Sankalpa Timilsina
Research Software Engineer at Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolSankalpa Timilsina is a Research Software Engineer with nine years of experience blending academic research and industry-grade engineering to build high-throughput, cloud-native systems. At Tennessee Technological University he led a NIST-collaborative project to automate and share real network traffic traces and tuned data transfers to sustain up to 60 Gbps, demonstrating a rare mix of systems-level performance engineering and reproducible research. Previously he drove end-to-end product delivery in startups and consulting—cutting page loads under 2s, automating CI/CD, and trimming AWS costs through smart autoscaling and sleep strategies. He is fluent across Python, Node.js, C++, Kubernetes and AWS/GCP, and has hands-on experience with observability stacks, GraphQL, and microservices. Open to new opportunities, he pairs rigorous academic training (MS CS, 4.0) with practical impact—often finding inexpensive operational wins that materially reduce cost and latency.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, 4.0, Masters, Computer Science, 4.0 at Tennessee Technological UniversityBachelors, Computer Engineering, Bachelors, Computer Engineering at IOE Pulchowk
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Github Skills (25)
testbed8
mongodb6
nodejs6
sailsjs6
jwt6
storage6
mongoose6
ajax6
javascript6
body-parser6
high-speed5
nlp5
dpdk5
docker-compose5
lists5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sankalpatimilsina12/sankalpatimilsina12.github.io
Oct 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 6 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 11 months
tntech-ngin/ndn-traffic-capture-scripts
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
NDN traffic traces - Capture Scripts
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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