aakrit subedi

About

aboutwho's behind this site

I'm Aakrit Subedi, a software engineer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. I've spent the last several years somewhere between writing the code and deciding what the code should be: designing systems, shipping them to real users, and then living with the consequences of both.

I started at Leapfrog Technology in 2019 as an associate software engineer, building ed-tech and health-tech applications and learning how software actually gets released. In 2021 I joined Naamche as part of a founding team of seven, grew with the company past seventy-five people and through its acquisition by reAlpha (NASDAQ: AIRE), and moved from software engineer to tech lead to engineering manager along the way.

What I actually do

Most of my work sits at the seam between architecture and delivery. That means API contracts and data models, CI/CD and AWS deployments, the retrieval and prompt-orchestration layer of an LLM product, and the review standards that keep a team's output consistent once more than three people are touching the same repository.

On the management side I've run sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives, scoped ambiguous client requirements into estimates with stakeholders across the US, Nepal, Indonesia and Singapore, interviewed and hired engineers, and grown people into owning technical decisions rather than just executing them. I stayed hands-on in the codebase through all of it.

Technologies I reach for

  • TypeScript and Node.js on the backend, with NestJS or plain services depending on how much structure the problem deserves
  • React and Next.js on the frontend, usually with Tailwind CSS
  • PostgreSQL and GraphQL for data, with caching and query tuning added when load justifies it — not before
  • AWS and Vercel for deployment, with CI/CD pipelines set up early rather than retrofitted
  • LLM application work: prompt orchestration, grounding responses in client content, and graceful fallbacks when a model or upstream service fails

Side projects

Weekends still go to building things. BCTNotes started because, as a student, I couldn't find decent notes and past papers in one place; it now serves 14,000+ engineering students. Murmur turns spoken rambling into notes and tasks. NEPSE AI writes and publishes daily stock-market summaries with no human in the loop. Every one of them started as a problem I had personally, and most of them taught me something that later showed up in my day job.

Community

Whatever I pick up I try to pass on — through meetups, talks, mentorship sessions, and long conversations with engineering students who are somewhere around where I started. I was awarded a full scholarship at Kantipur Engineering College, won the Best Software Award at LITE 2018, and several intra-college software competitions along the way.

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