engineer building web scrapers, data pipelines and MCP tooling for AI agents. Outside work I contribute to open source, with fixes and features merged upstream.

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Software Engineer at JyabaSince December 2025
In production
110+ Scrapy spidersRetail, jobs, real estate, finance
Upstream
Merged into KDE PlasmaBikram Sambat calendar, 6.8

Experience

Software Engineer · Jyaba

Dec 2025 — nowPokhara, Nepal

I work on the data side: getting information off the web reliably and into a shape other systems — and AI agents — can use.

  • Write production Scrapy spiders day to day: 110+ so far, across retail, reviews, jobs, real estate, finance and research sites. API-first, with a browser only when needed.
  • Built an agent pipeline that turns a URL into a working Scrapy spider.
  • Wrote MCP servers and extended Chrome DevTools MCP for AI agents.
  • Built a layered data pipeline on S3 and PostgreSQL, with LLM extraction.
  • Rebuilt contact extraction for a legal-PDF service, with OCR for scanned pages.
  • Build and package a patched Chromium for Scrapy and Playwright.
  • Python
  • Scrapy
  • Playwright
  • MCP
  • Chromium
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS S3
  • Jenkins
  • FastAPI
  • Docker

Freelance web scraper · Omnimart

Dec 2021 — Feb 2022Remote

My first paid scraping job: stocking a Belgian online grocery store with products from three supermarket chains.

  • Scraped about 20,000 products, with prices, images, descriptions and categories, into the store’s import format.
  • Matched scraped items to the store’s existing catalogue and set prices from the source plus a fixed margin.
  • Python
  • Requests
  • BeautifulSoup

Open source

Merged  KDE Plasma 6.8 · 1 Sep 2026

Bikram Sambat support for Plasma’s alternate calendar

Plasma’s clock could show Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic and Ethiopian dates — but not the official calendar of Nepal. I wrote the C++/Qt provider that adds it: a century of government-published month lengths (BS 2000–2099) as compile-time tables, a fallback for dates outside them, and Devanagari labels.

Reviewed and merged by Nate Graham. It closes a feature request open since February 2025 and ships to every Plasma 6.8 user.

Read the write-up Merge request !1113

Projects

Things I’ve built, from face matching to terminal games.

Create Event form with a dialog showing the new event's code and a QR code for guests. Add your face screen with a Start Camera button. Picatu home page: Find your photos in a snap. Supported events: live shows, sports, weddings and festivals.

Picatu

Find yourself in event photos from a single selfie. A team project where I built the face-recognition service.

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  • A team of three. My part was the recognition service: a Flask API with Celery workers on Redis, called by the team’s Node.js gateway.
  • Uploaded event photos are encoded by a multithreaded C++17 program I wrote on Dlib’s ResNet face model, built against CUDA. Threads share a pool of model instances, and each photo gets a 128-number face descriptor.
  • A guest’s selfie is encoded once and compared against every photo in the event. A distance of 0.6 or less counts as a match.
  • Python
  • Flask
  • C++
  • Dlib
  • Celery
termrex mid-game: a pixel dinosaur running toward cacti, with the score at the top right. termrex game-over screen with a restart icon and high score. termrex title screen with a how-to-play box.

termrex

49 stars on GitHub

The Chrome Dino runner for the terminal, in C++17 with no libraries: just termios and ANSI escape codes.

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  • Runs in any POSIX terminal, down to a bare Linux virtual console.
  • Asks the terminal if it speaks the Kitty keyboard protocol. If it does, ducking uses real key-release events; if not, a tunable key-repeat timer.
  • Sprites are drawn as ASCII art and compiled by a small Python script into ANSI cursor-skip strings and collision masks, so hits are exact to the character.
  • Delta-time game loop with rising speed. Pauses with a warning when the window gets too small, and always restores the terminal on exit.
  • Unicode by default, with an ASCII-only mode for consoles without it.
  • Packaged as an RPM from a spec file in the repo and published on Fedora COPR, so it installs with dnf install termrex. Elsewhere it builds with plain make on Linux, macOS and BSD.
  • C++
  • Linux
  • Fedora

SourceFedora COPR

Nepali Calendar widget in light and dark themes, showing Poush 2082 in Devanagari with Gregorian dates beneath each day.

Nepali Calendar

17 stars on GitHub

The Plasma widget that came before the upstream work, published on the KDE Store. Month picker, holidays, and tithi calculated from sun and moon longitudes, with no network calls.

  • QML
  • JavaScript
  • KDE Plasma

SourceKDE Store

Albert launcher: typing KDE lists System Settings pages; searching kcm_s finds modules by their internal name.

Albert KCM plugin

Opens any KDE System Settings page straight from the Albert launcher, including the hidden ones Albert skips by default.

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  • Finds settings modules through the Desktop Entry spec in the standard application directories.
  • Filters them by session type, so X11-only or Wayland-only pages don’t show up in the wrong one.
  • Type KDE to list them, or search globally; it can also match a module’s command, like kcm_s.
  • C++
  • Qt
  • KDE Plasma

Source

termiType in a dark terminal: a timer and a stream of words, typed ones in green. termiType in a light terminal with a mistyped word highlighted in red. Results: 100.8 words per minute, 96% accuracy, 98% confidence.

termiType

A typing test for the terminal: live colour feedback, WPM, raw speed, accuracy, and a confidence score that tracks backspaces.

  • C++
  • Linux

Source

TriNetra's mobile app: live camera tiles for Front Door, Living Room and Garage; a history of recorded clips; and the login screen.

TriNetra

Violence detection for home CCTV: an AI service watches live camera feeds, records the moment something happens and alerts the owner’s phone.

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  • A team of three. I built the backend: FastAPI services for auth, cameras and AI behind an API gateway, on PostgreSQL, all run with Docker Compose.
  • The AI service reads each camera’s RTSP stream with OpenCV and classifies sequences of frames with a MobileNet + BiLSTM model in TensorFlow.
  • Once violence holds for 30 frames it saves the clip, riding out short gaps so one incident stays one video, then stores a notification and shares the clip with the app.
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • TensorFlow
  • OpenCV
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker

Toolbox

Scraping & automation

  • Scrapy
  • Playwright
  • Selenium
  • Zendriver
  • BeautifulSoup
  • HTTPX

Data & backend

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • REST
  • WebSockets
  • SQLAlchemy
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL

AI agents

  • MCP servers
  • Agent browser automation

Systems & desktop

  • C++
  • Chromium (source builds)
  • Qt
  • KDE Frameworks
  • JavaScript
  • Emacs Lisp

Infrastructure

  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • AWS S3
  • Git
  • Bash
  • CMake

Community

  • Founding member, GCES Linux Community

    Gandaki College

    Started a student community to get more people onto Linux and contributing to open source.

  • Mentor, Linux Training Program

    Dec 2023 — Jan 2024National Innovation Centre

    Mentored the two-week program at the centre’s ICT Lab in Pokhara: Linux fundamentals, the terminal and basic system administration.

  • 1st runner-up, 9th GCES IT Expo

    2023Gandaki College

    KeySecure — a tool that protects Linux machines from keyloggers.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering Gandaki College of Engineering and Science

2020 — 2025Pokhara, Nepal

Coursework in data structures and algorithms, databases, operating systems and machine learning.

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