Software engineer & entrepreneur

Kaushal Subedi.

Building autonomous systems for businesses fully run by AI.

Co-founder and CEO of echowin. Building TurnPanel. Connecting engineering, design, and business to turn ambitious ideas into working systems.

AI agents
Connected workflows
Autonomous business

Engineer

Software · Systems · AI · Robotics

Builder

Products · Teams · Businesses

Creator

Design · Photography · Making

Always exploringPhotography & designTech & makingCars & motorsportOutdoors & fitnessMusic, reading & travel

What I’m building

Turning AI into businesses that run autonomously.

Other projects: Awesome Cafe ↗, turning text into podcasts, and NepaliSpeech ↗, free Nepali text-to-speech since 2015.

Experience

The projects, teams, and problems that shaped how I build.

2024 to Present

Awesome Cafe ↗

Founder

A side project making written content easier to consume through AI-generated podcasts.

  • Built a pipeline that turns text into natural-sounding podcast episodes using AI and text-to-speech.
  • Combines language processing, voice synthesis, and audio processing to make information accessible on the go.

2022 to Present

echowin ↗

Co-founder, CEO & Software Engineer

Left my software engineering career after working with GPT-3 to make functional AI accessible to small businesses.

  • Built an AI call-answering platform that handles inbound calls and automates the business workflows behind them.
  • Connects customer conversations to practical outcomes, from answering questions to booking appointments.
  • A Jiffy Lube franchisee reported a fivefold increase in customer appointments with AI phone agents.

2019 to 2022

Amazon

Software Engineer

Worked across autonomous warehouse robotics and personalized shopping experiences at scale.

  • Amazon Robotics, March 2019 to February 2022: designed human-robot interfaces, built fleet management and scheduling tools, and improved developer productivity.
  • Personalization, February to October 2022: ran frontend experiments and maintained a shared component library used by multiple teams.
  • Built experiences for systems serving millions of customers, connecting engineering decisions to measurable customer impact.

2019

CANVAS Technology

Software Engineer

Built full stack tools for autonomous robots using vision-based navigation in spaces without prior mapping.

  • Created embedded interfaces for human-machine interaction and a control panel for operating robots.
  • Worked across React, React Native, Elixir, PostgreSQL, and TypeScript.

2016 to 2018

Armstrong Steel

Full Stack Software Engineer

Led internal technology projects that replaced third-party systems and automated slow legacy processes.

  • Built an intranet connecting Salesforce, Google Apps, DocuSign, and other business systems.
  • Migrated six years of Salesforce data into internal tooling.
  • Developed automation that simulated human interactions with legacy software, reducing customer wait times from weeks to minutes and saving millions in annual running costs.

2015

NepaliSpeech.com ↗

Founder

Created a Nepali text-to-speech service after volunteering with Translators Without Borders during the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

  • Used voice technology to bridge communication gaps and make digital content more accessible to Nepali speakers.
  • The service remains free to use.

2013 to 2015

Nexim Web Hosting

Founder & CEO

Grew a hosting business from scratch to 7,000 monthly recurring customers.

  • Managed server infrastructure with CentOS and cPanel, built a custom web server in Go, and automated day-to-day operations.
  • Led customer acquisition, marketing, team management, and vendor relationships while connecting the product to a sustainable business model.

2013 to 2015

iscene LLC

Full Stack Web Developer

Built a collaboration platform connecting K-12 students in Longmont, Colorado, with students in Nangi, Nepal.

  • Worked with Mahabir Pun on a platform for cross-cultural learning and shared school projects.
  • Designed, implemented, and tested the stack using AngularJS, Laravel, Node.js, Go, Redis, and MySQL.

2010 to 2018

FriDev

Founder

Built custom web and mobile applications for clients ranging from individuals to enterprises.

  • Created mobile apps with more than 2 million combined downloads, including an early Android text-to-speech app.
  • Worked across React, Angular, native iOS and Android, Laravel, and Go.