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SAUGAT KCVP & Founder — Building Nepal's Engineering Future

I build things that matter — systems, teams, and organizations that outlast any single project.

17+ years at the intersection of engineering and leadership — from Deep-Learning CAD systems in Tokyo to founding & scaling MISUMI Nepal as an engineering hub.

17+
Years
global tech
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Patent
JP 6538977
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Languages
EN·JP·NE·HI
◦ CAREER PATH17+ YEARSNEPALJAPAN20092013201720212025NOWSystem EngineerE&T Nepal · Kathmandu · 2009–12System EngineerE&T co. · Tokyo · 2012–15R&D EngineerMISUMI Corp · Tokyo · 2015–17Next-Gen Systems · LeadMISUMI Corp · Tokyo · 2017–25VP & FounderMISUMI Nepal · Kathmandu · 2025→
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About

// Builder · Connector · Leader

Over 17 years I've worked at the intersection of engineering and leadership, turning complex technical challenges into real-world solutions for global companies. My career has taken me from building cloud-based GPU systems and Deep-Learning-powered CAD tools in Tokyo, to founding and scaling MISUMI Nepal — a subsidiary connecting Nepal's engineering talent to Japan's precision-manufacturing industry.

At MISUMI Corporation Japan I spent nearly a decade pioneering next-generation AI systems that transformed how engineers design, search, and automate manufacturing workflows — including one of the industry's first Deep-Learning-based 3D part recommendation engines.

In 2025 I took on my most defining challenge yet: launching MISUMI Nepal from scratch as Vice President — building the team, the culture, and the infrastructure, and delivering 20–30% improvements in speed without sacrificing quality. Great technology is only half the equation; the other half is people — empowering them and connecting them across Japan, Nepal & Thailand.

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Experience

// 2009 → present
JAN 2025 — PRESENTThapathali, Kathmandu · NP
Vice President
MISUMI NEPAL · Founding leadership
  • Spearheaded the launch and growth of MISUMI Nepal — transforming it from concept into a fully operational engineering hub.
  • Built and scaled a high-performing multicultural team from the ground up, with an open-office culture spanning Japan–Nepal operations.
  • Established the organizational framework, hiring pipeline, and technical infrastructure enabling Nepal-based engineers to contribute to global MISUMI products.
  • Represented MISUMI Nepal at the Nepal–Japan IT Forum 2025.
AUG 2017 — FEB 2025Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo · JP
Next-Generation System Development — Leader
MISUMI Corp. Japan · 株式会社ミスミ
  • Led creation of MISUMI's next-generation AI-powered engineering platform over 7+ years for global R&D CAD-based manufacturing workflows.
  • Pioneered a Deep-Learning-based 3D part search & recommendation system — one of the first of its kind in industrial manufacturing.
  • Architected a Big-Data market-intelligence platform for sales/marketing, replacing manual processes with automated real-time insights.
  • Led cross-functional teams across multiple simultaneous projects, improving delivery speed by 20–30%.
APR 2015 — AUG 2017Tokyo · JP
R&D Engineer / System Development
MISUMI Corp. Japan
  • Laid the technical foundation for MISUMI's next-generation AI & automation platform.
  • Developed functional CAD-tool prototypes for Factory Automation; initiated research into Web-CAD, Deep Learning & Big Data.
  • Designed core system architecture as the blueprint for scalable enterprise-grade platforms.
DEC 2012 — FEB 2015Japan
System Engineer
E&T co., Ltd. Japan
  • Built a cloud-based high-speed GPU calculation system and high-speed data-transfer system from scratch.
  • Designed and launched an in-house Project Management & HR system.
APR 2009 — NOV 2012New Road, Kathmandu · NP
System Engineer
E&T Nepal Pvt. Ltd.
  • Developed a CAD-based cloud application using WPF/WCF APIs.
  • Delivered an ASP.NET financial-reporting system and a Ruby-on-Rails project-management system.
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Selected Work

// Systems shipped at scale
Deep Learning · 2017–2022

3D Part Search & Recommendation Engine

Proprietary dataset of 450,000+ CAD models; custom PointNet architecture trained and deployed via Docker at enterprise scale — one of the first of its kind in industrial manufacturing.

PointNetTensorFlowDocker
Big Data · 2018–2020

Market Analysis & Intelligence Platform

Enterprise-scale analytics processing millions of customer interaction logs for predictive analytics and recommendations — replacing manual reporting with real-time insight.

Big DataPredictiveETL
CAD Automation · 2016–present

Non-Standard CAD Design Module

Automatic 3D model generation with built-in model validation and cost estimation, embedded directly into manufacturing design workflows.

SolidWorks APIParametric
WebGL · 2015

Online CAD Assembly System

WebGL-based online CAD assembly prototype presented at the DMS-2015 expo, plus a web parametric design engine generating CAD on the fly across 15 CAD units.

WebGLWeb-CADRPC
GPU Infrastructure · 2014

Cloud Calculation Center

Real-time monitored GPU compute cluster — 15 GPU servers each in Japan and Thailand — with a UDP-based high-speed data-transmission layer.

GPU ClusterUDPMonitoring
Computer Vision · 2016–2017

Visual Feature 3D Model Search

SIFT-based keypoint extraction with convolution-based feature descriptors, validated across 10,000+ CAD models for shape-based retrieval.

SIFTCVRetrieval
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Recognition

// Patent & Awards
Patent · Issued Jun 14 2019

Automated BOM Generation from 3D CAD Manufacturing Workflows

A design-assistance system that generates Bill-of-Materials data directly from 3D CAD assemblies — eliminating manual entry and reducing ordering errors in precision manufacturing.

JP 6538977 — Design Assistance System
FA Innovation Award · Mar 2016

Best Innovation — Factory Automation Division

MISUMI's highest innovation honor, awarded for pioneering a next-generation system that transformed CAD-designer / system-engineer collaboration across manufacturing workflows.

MISUMI Factory Automation Business Division
// LET'S BUILD SOMETHING THAT LASTS

Let's connect.

Open to conversations on AI for manufacturing, engineering leadership, and building world-class teams between Japan & Nepal.