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Hi, I’m Pratigya.
I build APIs

Software engineer from Pokhara, Nepal. I turn ideas into backends and web apps that hold up, and I research how machines read Nepali.

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Selected work

Aspect-Based Nepali Political Sentiment Analysis

What do people in Nepal feel about each political topic? I compared BiLSTM, mBERT, XLM-RoBERTa and NepBERTa on 15,669 annotated YouTube comments from the 2026 election.

  • Python
  • NLP
  • Transformers

Research project · Repository link not available yet

Nepali Sparsa

A MERN e-commerce app with product listings, a shopping cart and user accounts.

  • MongoDB
  • Express
  • React
  • Node.js
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Food Snap

A mobile app that analyzes food and returns its nutritional information.

  • Flutter
  • FastAPI
  • ML
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Book Inventory System

A web app to manage book collections, with full create, read, update and delete.

  • MERN
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News API

A Node.js backend that fetches news articles and serves them through REST APIs.

  • Node.js
  • REST
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CabAvenue

A GPS-based taxi booking system, designed and built with a team.

  • Team project

Swift Bluebook Renew

A web platform that simplifies bluebook renewal and cuts waiting time.

  • Web app

More code on GitHub.

How I build

InterfaceReact, HTML, CSS, Figma
ServiceNode.js, Express.js, REST APIs
DataMongoDB, SQL, Prisma
IntelligencePython, Colab, Jupyter, transformer models
Published, 2026 Use of Pirated Software in the Government Sector: An Empirical Study of Microsoft Windows and Office Suite in Local Governments of Nepal Journal of Engineering Issues and Solutions, Vol. 5, No. 2. Read the published article

Path so far

  1. Finished higher secondary school at Sai Global Academy
  2. Graduated in Software Engineering at Gandaki College of Engineering and Science
  3. Joined Imark Digital as a Node.js developer intern
  4. Project management associate intern at Excellerate
  5. Started my MSc in Communication and Knowledge Engineering and began tutoring at Informatics College
  6. Volunteered at TEDx and published my first journal article

Let’s build something together.

I’m looking for a developer role building backend and MERN applications.

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