Software Engineer

Ashesh Nepal

Focused on building reliable APIs, cloud integrations, and developer platforms. I design systems that scale and tooling that makes teams faster.

Latest Writing

Using AI Coding Tools as a Junior Engineer

February 16, 2026

How I went from skepticism to building entire projects with coding agents — and what I learned about letting go of the 'cheating' mindset.

AICareerDeveloper ToolsOpinion6 min read

Ashesh Nepal — Software Engineer Building APIs and Cloud Systems

June 15, 2025

A look at who I am, how I got into software engineering, and what to expect from this blog.

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Experience

Associate Software Engineer

Metropolitan Council · St Paul, MN

Nov 2025 — Present

Designing and shipping minimal APIs, Azure Service Bus integrations, and internal developer tooling used across engineering teams.

C#.NETAzureAPI Design

Application Developer 1

Metropolitan Council · St Paul, MN

May 2025 — Nov 2025

Built core service layers and cloud integrations that connected legacy systems to modern API infrastructure.

.NET CoreAzureService Integration

Application Integration Intern

Metropolitan Council · St Paul, MN

May 2023 — May 2025

Developed API integrations and automated data pipelines, contributing to the platform that the team still builds on today.

C#IntegrationAzure Functions

Featured Projects

Z8ter

Creator

200+ PyPI downloads

Python web framework adopted by 200+ developers on PyPI. Simplifies UI rendering with a minimal API surface — presented at a university tech showcase and refined through community feedback.

PythonWeb FrameworkOpen Source

Genius Deck

Co-Author

Published at MICS 2024

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

LLMAIResearch Paper

Your1000Resume

Developer

Production SaaS

ATS-optimized resume builder that tailors resumes to specific job descriptions. Turns raw experience into interview-ready applications with AI-driven formatting.

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Highlights

Hackathon Wins

200+

PyPI Downloads

Research Paper

Programming Contests

1st place at Huskies Hack x Immersion Data Solutions

1st Place — Huskies Hack x IDS

2nd Place — AspenTech x SCSU

ICPC Regional Programming Contest team at SCSU

ICPC Regional — SCSU Team

What I Work On

APIs & Backend Systems

Designing and shipping minimal APIs, service layers, and backend architectures in C# and .NET.

Cloud & Distributed Systems

Building integrations across Azure services — Service Bus, Functions, API Management — for production workloads.

Developer Tooling & DX

Creating internal tools, CLI utilities, and frameworks that reduce friction and help developers ship faster.

Scalable Internal Platforms

Architecting platform-level services and automation that support teams across an organization.