Prakash Poudel Sharma

Product manager, founder, builder.

I'm an independent product manager, founder, and software builder based in Kathmandu. I help teams make product decisions and adopt agentic software development, drawing on over a decade of building software. I write about product thinking, engineering with AI, and hands-on experiments.

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Prakash Poudel Sharma
Over a decade buildingIndependent PM & consultant

The journey

Engineer, founder, now independent.

Over a decade building software. Selected chapters from engineering, founding, and consulting.

  1. Software Engineer

    Leapfrog Technologyยท2014 โ€” 2017

    Three years across Rails, React, and React Native. Trainee โ†’ Technical Project Manager.

  2. Founder

    Truemarkยท2017 โ€” 2025

    Founded and ran a product engineering studio for eight years. Wound it down to focus on a single product team.

  3. Contract Software Engineer

    Luthor (YC F24)ยทPrevious engagement

    Worked with Luthor as an independent contract software engineer.

  4. Product manager & consultant

    Now

    IndependentยทNow

    Freelance product management, codebase readiness audits, software factory setup, and agentic coding adoption.

Now

What I'm focused on this season.

Updated regularly ยท inspired by nownownow

Parallel agent coding

OpenSpec for spec-before-code, Beads as the local task graph, git worktrees for isolation. The toolkit I wish I had.

Updated May 2026

Hermes for release notes

Wiring a Hermes agent to draft release notes from commits and PRs. Cron-scheduled, model-agnostic, ~$5 of infra.

Updated May 2026

New workshop ยท free, self-paced

Stop repeating yourself to your agent.

A hands-on workshop that turns the four-layer agent-ready stack into muscle memory: one prompt, one hook, one subagent, one skill, against a planted bug in a starter repo.

Hook

Block the diff before the agent finishes.

Subagent

Audit the rest of the repo for siblings.

Skill

Name the workflow so you can call it.

Open the workshop โ†’6 chapters ยท ~100 minutes
Prompts ยท Hooks ยท Subagents ยท Skills

Listen

Latest essay, in your ears.

Audio companions to selected essays. Generated, then loudness-normalized and published as a GitHub release.

Podcast15:02Read the essay โ†’

The Subagent I Didn't Need

A confession about a subagent I wrote, ran for a month, and quietly deleted โ€” and the broader taxonomy of agent-side artifacts that helped me see why. Five things live in a mature agent-ready repo, and they are not interchangeable. A field guide to when not to delegate.

Working notes

What people say after shipping together.

A few field notes from clients and peers who worked with me across product, engineering, and company-building.

Prakash and the Truemark team stand above every engineering team I've worked with over the last 25 years. If you can partner with Prakash, you will not regret it.

Brent Holland
Brent HollandClient - Intelliante.com

I have seen him progress from Trainee to Technical Project Manager. He is an excellent software developer, very enthusiastic, a quick learner, and someone with excellent problem solving skills.

Ojash Dahal
Ojash DahalSoftware Engineer & Photography Enthusiast

Prakash is really easy to work with, and has a good understanding of react-native and javascript. I hope to work with him again one day.

Anton Huges
Anton HugesOwner - Price Insight

Prakash and the Truemark team stand above every engineering team I've worked with over the last 25 years. If you can partner with Prakash, you will not regret it.

Brent Holland
Brent HollandClient - Intelliante.com

I have seen him progress from Trainee to Technical Project Manager. He is an excellent software developer, very enthusiastic, a quick learner, and someone with excellent problem solving skills.

Ojash Dahal
Ojash DahalSoftware Engineer & Photography Enthusiast

Prakash is really easy to work with, and has a good understanding of react-native and javascript. I hope to work with him again one day.

Anton Huges
Anton HugesOwner - Price Insight
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