Summary
Pragya Shrestha is an Application Developer with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating backend systems, APIs, and cloud deployments across fintech and healthcare domains. She has led development teams and overseen architecture for JavaEE and Spring Boot projects, designing RESTful APIs and deploying services on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3) while practicing Agile and code review discipline. Her background includes payment rails, ACH and card processing, and white-labeled money-transfer platforms, plus a track record of stepping into UI roles and writing Python stubs to accelerate integration testing. A recent Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Pragya blends mentorship and technical leadership, having trained engineers on coding standards and cloud ops. Based in Milwaukee, she pairs curiosity-driven learning with pragmatic delivery, often surfacing operational improvements that keep systems reliable under real-world payments workloads.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Bachelor's degree Computer Science And Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Computer Science And Information Technology at Tribhuvan University, Trinity International College, Kathmandu
High School Biology General, High School Biology General at Trinity International College
High School, High School at Galaxy Public School
Hindi, English, Nepali