Ashesh Nepal
Building reliable APIs, data integrations, and tooling for scalable systems.
Current Role
Associate Software Engineer
Primary Stack
.NET, Azure, C#
Focus
APIs, integrations, tooling
Backend and integration engineer
Based in Minnesota, focused on systems that stay maintainable as teams and workloads grow.
Experience
Associate Software Engineer
Metropolitan Council · St Paul, MN
Designing and shipping minimal APIs, Azure Service Bus integrations, and internal developer tooling used across engineering teams.
Application Developer 1
Metropolitan Council · St Paul, MN
Built core service layers and cloud integrations that connected legacy systems to modern API infrastructure.
Application Integration Intern
Metropolitan Council · St Paul, MN
Developed API integrations and automated data pipelines, contributing to the platform that the team still builds on today.
Featured Projects
Genius Deck
Presented at MICS 2024 · Co-Author
LLM-powered study tool that extracts lecture content and generates study materials through semantic modeling. Research paper presented at MICS 2024.
What I Work On
APIs & Backend Systems
Designing and shipping minimal APIs, service layers, and backend architectures in C# and .NET.
Cloud & Distributed Systems
Building integrations across Azure services — Service Bus, Functions, API Management — for production workloads.
Developer Tooling & DX
Creating internal tools, CLI utilities, and frameworks that reduce friction and help developers ship faster.
Scalable Internal Platforms
Architecting platform-level services and automation that support teams across an organization.
Highlights
3x
Hackathon Wins
200+
PyPI Downloads
1
Research Paper
2x
Programming Contests
1st Place — Huskies Hack x IDS
2nd Place — AspenTech x SCSU
ICPC Regional — SCSU Team