AI, Data & Technology Strategy
Shape transformation priorities through research, readiness assessment, business cases, and roadmaps.
Sabin Timsina
AI Strategy & Transformation
I work across AI and data strategy, product development, and technical delivery, turning emerging technology into practical change.
Professional Focus
Product Strategy & AI Innovation
Move from discovery and user needs to prioritized use cases, requirements, prototypes, and delivery plans.
Data Science & Applied AI
Connect data quality, analytics, machine learning, and agentic AI to practical decisions and workflows.
Technical Leadership & Delivery
Lead cross-functional work across business, engineering, and complex operational environments.
Where Strategy, Product, Data/AI, and Technical Delivery Meet
Education
Technical depth with business context
University of Pennsylvania
Dec 2025
University of Mississippi
May 2020
Harvard Business School Online
Experience
From technical delivery to transformation strategy
2025—Present
Strategy Consulting
TRC Companies, a WSP company · AI, Data & Technology Strategy
Advise clients on AI-powered intelligence, workflow automation, and emerging technology adoption. Shape transformation strategies through research, data and AI readiness, stakeholder engagement, process analysis, roadmaps, and executive recommendations.
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- 50M+ records analyzed across 5–6 asset classes to identify data, process, and AI-readiness priorities.
- 40–50 AI and workflow opportunities assessed and translated into 400+ requirements for a major platform modernization.
2023—2025
Technical Project Lead - Software Implementation / Automation Engineer II
TRC Companies
Led cross-functional automation work across 350+ MW of projects, managing client requirements, project coordination, budgets, resourcing, HMI UI/UX, configuration, testing, and field-to-control-center data flows.
2020—2023
Automation Engineer / OT Software Engineer
Power Relaying Solutions
Delivered operational-technology solutions across 15+ projects, gathering client requirements and configuring and testing automation, HMI, communications, and monitoring systems.
2017—2019
Electrical Engineering Intern
SOAIR
Contributed to applied product R&D across sensors, electronics, software, and signal processing. Automated a roughly week-long MATLAB analysis workflow to approximately five minutes.
Aug 2019—Mar 2020
Project Management Intern
Facilities Management · University of Mississippi
Supported the Facilities Management Committee’s five-year energy-management planning work.
Agentic AI Product
Your Solar Guy
Clear answers from complex residential energy documents.
My role spanned AI & Product strategy, Hands-on AI building, and Energy & Utility domain expertise.
Took Your Solar Guy from zero to one, from 15–20 user conversations to a deployed agentic AI MVP in approximately one month. Led discovery and defined the product direction, requirements, architecture, roadmap, and success measures through launch.
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Projects
Recent work and earlier experiments
Recent AI, data & software projects
Applied AI · 2025
Human Emotion Detector
Led the integration of visual and audio models into a unified emotion-recognition experience while coordinating milestones and team communication.
Digital product · 2024
Expedia-Meets-Yelp
Owned key application and data work for a travel product, shaped user flows, and helped coordinate delivery across the team.
Predictive analytics · 2024
Airbnb Demand Predictor
Developed a 10-city availability-prediction project combining exploratory analysis, customer sentiment, and time-series forecasting.
Earlier / undergraduate projects
SpongeBob Mood Detector
Audiovisual interaction that interpreted a user’s stated mood and displayed a matching physical character image.
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Obstacle-Avoiding Robot
Robot developed through the Ole Miss Robotics Club to detect and navigate around obstacles.
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Smartphone-Controlled Robot
Robot controlled from a smartphone for a student outreach demonstration.
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Smart Thermometer
Interactive engineering-fair prototype that displayed a user’s body temperature.
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Applied research and professional development
Ultrasonic gait measurement
Presented and published research on using in-air Doppler ultrasound to measure heel-contact and toe-off timing. The work grew from SOAIR R&D and became an honors thesis.
Independent writing
AI strategy perspectives
Independent research and perspectives on AI strategy, agentic systems, governance, and transformation.View writing on LinkedInCommunity
Leadership and volunteering
2025 · Volunteer product & data support
CivicTech DC / ElectrifyDC
Supported feature prioritization, Kanban management, and roadmap planning; developed a fuzzy-matching validation algorithm for contractor and vendor data.
Leadership, mentoring & outreach
Ole Miss Robotics Club
President, founding secretary, and mentor; led high-school outreach with Ole Miss IEEE, organized hands-on robotics workshops, and separately volunteered with FIRST Robotics.
Student technical leadership
IEEE at the University of Mississippi
Served as president and organized soldering, Python-for-hardware, and collaborative robotics workshops.Awards & Honors
Recognition and membership
2020
Outstanding Senior Leadership Award
School of Engineering, University of Mississippi2016
Academic Excellence Award
University of Mississippi2015
National Robotics Competition Winner
Yantra 4.0Honor societies & membership: Phi Kappa Phi · Tau Beta Pi · Lambda Sigma · Entrepreneurship Club
Certifications
Professional development at a glance