Education

MS in Computer Science Aug 2024 – May 2026
Wichita State University, Wichita, KS · GPA: 4.0
BE in Computer Engineering Nov 2017 – Mar 2022
IOE Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal · GPA: 3.7

Skills

Programming Languages
Python Java C# C/C++ Rust HTML CSS JavaScript Shell Scripting
Data Infrastructure
MongoDB SQL PostgreSQL Apache Kafka Redis
Libraries & Frameworks
.NET Django FastAPI ReactJS Flask Android Appium RabbitMQ
Cloud & DevOps
AWS (EC2, Lambda, EKS, Bedrock) Azure (AKS, DevOps) GCP Docker Kubernetes Terraform ArgoCD
AI & LLMs
Vertex AI TensorFlow PyTorch LLM Finetuning

Experience

Graduate Research Assistant Aug 2024 – Present
Wichita State University · Wichita, KS
  • Developed an automated Android privacy policy compliance tool using Appium and Gemini 2.5 Flash to detect and classify unrejectable privacy policies across 500+ apps into 5 compliance categories.
  • Fine-tuned Gemini on Google Cloud for UI button ranking and integrated two LLM models to reduce manual audit time by 35%.
  • Integrated a RAG pipeline grounding Gemini responses with scraped privacy policy documents from Google Play, reducing hallucination in compliance classification across dynamically retrieved app contexts.
Software Engineer Jul 2022 – Jun 2024
Fidenz Technologies Pte Ltd · Singapore
  • Built a real-time Nordic vessel telemetry platform by authoring custom Azure IoT Hub and MQTT Kafka connectors to stream live ship sensor data through Strimzi Kafka into MongoDB Atlas on AKS.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and application delivery using Docker, Terraform, and ArgoCD via GitOps pipeline, maintaining 99.9% uptime across mission-critical Nordic shipping infrastructure.
  • Reduced MongoDB query latency by 20% via indexing and schema redesign across 10,000 daily vessel records and engineered Kafka Streams pipelines for per-ship timeseries data routing.
  • Developed a ship operations portal with ReactJS, ReduxJS, and Google Maps API for live vessel tracking, featuring OIDC role-based auth and sensor data tables backed by ASP.NET Core API.
  • Reduced sync latency by 30% with a real-time database sync platform deployed on Amazon EKS, enabling bi-directional sync across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB via Debezium CDC connectors.
  • Deployed Grafana dashboards with Prometheus JMX metrics, configured Redis for traffic data deduplication, and configured Kubernetes HPA to autoscale Kafka cluster from 3 to 40 brokers under peak load.
  • Mentored junior engineers through onboarding and enforced rigorous code review standards, improving codebase robustness and scalability across distributed microservices.
Support and Solutions Engineer Intern Jan 2022 – May 2022
LogPoint Inc. · Lalitpur, Nepal
  • Administered Linux servers and resolved performance bottlenecks in Python and Java backend services, streamlining incident response workflows for enterprise SIEM deployments.
  • Managed distributed log handling pipelines by debugging production-level distributed services, analyzing enterprise support issues, and documenting SIEM configurations for large-scale security log ingestion.
AI Research Assistant Aug 2021 – Mar 2022
NAAMII · Lalitpur, Nepal
  • Developed semi-supervised mBERT and MuRIL models to classify COVID-19 Nepali tweets into 8 discourse categories across 10,000+ samples, with findings published at SMM4H 2022 Workshop.
  • Deployed a production-ready COVID-19 discourse analysis dashboard with FastAPI backend and React/TypeScript frontend.

Projects

Android Unrejectable Policy (UP) Detector

Google Vertex AI, Python, Appium · Aug 2024 – May 2025
  • Built an automated dynamic analysis tool integrating LLM with Appium-driven UI traversal to detect and analyze policy-related screens in Android apps.

Publications

COVID-19-related Nepali Tweets Classification in a Low Resource Setting

Rabin Adhikari, Safal Thapaliya, Nirajan Basnet, Samip Poudel, Aman Shakya, Bishesh Khanal
Seventh Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health Applications · 2022

Honors

  • Ranked 155 (top 1%) out of 18,000+ students in Nepal government's national IOE engineering entrance exam.