Summary
Bishal Sapkota is a Lead Software Engineer based in Melbourne with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, AI-driven systems and leading cross-functional teams. He architects and ships scalable microservices and GenAI solutions—recently driving a greenfield e-learning platform and a virtual patient interface using fine-tuned LLMs, Kubernetes, GCP, and Pulumi. Bishal has a pragmatic cost-optimization streak, having cut cloud compute costs by 97% through an AWS-to-GCP migration and autoscaling to zero. He blends engineering leadership with teaching, creating the course "Agentic AI for Software Engineers" and speaking on open-weights AI, reflecting a knack for demystifying emerging tech. Comfortable from infra to frontend, his toolkit spans Go, Node.js, Cloud Run, ChromaDB RAG patterns and agentic AI, and he prioritizes solutions that solve real user problems. As a founder and mentor, he balances product vision with repeatable delivery practices and strong security/compliance awareness from ISO27001/GDPR work.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
English, Nepali, French