Ashesh Nepal

I’m a UCLA graduate student in data science, interested in using software, AI, and data to solve complex, high-impact problems in the real world. Previously, I spent three years building software at the Metropolitan Council, a regional public agency serving more than three million people across the seven-county Twin Cities region. My work covered APIs, system integrations, real-time transit data, and the modernization of legacy applications.

Portrait of Ashesh Nepal

Experience

  1. Nov 2025 — Sept 2026

    Associate Software Engineer

    Metropolitan Council

    St. Paul, Minnesota

  2. May 2025 — Nov 2025

    Application Developer 1

    Metropolitan Council

    St. Paul, Minnesota

  3. May 2023 — May 2025

    Application Integration Intern

    Metropolitan Council

    St. Paul, Minnesota

  4. Jan 2025 — May 2025

    Teaching Assistant, Data Structures & Algorithms

    St. Cloud State University

    St. Cloud, Minnesota

Selected projects

Things I’ve built and contributed to.

Your1000Resume application

Creator · Production SaaS

Your1000Resume

An AI-powered resume customization platform built as a multi-service system. LLM-assisted data transformation and Typst turn resumes into tailored, production-ready PDFs.

Next.js · .NET · FastAPI · Typst

Presentation of the Z8ter Python web framework

Creator · 200+ package downloads

Z8ter

An open-source Python web framework that simplifies UI rendering with a minimal API. Downloaded more than 200 times on PyPI.

Python · Web framework · Open source

Genius Deck study tool

Co-author · MICS 2024

Genius Deck

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

LLM · AI · Research paper

Education

Expected Sept 2027

University of California, Los Angeles

Master of Engineering in Data Science

Los Angeles, California

Neural Networks & Deep Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Product Management

May 2025

St. Cloud State University

B.S. in Computer Science

St. Cloud, Minnesota

Scholarships

  • F. Glen Hamilton Scholarship
  • Mathematics & Statistics / Computer Science Scholarship
  • Monte Johnson Computer Science Scholarship
Ashesh Nepal at his St. Cloud State University graduation ceremony
Commencement, St. Cloud State University · May 2025

What I work on

Applications & APIs

Enterprise backend services and REST APIs with C#, .NET, Python, and FastAPI.

Cloud integrations

Azure Functions, Service Bus, API Management, and infrastructure automation.

Data & AI

Data pipelines, machine learning, and practical LLM integrations.

Automation & developer tools

Internal tools that remove repetitive engineering work.

Highlights

First-place team at Huskies Hack x Immersion Data Solutions
Huskies Hack × IDS1st place
Second-place team at the AspenTech x SCSU Hackathon
AspenTech × SCSU2nd place
SCSU team at the ICPC Regional Programming Contest
ICPC RegionalSCSU programming team

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