About

I’m a software engineer transitioning into data science, currently completing a Master’s in Data Science at Harvard Extension School (expected 2026).

Before the master’s I spent five years as a software developer at OfficeSpace Software, building and shipping features for a hybrid-workplace SaaS platform serving ~700 enterprise clients and 2 million users. I worked across the full stack — backend APIs (Ruby on Rails), frontend SPAs (React, Pixi.js), and cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure).

My current work focuses on:

• Computer vision — scene graph generation, object detection (YOLO), image captioning
• LLMs & NLP — parameter-efficient fine-tuning (QLoRA/LoRA), RAG, benchmark evaluation
• Statistical modeling — regression, hypothesis testing, model diagnostics in R and Python

I grew up in Nepal, studied physics at Amherst College, and have lived in Boston for the past several years. I’m fluent in English and Nepali, and conversational in Spanish.

Outside of work I maintain a homelab (Proxmox, self-hosted services, GPS NTP server, ESP32 IoT), contribute to open-source tools I use daily (Fish shell, Neovim), and spend time cooking and hiking.

Contact: hello@ndthp.com GitHub: github.com/nthapaliya