Rajendra Adhikari
Researcher And Software Engineer III - Smart Building Systems - Residential Buildings Research Group at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Irving, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRajendra Adhikari is a research-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable smart building and energy systems, currently developing residential building modeling, smart-home integrations, and data analytics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He blends hands-on hardware integration with backend engineering—having led the multi-agent BEMOSS platform, designed distributed databases using Cassandra, and implemented fault-tolerant multi-node architectures. His background spans power systems design and control (from transmission line routing to battery–ultracapacitor controllers) and deep technical training, including MATLAB instruction and electronics labs. Rajendra’s work emphasizes practical energy efficiency and demand-response solutions that bridge academic research and deployable software/hardware stacks. Known for squeezing order-of-magnitude scalability gains in prior roles, he pairs a PhD-level understanding of electrical and computer engineering with a pragmatic, field-tested approach to system robustness. Based in Irving, Texas, he brings a rare combination of utility-sector experience and open-source minded building-automation engineering.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.95, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.95 at Virginia TechBachelor in Electrical Engineering, Power, 81.45%, Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Power, 81.45% at Institute of Engineering Pulchowk Campus
English, Nepali, Hindi
Github Skills (134)
climate-model10
python10
radiance10
power-systems10
hpc-applications10
energy-system10
scales10
parsing10
energyplus10
modeling10
pandas9
validation9
pythonic9
home-automation9
network-analysis9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NREL/buildstock-query
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
BuildStockQuery is a python library for querying datasets generated by ResStock™ and ComStock™.
Contributions:4 reviews, 16 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 3 months
query-resstock-comstock-buildstockbatch
rajeee/commitSignTest
Apr 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:11 PRs, 17 pushes, 11 branches in 5 years 3 months
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