Sailesh Dhungana Email & Phone Number

United States

• Worked with 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 to create a portal through which people inside the company could interact with Generative AI models from various providers.• Spun up an open source model in AWS that was not natively provided by AWS at the time.• Worked on the NextJS frontend to provide an interface for users to interact with the models.• Helped create plugins with regards to pdf and csv documents by working on both frontend and backend.• Worked on important features such as retry logic and multiple iterations to get to the answer.• Added a few popular models into the system.• Worked on a python software development kit (sdk) for the software engineers to interact to the model programatically.• Contributed in making the portal production ready with 100% test coverage on the sdk and the API able to meet millions of requests per day.• Implemented the designs into the NextJS website: https://thedatachefs.com• Worked on a project to create question answering agent using knowledge graphs from baseball related data by turning such data into RDFs.

United States

• Provided data engineering and data science support for 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 (𝐈𝐅𝐑𝐂) on the largest cash-assistance program in the world (ESSN) which supports refugees (mostly Syrian) in Turkey.• Designed and implemented a data pipeline to take data from different sources to their database on regular intervals. Created a well-managed environment for the pipeline with logging and error handling using Python, Apache Airflow and Docker.• Contributed significantly to the assessment of the most vulnerable and least vulnerable sections ofthe refugee population. Performed data analysis, created machine learning models and implemented data transformations to create vulnerability ranking with which donors could make educated decisions regarding budgetary constraints.

United States

• 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐲, 𝐔𝐒𝐀: • Worked on improving backend technology of a US enterprise level company that provided leadership trainings to managers of big companies. • Upgraded Django from 2.7 to 3.2.12 (LTS) and Python to 3.8.10, along with other libraries • Upgraded all environments where the site was implemented using multiple technologies like Docker, poetry, pyenv, etc.• 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐈𝐃𝐋𝐏, 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐚: • Built a website with mostly static content and some backend features targeting international investors looking to invest in Saudi Arabia. • Used Python, Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and PostgreSQL with Docker to build the site and deployed the site on the client's server. • Successfully complied with pixel-perfect design requirements. • Created backend features like news scraping with display of scraped news and a customized calendar display of events added through Django admin.• 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐔𝐒𝐀: • Built the backend of a US B2B startup opening bank accounts by fulfilling the legal requirements on the website using Python and Django. • Started the Python and Django project from scratch using Docker. • Designed a robust and stable database structure for Postgres and modified it with migrations when the requirements changed. • Created API endpoints for the React frontend using clear, concise and non-repetitive code. • Created webhooks and integrated the app with a signature service called DocuSign. • Integrated the app with a bank's account opening API. • Made UI/UX components on the front using React.

Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal

• Worked in web development, data engineering and data science for 𝐠𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡, 𝐔𝐒𝐀• Worked on numerous features for the web application with the MERN (Mongo, Express, React, Node) stack including complex features like clinical rules engine.• Designed and implemented a data pipeline to take data from variety of sources such as mobile app (using Firebase) and the website.• Performed data analysis and data visualizations on the resultant data in the data warehouse using python, SQL and PowerBI

• Worked as a Solution Architect and Manager for an IoT startup: 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫, 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐞• Facilitated client acquisition, requirement gathering and project development phases.• Designed hardware and software architecture for an IOT dashboard project for a Singaporean company.• Hired a team and managed them to meet the tight deadline of launch.• Involved in training and debugging under tight deadline using the tech stack: Python, Django, JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, RabbitMQ, AWS.

Kathmandu, Nepal

• Became the founding member of the machine learning team for Deerwalk Inc., USA. The company was later acquired by Cedar Gate, USA.• Created a Machine Learning model for prediction in the US health care informatics space using Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn.

Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal

• Worked with Deep Learning and Python libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, Tensorflow and Keras.• Created a Machine Learning model for predicting crop yields, aiming to work on financial agents to use the prediction for lending purposes basing the model on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and using satellite images from NASA and European Space Agency

New York, United States

• Worked with Python, Django, jQuery, HTML and CSS to create a B2C website that allowed users to submit their rankings on anything and everything.• Created the website's authentication system along with its feed.• Worked on numerous other features and bugs.• Worked on app development using Ionic, Cordova, AngularJS.

New York, United States

• Refactored existing code by dividing into individual apps with some new ones and made absolute URLs for different pages• Created a mechanism to use Amazon's Mechanical Turk for links suggested in the website• Used some APIs to verify links and get rid of malware containing user-suggested links• Created a flagging method• Pushed logs from Django as well as native Python to Logstash• Allowed users to connect to different social networking sites and shortened urls for sharing• Made a maintenance mode app which would allow the site to go on a maintenance mode for a certain period of time• Created a Django admin page for testing effectiveness of different NLP algorithms• Created profile pages with some data from social-networking sites with privacy settings for display of profile pages• Helped other colleagues with using Git and other aspect of development including python, django, south migrations and mysql.

Kathmandu, Nepal

• Assisted in creation of a web-crawling tool to grab data for a web-based application by coding in Java.

Kathmandu, Nepal

• Created some features like messaging system and fixed numerous bugs while working with Grails framework with Groovy.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Activities and Societies: Princeton Buddhist Meditation Group, TerraceWalter C. Sauer '28 Prize for Outstanding Thesis

Master Of Science - Ms, Online Master'S In Science (Computer Science)

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