Prince Pudasaini · Portfolio 2026Lake Charles, LA · Central Time
Software builder. Community builder.
Prince Pudasaini.
I turn ideas into useful software.
And bring people along.
A Computer Science student at McNeese State, building across the full stack and leading a community of students who want to build, too.
Open to software engineering internships
Building
LetterLab Pro & FrudgeCare AI
Leading
President · McNeese ACM
Bringing builders together
Grok Bot Build Night · 55 check-ins
Selected work
Built around real problems.
Email workflows, healthcare coordination, and a search rover. Explore the decisions and the work behind each build.
Featured projects
LetterLab.Pro
Physical AI · Hackathon 2026
RubbleEcho
A rover and operator console for prioritizing inspection in a controlled rubble testbed.
Read the RubbleEcho case studyLeadership & community
Bringing builders together.
Organizing hands-on opportunities for students at McNeese to learn, experiment and build together.
September 3, 2026 · McNeese State
Grok Bot Build Night
I organized and hosted a hands-on build night with Grok Bot and Cursor. Fifty-five students checked in, opened their laptops and got to work.
An approved SpaceXAI for Education student build night.
- Students checked in
- 55
- My role
- Organizer & host
Chapter leadership
9 of 10 votes
Elected President of McNeese ACM
· McNeese State University
After managing student projects with McNeese ACM, I was elected chapter president. My focus is giving more students the chance to build together and take ownership of their work.
Read the ACM leadership storyThe gallery
A look inside the evening.
6 event photos. 3 press features. The original invitation.
Grok Bot Build Night · Drew Hall · September 3, 2026
Event photos / Press features / Artwork
In the press
From McNeese to Nepal.
Campus reporting and features back home, with original photographs from each publication.
The Poke Press
· English
Grok Bot Build Night A Success
Campus reporting on the student initiative, the builds and the people who helped make the evening happen.
Photo: Solida Tan / The Poke Press
Read the feature from The Poke Press in a new tab
Routine of Education · RONB Education
· English
A student-led AI build night at McNeese
Routine of Education's feature on bringing students together to build with Grok Bot and Cursor.
Read the feature from Routine of Education · RONB Education in a new tabLokpath
· नेपाली
From Nuwakot to a build night at McNeese
A Nepali-language feature tracing my journey in technology and the story behind the event.
Read the feature from Lokpath in a new tabAbout
Engineering at the intersection of product and people.
I'm Prince Pudasaini, a Computer Science student at McNeese State University. I build practical software products across the full stack: frontend, backend, APIs, and the product design that ties them together. My work focuses on turning rough ideas into usable systems. Email assistants, healthcare coordination prototypes, and data-driven dashboards.
Beyond the code, I lead McNeese's ACM Student Chapter and organized Grok Bot Build Night. I care about helping people start building, and making the systems we build understandable, safe, and useful for the people who actually use them.
Experience & involvement
The work around
the work.
Building products, leading student teams and creating opportunities to learn in public.
2024 – Present
Education
Computer Science Student
McNeese State University
Building foundations across data structures, systems, and software engineering while shipping side projects in parallel.
2026 – Present
Leadership
President · formerly Project Manager
ACM Student Chapter
Leading McNeese's ACM Student Chapter, following project management work on student-led technical initiatives and AskMcNeese.
Read the ACM leadership story ↗September 2026
Leadership
Organizer & host
Grok Bot Build Night
Brought an approved SpaceXAI for Education student build night to McNeese. Coordinated with faculty, university offices, ACM and volunteers; 55 students checked in.
Read the event story ↗2025 – Present
Founder
Founder & Builder
LetterLab Pro
Designing and shipping an email assistant end to end. Product, frontend, backend, OAuth, deployment, and the model layer underneath.
2026
Engineering
Team Lead · Full-Stack · AI Engineer
FrudgeCare AI
Leading a healthcare triage coordination prototype, reviewed by practicing clinicians, with structured outputs and safe fallbacks.
2026
Recognition
Participant
CareDevi · AI Healthcare Hackathon
Built and presented a healthcare-focused tool alongside other student engineering teams across the region.
2026
Recognition
Demo
McNeese Engineering Week
Demonstrated student software work to faculty, students, and visitors from the wider engineering community.
Stack ledger · Real tooling
Technologies I ship with.
Tools I've used in production or in a shipped project, from the first prototype to the live release.
Technology stack
- Tools
- 40
- Categories
- 7
- Focused
- None
Frontend
Type, motion, and state. The surface humans actually touch.
Backend & Runtime
APIs, business logic, and the predictable defaults underneath the UI.
Databases
Where state lives. Auth-aware, schema-honest, and transactional.
AI & ML
Model APIs, structured outputs, and the safety rails around them.
Auth & Integrations
Identity, OAuth, and the third-party surfaces my products live inside.
Cloud & Deploy
From local commit to live URL. Hosting, CI, and the platforms that ship the bits.
SEO & Analytics
How the work gets found. Crawlable surface, attribution, and behavior insight.
Engineering mindset · Explore six architecture and workflow diagrams
Engineering Mindset
How I think as an engineer.
Six principles that show up in how I design systems, work with AI, and ship to production. Each one is paired with a small live demonstration.
- Principles
- 06
- Format
- Live diagrams
- Animation
- In-view loops
- Source
- Production work
01Product
Product-first engineering
I think from user workflow first, then design the system around it.
User journey → system
I figure out how a real person will actually use the thing first, then build the system around that, so the product ends up shaped like the journey it needs to serve.
02Integration
API and integration thinking
I build around real APIs, auth flows, tokens, and production edge cases.
Client ↔ API · token round-trip
Most products are stitched together from other people's services, so I think carefully about how those pieces talk to each other and what should happen when one of them is slow or breaks.
03AI
AI as a tool, not as magic
When I use AI in a product, I design a clear fallback path, structured outputs, and visible system states the user can actually trust.
Primary path + dotted fallback
AI can have an off day, so I always plan a safer fallback the product can switch to, which means users never hit a broken screen when the model gets it wrong.
04Interface
UI systems
I care about layout, spacing, visual hierarchy, and interaction clarity.
Layout grid · hierarchy
A clean, well-organised layout is what turns a working app into one people actually enjoy using, so the look and feel get the same level of care as the code underneath.
05Operations
Deployment reality
I debug real production issues across frontend, backend, OAuth, environment variables, and hosting.
Three-tier deploy pulse
Most real-world bugs only show up once the product is live, so I care just as much about what happens after the deploy button as the work that came before it.
06Narrative
Documentation and storytelling
I explain systems through architecture, case studies, and clear technical writing.
Sketch → annotated architecture
If I can't explain a system in plain words, it probably isn't designed well yet, which is why writing and clear diagrams are part of the engineering for me, not paperwork added at the end.
Contact
Let's build something useful.
Open to software engineering internships and conversations about useful products, student communities and applied AI.
Availability
Looking for full-stack and software engineering internships.
Based in Lake Charles, LA. Remote friendly. References and case studies available on request.