Bishal Sapkota
Lead Software Engineer at Outback Yak
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBishal 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.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
English, Nepali, French
Stackoverflow
807reputation
53kreached
35answers
6questions
Github Skills (23)
raml9
backend8
api-documentation8
specification7
pointer6
nodejs6
php6
amazon-s36
amazon-web-services6
python6
django6
npm6
boto6
javascript5
geojson4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bishalspkt/share-my-desk
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
A nodejs backend for share my desk apps
Contributions:71 commits, 36 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 7 months
backend-nodejsdeskjavascriptexpressbackend
bishalspkt/gatsby-poc
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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