Software engineer

Ashesh Nepal

Building reliable APIs, cloud integrations, and automation.

Ashesh Nepal

UCLA

MEng in Data Science

Expected 2027

Experience

  1. Associate Software Engineer

    Metropolitan Council · St. Paul, Minnesota

    Nov 2025 — Present

  2. Application Developer 1

    Metropolitan Council · St. Paul, Minnesota

    May 2025 — Nov 2025

  3. Application Integration Intern

    Metropolitan Council · St. Paul, Minnesota

    May 2023 — May 2025

  4. Teaching Assistant, Data Structures & Algorithms

    St. Cloud State University · St. Cloud, Minnesota

    Jan 2025 — May 2025

Projects

Your1000Resume

Your1000Resume

Production SaaS · Creator

AI-powered resume customization platform built as a multi-service system. Uses LLM-assisted data transformation and Typst to generate tailored, production-ready PDFs.

Next.js.NETFastAPITypst
Z8ter

Z8ter

200+ package downloads · Creator

Python-based web development framework that simplifies UI rendering behind a minimal API surface, with 200+ package downloads on PyPI.

PythonWeb FrameworkOpen Source
Genius Deck

Genius Deck

Presented at MICS 2024 · Co-Author

LLM-powered study tool that extracts lecture content and generates study materials through semantic modeling. Research paper presented at MICS 2024.

LLMAIResearch Paper
Research paper presented at MICS 2024

What I Work On

Enterprise Applications & APIs

Backend services and REST APIs with C#, .NET, Python, and FastAPI.

Cloud Integrations

Azure Functions, Service Bus, API Management, and infrastructure automation.

Data & AI

Data pipelines, machine learning, and LLM integrations.

Automation & Developer Tools

Internal tools that remove repetitive engineering work.

Technical Skills

Languages & Frameworks

PythonSQLC#.NETPyTorchFastAPINext.jsJavaScript / TypeScript

Cloud & DevOps

Microsoft AzureAzure FunctionsAPI ManagementGitHub ActionsTerraformDocker

Data, AI & Systems

SQL ServerPostgreSQLData PipelinesREST APIsModel Context ProtocolMachine LearningLLM IntegrationDistributed SystemsMicroservices

Highlights

1st place at Huskies Hack x Immersion Data Solutions

1st Place — Huskies Hack x IDS

2nd place at AspenTech x SCSU Hackathon

2nd Place — AspenTech x SCSU

ICPC Regional Programming Contest team at SCSU

ICPC Regional — SCSU Team

Latest Writing

Automating Document Generation with Typst

March 20, 2026

How I used Typst, structured input data, and a lightweight build pipeline to generate repeatable PDFs without the usual manual formatting overhead.

TypstAutomationDocumentsDeveloper ToolingWorkflow8 min read
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