📋 Bishal Sapkota

• Designed and built a virtual patient interface to be used as a pedagogical tool for medical training using fine-tuned gpt-3.5-turbo and equivalent LLMs. The solution was built using a React frontend, a Koa/Typescript REST API layer, LLM infrastructure from OpenAI, IBM, and , Anyscale. The solution was deployed to Google Cloud using Pulumi.
• Helped achieve a reduction of cloud compute costs by 97%, migrating from AWS to GCP, levegaging Cloud Run's autoscale to 0.
• Built a retrieval augmented generation(RAG) powered solution using OpenAI and ChromaDB.
• Built a CI/CD pipeline using Github actions for robust repeatable releases using Pulumi to manage infrastructure as code.

Technologies: Typescript, Koa, Node.js, OpenAI GPT3.5, Anyscale, IBM Watson, Langchain, ChromaDB, RAG, Pulumi, GCP Cloud Run.

• Recruit and onboard Senior Engineers to the team.
• Lead the technical solution design and implementation of Blockbase using vendor agnostic technologies like Kubernetes, Kong, Ory Hydra, OPA, and a microservices approach.
• Identify and plan technical aspects in achieving ISO27001 and GDPR certification.
• Set up processes to build, test, and deploy Blockbase using Agile methodology. This involves defining standards, setting up tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and Observability platform to monitor application performance.
• Implemented highly scalable microservices for aerial image processing, image classification, and other workloads in Node.js and GoLang.

Technologies: GoLang, Typescript, Node.Js, Python, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform(GCP), Kong API Gateway, Ory Hydra(oAuth2.0), Open Policy Agent, Microservices.

• Built a frontend to operationalize an image classification ML model built by partner research institution.
• Built tooling in python to process large GeoTIFF aerial imagery through raster image based ML pipelines
• Built a web map tile server to overlay tiles of high-resolution aerial imagery in a mapping application

Technologies: GoLang, Typescript, Node.Js, Python, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform(GCP), Kong API Gateway, Ory Hydra(oAuth2.0), Open Policy Agent, Microservices.

• Helped set up the application development platform, CI/CD pipeline with functional and non-functional checks, and development standards for the agile release train with 4 scrum teams.
• Augmented the CI/CD pipeline with end-to-end automated tests using BDD style feature files.
• Defined the Node.js development standards and created templates using yeoman to make it easier for developers to spin up new microservices automatically.
• Built several microservices using Node.js to interface with external SaaS solutions, and MongoDB.

Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, Yeoman, Contentful, MongoDB, Docker Swarm, GitLab CI/CD,, Python, Behave, Docker

• Develop Node.js APls for DeakinScout, an award-winning indoor wayfinding solution for kiosks, and mobile.
• Automate repetitive business processes by building an analytics dashboard in Angular to help Deakin's internal customers self-serve their location feed telemetry requests.
• Maintain and improve DeakinScout CI/CD pipeline in Bamboo

Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, SQL Server, MongoDB, Bamboo CI/CD, Docker, Angular, Ionic, GeoJSON, Leaflet, Cisco CMX