Founder & CEO of FutureStoreAI · Researcher · Learner
I’m Janak Singh Raikhola — a backend engineer, researcher, and founder helping teams ship resilient systems, AI workflows, and practical digital products from concept to production.
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01 — About
I'm Janak Singh Raikhola — backend engineer, software architect and tech researcher based in Nepal. Most of my work lives behind the API: services, queues, data stores and the plumbing that keeps them healthy.
Across six years I've shipped REST and gRPC services, broken monoliths into microservices, built event-driven pipelines on RabbitMQ and Kafka, and wired payment rails for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Binance, Ripple and Dash. On the Web3 side I work across Web3.js, dApps and ERC-20/ERC-721 contracts.
Lately my research has pulled toward AI agents, edge inference and IoT/robotics — the point where a service meets a sensor and has to keep working in the real world. I run the infrastructure too: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, DigitalOcean, Nginx and Jenkins.
01.5 — Education & credentials
01.7 — What colleagues say
“I had the pleasure of working with Janak… He is technically strong, dependable, and consistently delivers high-quality, scalable solutions. His problem-solving skills, ownership, and collaborative attitude make him a valuable teammate.”
“I have worked with Janak on multiple tasks and have always been impressed by his proactive approach to problem-solving. He is a skilled backend developer who communicates clearly and works great within a team.”
“I have worked with Janak for almost 3 years; his backend and blockchain skills are amazing. He uses the debugger to visualize code-flow and fix almost any type of bug.”
“What stood out most was his genuine curiosity… always digging into something new, asking the right questions and pushing himself to understand things at a deeper level.”
“He has complemented his skills and knowledge in backend development with expertise in Web3 and blockchain… He knows exactly how to overcome challenges with his production experience.”
“Janak did an excellent job handling the core tech functions of our software network… He’s a top quality backend core tech engineer.”
“Janak is a highly skilled software developer who consistently delivers quality work and demonstrates excellent problem-solving abilities. He is intelligent, dependable, and quick to adapt to new technologies.”
“Working with Janak has been an absolute privilege. He’s not only a talented backend engineer but also someone who brings positive energy and collaboration into every discussion.”
02 — Experience
Product engineering, platform architecture and research across startups, enterprises and freelance engagements.
FutureStoreAI FSAI
May 2026 — Present Part-time
Remote
Shaped the technical foundation of a SaaS product from the start: scalable architecture for the offering, plus integration of advanced AI systems that lifted real functionality and user engagement. Worked across disciplines to make sure the solution matched what the market actually needed.
FastUsers
May 2026 — Present Part-time
Bangkok City, Thailand · Remote
Senior engineering on a live product, with responsibility for quality across the service boundary. Earlier in the same engagement I owned the backend directly on Node.js and Python from December 2022 to May 2026.
MSQUARE GLOBAL
Apr 2024 — May 2026 Full-time
Seoul, South Korea · Remote
Led backend development for enterprise clients, then carried the same team through its Web3 practice — smart contracts and Web3.js delivery on parallel remote engagements from 2023, and a backend engineering track before that.
MUST Company
Apr 2023 — May 2026 Full-time
Blockchain · FinTech
Built and maintained production services in blockchain and fintech, where correctness is not negotiable and every release carries real money behind it.
Oct 2022 — Feb 2023 Freelance
Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal · Remote
Freelance backend engagements with a 100% Job Success record, covering API documentation and cloud services work.
bitsbeat
Feb 2020 — Sep 2022 Full-time
Nepal
Two and a half years of backend delivery, API documentation and cloud services — where I built the foundations I still build on.
iBriz.ai
Jul 2018 — Feb 2020 On-site
Blockchain · Artificial Intelligence
Internet and market research across blockchain and AI, learning to read a technical landscape quickly and report on it precisely.
TechFlow Space
Jan 2019 — Jan 2020 Full-time
Internet research spanning blockchain and artificial intelligence.
03 — Stack
Python
Node.js
JavaScript
Go
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
RabbitMQ
Ethereum
Solana
Bitcoin
Tether
Binance
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Nginx
Linux
Git
GitHub
GitLab
VS Code
Markdown04 — Robotics & IoT Research
Hardware captures from robotics and IoT experiments — sensor rigs, edge inference runs and bench tests of things that have to survive contact with the real world.
05 — Code & Systems
Captures from programming experiments — service architecture, traces, profiling runs and debugger sessions where the fix was found.
Coding captures are being curated. Drop the originals into
real_code/ and they will appear here.
06 — Work
A few things I've built and open-sourced. More lives in the repository list.
Featured build
Swaggerize Go Gin Backend With MariaDB
A comprehensive starting point for robust, feature-rich Go backends. Gin handles
routing, MariaDB handles storage with Liquibase-managed migrations, and Swagger
documentation is served out of the box — so a new service is one clone away from
a self-describing API on :3000.
$ A Flask application that encrypts and decrypts video files and whole directory trees using AES, with key handling kept out of the upload path.
View sourceAn ERC-20 token deployed on testnet with a companion dApp for transfers, balances and allowance flows.
View sourceA Web3.js client that streams address activity, decodes transaction input and renders incoming and outgoing transfers as they land.
View sourcePractical Solana work in JavaScript: building transactions, signing and sending SOL across the network.
View sourceA clean Truffle project — compile, migrate and test with Ganache, then deploy to an Infura-hosted Ropsten network.
View source07 — Recognition
Posts and announcements from teams I worked with. Originals live on the platforms.
11 — Direction
The research and the services keep feeding each other: sensors push real constraints into the backend, and what the backend learns goes back out to the edge. That loop is the work.
12 — Contact
Got a backend problem, a Web3 integration, or an architecture worth arguing about? My inbox is open.
