About
I am a product designer and AI solutions architect. People call me Prav, and I write as Prav O. I have been making things people can use since 2000: print, then websites, then products. I am a Product Designer at Highstep Technologies. My CV has the full record.
My early product work included BattiGayo, Medibook and the Sampression WordPress themes. I led teams and worked closely with designers and engineers across the product, from shaping its direction to day-to-day design and development decisions. BattiGayo helped people in Nepal plan around power cuts.
I have kept building, from a small password generator to command-line tools. These days I build tools that help people and AI agents work together. One is the Agent Operating System: a written model for working with coding agents as a small team with one human owner.
Teaching is another part of my work. I have lectured in human-computer interaction on a UK university degree and supervised final-year multimedia projects across five years.
During the pandemic, I ran a free design course in Nepali so people could learn a skill. More than 500 people took part.
Working with me
I take on product design, AI automation and technology consulting work with a real problem in it. How to work with me explains how I approach a project, communicate and make decisions with you.
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Press and talks
- WordCamp Kathmandu 2026: panellist, The AI Shift: Change, Challenges, and Opportunities for Tech Businesses, on how technology businesses adapt to AI.
- The Doers Nepal podcast: The fall and rise of a tech entrepreneur (14 June 2024).
- CAN Bagmati: resource person, Webinar on e-commerce (12 September 2020).
- CAN Federation: speaker, Go Digital: remote work for a distributed workforce (6 May 2020).
- WordCamp Kathmandu organising team: 2017 · 2018.
- Republica: Made-in-Nepal apps for your smartphones (January 2013), on BattiGayo (16,000 downloads at the time, about 1,000 a week) and app development in Nepal.
- Lex Limbu: Nepali Apps (January 2013), BattiGayo picked as “a pakka solution” for load-shedding schedules.
Elsewhere
- GitHub: the code for inkwell, the Agent Operating System and Mano Atlas, the three WordPress themes, and the small tools I build to learn.
- WordPress.org: three free themes, Sampression Lite, Naya Lite and Finedine, since 2012.
- Drupal.org: member since 2010.
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