Hello, I'm Sandesh Lamichhane
I build things to solve my problems, and hopefully yours too.
About Me
I'm a developer based in Kentucky. I build things to solve problems in my life and in the lives of people around me. Sometimes that's the HPC platforms ~1,200 researchers at the University of Kentucky run their work on, sometimes a freelance website for a local business that needed one, and sometimes a bilingual Nepali genealogy app I built so my own family could keep track of itself.
When I'm not coding, you'll find me reading, playing flute or piano, or tinkering with whatever I'm currently obsessed with.
Skills & Interests
Languages
Web & Backend
HPC & Systems
AI / ML
Personal Interests
Projects
In progress
LOOM
MVP-stageA cross-domain trend detection system I've been chipping away at since January. Stuff is happening everywhere and it's hard to pick out signal from noise. LOOM is my attempt to pull it out, and help connect the dots on what's going on, and maybe where it's going.
Edge ML inference
TinkeringPlaying with Whisper variants, MediaPipe, and Meta's SAM2 / SAM3D, with ONNX gluing the toolchain together. Mostly figuring out what actually fits on the device you have, not the device the model was trained on.
Things I've Built
FeaturedMyPariwar
Built so my own family could actually keep track of itself. Bilingual (English and Nepali) with full Bikram Sambat calendar support throughout, since no existing tool offered either. Every change is audit-logged, every photo is auth-gated, and the whole thing runs behind a private tunnel with no exposed ports.
Health-Related Text Classification
Improving models for health-related social media text classification. Took benchmark F1 from 64.9 to 95 via custom data cleaning, learning-rate tuning, and pretrained-model selection.
ABC to TAB
A planning system that translates music written in ABC notation into guitar TAB notation. Uses Fast Downward (LM-Cut heuristic) over a custom guitar model.
Selected Freelance
Opal Events & Arrangements
Site for a local event-planning business, focused on showcasing their services with a clean, responsive design.
Garage Door Solutions of KY
SEO-focused site for a local business with services and area-served pages.
Experience & Education
Work Experience
Systems Professional II / Senior Developer
University of Kentucky (ITS RCI)
I help build and run the platforms researchers at UKy actually use day-to-day: an account portal, the Software Documentation Service (a small platform a few teams now depend on), the cluster-build automation that keeps the toil under control, and the LLM/RAG/MCP work for the ACCESS ecosystem. The cluster side is what I came for; the platform side is what I've grown into.
ACCESS Track 2 Software Developer
University of Kentucky (NSF)
Built tools to make national HPC infrastructure less mysterious to first-time users: the ACCESS Resource Advisor (which national supercomputer fits your problem?) and the first version of the Software Documentation Service (what's actually installed where?).
Software Developer
Berea College
My first real dev job. Worked on small full-stack apps for departments around campus that needed them: volunteer hours, course catalogs, a chemical inventory. Not glamorous, but it taught me how to ship.
Open Source Contributor
Runestone Interactive
Spent a summer co-authoring a data-science textbook on Runestone Academy. Wrote the business datasets, the data-cleaning chapters, and the pandas / scikit-learn intros. My first taste of teaching by writing.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Kentucky
B.A. in Computer & Information Sciences and Mathematics (double major)
Berea College
Get In Touch
Let's Connect
I'm always happy to chat about side projects, HPC, interesting technical problems, or potential new roles. If you have something on your mind, or just want to say hi, drop me a line.