Summary
Prasanna Koirala is a Research Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, ML-enabled research pipelines and full-stack web applications for academic and government projects. Based in the Nashville area, he has led technical efforts at Vanderbilt and acted as a technical lead for NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition program, designing architectures and cloud pipelines to process large Earth science datasets. He combines hands-on development (React, Node, cloud CDK, Docker) with machine learning model integration and automation to reduce manual work in research workflows. Previously he developed real-time network-log processing systems and taught web and Python technologies, demonstrating both production delivery and mentorship skills. Notably, he has experience bringing geospatial tools and BERT-style models into browser-based labeling and satellite recommendation systems, bridging research needs to practical, deployable software.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Central Campus Pulchowk, Institute of Engineering, Nepal