Prateek Shrestha
Research Engineer at National Laboratory of the Rockies
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPrateek Shrestha is a research engineer with seven years of experience blending mechanical engineering, building energy modeling, and hands-on field instrumentation to improve building energy efficiency and indoor air quality. He splits his time between developing simulation and analysis tools (including contributions to the widely used EnergyPlus codebase and OpenStudio workflows) and deploying/validating DAQ systems and M&V instrumentation in real-world buildings. His work spans multizone airflow and contaminant dispersion modeling, Python and C++ software development, and practical field methods from blower-door and tracer-gas testing to Campbell Scientific datalogger programming. At national labs he has led complex, multi-stakeholder studies—such as a DOE-funded asbestos exposure M&V project—and empirically validated coupled CONTAM–EnergyPlus simulations. Comfortable moving between code, lab benches, and rooftops, he combines rigorous experimental design with strong data-analysis skills (Pandas, R, Matlab) to turn audit and sensor data into actionable retrofit strategies. An aerospace, drones, robotics and 3D-printing enthusiast, he brings cross-disciplinary curiosity to problems in cold-climate heat pumps, geothermal integration, and novel high-thermal-mass building materials.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Engineering (BE) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Mechanical Engineering at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering
Nepali, Nepal Bhasa, Hindi, English
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Github contributions (5)
NREL/EnergyPlus
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 15 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
Contributions summary:Prateek primarily worked on implementing and modifying features related to the EnergyPlus simulation program. Their contributions include starting the implementation of a specified flow element within the AirflowNetwork, as well as making changes to the ScheduleManager to include a daylight savings toggle option for Schedule:File. The user is also updating unit tests to validate these new features.
renewable-energypower-systemsenergy-consumptionenergy-simulationsimulation
prsh5175/IoT
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Flask On Off server
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
flaskpythonon-off
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