Lead engineer building resilient backends, AI-native products and cloud platforms that grow from first MVP to high-concurrency scale.
Lead Engineer | Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Focused)
As a Tech Lead and Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Focused) with 7+ years of experience architecting scalable systems, I drive the complete lifecycle from requirement gathering and MVP development to cloud deployment and monitoring. Communicating directly with clients, I build complex software solutions and AI-based systems. Backed by AI/ML research, I integrate AI capabilities, build AI-native products, and leverage AI-assisted coding. I am skilled in leading teams, mentoring, and applying deep expertise across Backend, Native Android, and DevOps to drive business growth. I am a pragmatic builder and debugger who approaches software development from a strict systems engineering perspective. By combining strong coding fundamentals with a highly iterative mindset, I build quickly, diagnose issues efficiently, and continuously refine architectures to scale seamlessly from initial single region deployments to high concurrency, multi sharded environments.
Architecting, designing, and delivering end-to-end scalable solutions across web, mobile, and cloud environments while managing the full product lifecycle from initial requirements to system monitoring.
Building scalable APIs and managing complex data architectures with Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
Executing end-to-end system deployment, continuous monitoring, containerization, and CI/CD pipeline automation utilizing AWS, Docker, Nginx, and GitHub Actions.
Leveraging university research experience to build AI-native products, integrate intelligent data-driven models into production systems, and accelerate workflows using AI-assisted coding.
Crafting dynamic, responsive, and user-centric interfaces utilizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Next.js.
Developing high-performance, robust mobile applications using Java, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, KMM, and KMP.
Served as a Research Assistant at Design Lab, Kathmandu University, specializing in Human Gait Analysis. Authored published papers and applied Machine Learning (ML) and Computer Vision (CV) techniques to advance data-driven research.
Scroll down to explore case studies and systems engineered across web, mobile, and AI.
A production-grade portfolio built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and structured for a future Django backend integration.
A robust backend service featuring JWT authentication, role-based access control, and comprehensive test coverage.
A full-featured e-commerce solution with Stripe payment integration, real-time inventory tracking, and an admin dashboard.
A scalable chat application featuring WebSocket connections, online status indicators, and message history.
A creative tool allowing users to generate artwork from text prompts using OpenAI's DALL-E 3 API.
A comprehensive dashboard for SaaS companies to track user engagement, MRR, and churn rates.
07/01/2024 - Current
TheGemsTech
Architected and led scalable backend and application systems across fintech, ride-sharing, travel, and AI platforms, supporting multi-product architecture with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-ready deployments.
17/05/2021 - Current
Freelancer.com
Developed AI/ML systems including recommendation engines and generative AI applications, improving personalization quality and response relevance through NLP and machine learning pipelines.
08/08/2023 - 08/12/2024
Department of Biomedical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad
Designed and validated BLE-enabled FSR smart insoles achieving real-time gait data acquisition with improved signal reliability and experimental accuracy for clinical research systems.
02/01/2022 - 02/01/2024
Kathmandu University
Built computer vision gait analysis system using MediaPipe pose estimation and sensor fusion, improving movement classification robustness and real-time inference performance.
2024, September
Authors: Pant, U., Baral, S., Gupta, A., & Shrestha, P. L.
Published in: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
2023, August
Authors: Bhattarai, A., Gupta, A., Kafle, A., Sapkota, P., Chitrakar, S., Dahlhaug, O. G., & Pradhan, S.
Published in: International conference on the Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network (Springer Nature)
2023, March
Authors: Gupta, A., Shrestha, P. L., Thapa, B., Silwal, R., & Shrestha, R.
Published in: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
I occasionally write about software engineering, system design, and mobile development on Medium.
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