PRAYOGSALA
Finding a different kind of system under the lush, green horizon of Nepal.
THE LAZY ENGINEER
I spent most of my life at a keyboard. Designing web backends, architecting database systems, and building digital infrastructures. It was a grind I knew well.
My father, **Kishor Kumar Wagle**, worked his entire life to ensure I had that education. He died young—I was only 24 at the time. I was left with a piece of paper and a landscape I had almost forgotten.
Ultimately, I decided to leave the computer grind behind. Not because I hated technology, but because I wanted to see it breathe. I wanted to apply the logic of engineering to the living, green horizontal of the Inner Terai.
LEARNING THE SOIL
I'm currently "completely clueless."
The women in my family—my Mom and Grandmom—are the actual architects here. They know the rhythm of the crops and the language of the rain. I'm just an engineer following their lead, trying to translate their wisdom into sensors and data.
CURRENT TECH STACK
- ✦ ESP32 / ARDUINO
- ✦ NODE-RED
- ✦ NEXT.JS / SUPABASE
- ✦ LORA / SENSORS
"Still figuring out which wire goes to which plant."
THE LOCATION
Prayogsala isn't in some remote mountain peak. We are in the **Inner Terai**. It’s a wonderful, deeply green place that stays lush throughout the year.
It gets up to 40 degrees in the heavy summer, and in the winter, the sky is perpetually covered by a grey blanket of clouds. It feels much colder than the 9-12 degrees on the thermometer. But it's home.
Welcome to the laboratory.