नमस्ते, I am

Labbi Karmacharya

Civic technologist, technical data architect, and educator

I build tools that make complicated systems easier for ordinary people to deal with. My work sits where technology, gender, and inclusion meet, and it is about making public life accessible to everyone.

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About me

I build tools that help ordinary people reach their government. I also bring communities that usually get left out into digital life.

I am the Technical Lead of Bureaucrazy, a civic platform serving 5,300+ Nepalis, which won First Runner-Up at the Kevin Xu Innovation Challenge at Rhodes House, Oxford. I co-founded Digital Kala, which equips Nepal's youth, women, and marginalized communities with the skills, awareness, and confidence to navigate the digital world on their own terms. I am the Module Leader and Lecturer for the Big Data and Data Mining module at Islington College, where I teach 200+ students.

I hold a Research Fellowship at Equitech Futures, where I am also building FuturesHub. Through it I served as a Venture Fellow and Alumni Resident Assistant at Reuben College, University of Oxford.

I serve as an International Gender Champions Youth Champion. I am also a 2025 U.S. Embassy Youth Council (USYC) member.

Work

Selected work

Bureaucrazy 5,300+ Nepalis served

Technical Lead

Bureaucrazy

A civic platform that helps Nepalis get through government processes. I lead the technical build, from a RAG chatbot for official documents to a law library and voter tools. It won First Runner-Up at the Kevin Xu Innovation Challenge 2025.

bureaucrazy.co
Digital Kala 585+ people trained

Co-Founder and Technical Lead

Digital Kala

Digital Kala equips Nepal's youth, women, and marginalized communities with the skills, awareness, and confidence to navigate the digital world on their own terms.

digitalkala.org
FuturesHub Learning platform

Research Fellow, Equitech Futures

FuturesHub

An AI-powered learning platform that opens mentorship to people who usually get shut out. I lead the technical build. I also wrote its privacy and data-protection program.

futureshub.com
Polling Station Simulator Voter tool

Builder, Bureaucrazy

Polling Station Simulator

A walk-through of how voting works in Nepal, made for first-time voters. I built it ahead of the 2026 general election so people can practice before they reach the booth.

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Technology and Digital Governance Publication

Author, book chapter

Technology and Digital Governance

My chapter in A Guidebook for Voters in Nepal. It looks at AI governance, data privacy, and the digital divide in Nepal's political life.

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Experience

Where I have worked

  1. 2025 - Present

    Technical Lead and Architect, FuturesHub

    Equitech Futures

    • I lead the frontend and technical architecture of FuturesHub, an AI-powered learning platform that widens access to education. I own the system design, the UI and UX direction, and feature delivery from end to end.
    • I work closely with the backend team on API contracts, data models, and release planning, so features ship across the full stack.
    • I started the platform's privacy and data-protection program and wrote the first draft of the privacy policy.
  2. 2025 - Present

    Technical Lead

    Bureaucrazy

    • I lead the technical build of Bureaucrazy, a civic platform that helps 5,300+ Nepalis get through government processes.
    • I built the RAG chatbot for official documents, the law library, and voter tools including the Polling Station Simulator.
    • Bureaucrazy won First Runner-Up at the Kevin Xu Innovation Challenge 2025. I presented it at the Rhodes House Forum in Oxford.
  3. 2024 - Present

    Module Leader, Big Data and Data Mining

    Islington College

    • I teach Big Data and Data Mining to 200+ undergraduate AI students.
    • My modules cover dimensional modelling, Apache Spark, Databricks, and OLAP systems, with dedicated units on data ethics and algorithmic bias.
    • I supervise final year projects and build the labs, assessments, and reading lists.
  4. 2023 - Present

    Co-Founder and Technical Lead

    Digital Kala

    • I co-founded Digital Kala, which equips Nepal's youth, women, and marginalized communities with the skills, awareness, and confidence to navigate the digital world on their own terms.
    • We have reached 585+ people and train women in villages who have had little access to technology.
    • I built the curriculum and trained local facilitators so each community keeps teaching after we leave.
  5. 2022 - 2024

    Data Scientist

    CloudFactory

    • I led the identity fraud detection system using anomaly detection and XGBoost.
    • I built supervised models to predict worker performance from historical data.
    • I ran AI knowledge sessions for engineering teams and stakeholders.
  6. 2024

    Lecturer, Data Structures and Algorithms

    Apex College

    • I designed the Data Structures and Algorithms course for second-semester students.
    • I taught 50+ computing students with a focus on problem-solving and algorithmic thinking.
  7. 2021 - 2022

    Data Analyst

    Xabit Analytics

    • I shipped a recommendation system for the Himalayan Java coffee app that served 10,000 monthly users.
    • I built dashboards and ran customer segmentation and conversion analysis.
  8. 2019 - 2021

    Program Associate

    Women LEAD Nepal

    • I ran programs, communications, and fundraising for a youth leadership organization.
    • I coordinated events and donor campaigns and designed the outreach materials.
  9. 2021

    Graphic Designer

    Code Rush

    • I designed social content and built the company website on WordPress.

Writing

Things I have written

Technology and Digital Governance Chapter, A Guidebook for Voters in Nepal HERstory Amplified Medium, on women in science and technology A Beginner's Guide to IoT with ESP32 Medium, a hands-on hardware walk-through

Speaking & Advocacy

Rooms I show up in

Across mentorship, panels, and talks I have reached 500+ people at more than ten institutions. As an IGC Youth Champion I was paired with Sameer Chauhan, the Director of the UN International Computing Centre, and I joined him on the IGC Global Podcast in 2024. I am also a 2025 U.S. Embassy Youth Council (USYC) member.

Mentorship

  • DeerHack

    I mentored the team that won the Ed-Tech track at Deerwalk Institute of Technology.

  • Shequal Foundation Hackathon

    I mentored builders at this all-female hackathon.

  • Hack-A-Thon

    I mentored at Nepal's first school-level hackathon, which brought together 53 teams from 40 schools.

  • Women LEAD Nepal

    I facilitate sessions for youth leaders, including one on ethics and bias in AI.

Speaking & panels

  • IGC Global Podcast

    I was the featured guest in 2024, alongside the Director of the UNICC.

  • Empower Her, Kathmandu University

    I joined the panel on women in technology.

  • Empowering Women in Tech

    I sat on the panel at the Janakpur Tech Bootcamp.

  • Data Symposium 2024, King's College

    I was a panelist on data and its social impact.

  • SHELITS Programme

    I spoke as a guest for the KU AI Club and NAST.

Topics I speak on

  • AI ethics
  • AI governance
  • Data privacy
  • Women in technology
  • Digital inclusion
  • Data skills

Awards & Recognition

Recognition

Kevin Xu Innovation Challenge

First Runner-Up. Rhodes House, Oxford. 2025.

Best Final Year IT Project

London Metropolitan University, among 750+ projects.

Sujata Baskota Changemaker Award

For grassroots digital literacy with Digital Kala.

Projects

A few other things I've built

Chess Engine (MinMax Algo)

I had no idea how to play chess, so I taught a computer to play it with a MinMax algorithm and learned the game alongside it.

GitHub

Ropey DVD Management System

A system that helps a DVD store track rentals, returns, and the details of its members.

GitHub

Karmasta Music Store

A prototype music store site built with XML for a hypothetical company looking to go online.

GitHub

Berkeley College System

A web database system for a hypothetical college that handles full CRUD operations.

GitHub

66 Days of Data

A personal challenge inspired by Ken Jee to build daily data science habits and share the work.

GitHub

Certification Station

A place where I keep my certificates for reference and the occasional show-and-tell.

GitHub

Data Science Station

A space for my ongoing data science experiments in analysis, recommendation, and visualization.

GitHub

Pyenv Cheatsheet

Working notes on managing Python versions and environments with pyenv.

GitHub

Git Cheatsheet

Essential commands for version control, branching, merging, and collaboration.

GitHub

Insider Threat Detection Review

A review of a research paper on insider threat detection, with a short summary presentation.

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A Beginner's Guide to IoT with ESP32

A guide to the Internet of Things for people starting out with the ESP32 microcontroller.

Medium

HERstory Amplified

An article on the contributions of women in science and technology.

Medium

Contact

Let's work together

My inbox is open. I would love to hear about fellowships, speaking invitations, and collaborations in civic tech, AI governance, and digital inclusion. Send me a note and I will reply.

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