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 currently work as a Product Designer at Highstep Technologies.
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 am exploring and building with AI at the centre: tools, skills, plugins and frameworks that help people and agents work together. The Agent Operating System is one part of that work.
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 and stay engaged. More than 500 people took part.
The full record (roles, education, certifications) is on the CV page.
Working with me
My work covers product design, AI automation and technology consulting.
How to work with me explains the way I approach a project, communicate and make decisions with you.
Book a 30-minute meeting to talk about your project.
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.