Phur Sherpa
Burnaby,Canada
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
Vancouver, British Columbia
02.2021 - Current
- - Developed and deployed scalable web applications on Azure App Service, leveraging auto-scaling to handle high traffic efficiently.
- - Designed and implemented a price scraping tool across 1000+ websites using BullMQ for distributed job processing, with Azure Managed Identity for secure service-to-service authentication.
- - Built backend APIs using Node.js and Express, integrated with Azure Cosmos DB for high-performance, serverless database operations.
- - Engineered a responsive frontend in React, featuring real-time updates and dynamic UI interactions.
- - Leveraged Microsoft Copilot Studio to build low-code AI chatbots, streamlining user interaction for internal tools and automations.
- - Used Azure Managed Identity to simplify authentication and secret management during both development and production deployments.
- - Applied best practices for secure API development, including role-based access control and token validation for Microsoft Entra ID.
- - Enabled observability and diagnostics through structured logging and monitoring, ensuring application health in a distributed cloud environment.
Associate Software Developer
StarGarden Corporation
Vancouver
08.2017 - 09.2017
- - Migrated legacy code from VB to C# to integrate new technologies for easier integration and maintenance
- - Implemented, tested and integrated new features as per clients requirements
- - Generated and delivered on demand reports to end clients using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Junior WPF/.NET developer
Soapstand
Vancouver
03.2016 - 07.2017
- - Integrated 3rd party library to implement 2-way communication using a firmware
- - Implemented secure payment processing method by consuming 3rd party REST API endpoints
- - Worked closely with the UX designer to implement the UI using WPF
Education
Computer Systems Certificate - Software development
British Columbia Institute of Technology
01.2020
Bachelor's degree in Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Simon Fraser University
01.2015
International Baccalaureate (IB Diploma) - International Baccalaureate
Inter-Community School Zurich (ICSZ)
01.2010
Skills
- Azure OpenAI Service (GPT-4, GPT-35, embeddings)
- OpenAI API integration (chat, completion, embeddings)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
- Function calling with LLMs
- Prompt engineering for structured outputs
- Small Language Models (SLMs) deployment and cost optimization
- Multi-modal AI integrations (DALLE image generation)
- REST API development
- Azure OpenAI Service (GPT-4, embeddings) for enterprise AI deployments
- Nodejs
- Expressjs
- Rest API development
- Reactjs
- Redux
- Ramdajs
- Python
- FastAPI
Languages
Nepali (Limited Working), Tibetan (Elementary), English (Limited Working)
Awards
Full Scholarship to ICSZ
Timeline
Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
02.2021 - Current
Associate Software Developer
StarGarden Corporation
08.2017 - 09.2017
Junior WPF/.NET developer
Soapstand
03.2016 - 07.2017
Computer Systems Certificate - Software development
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree in Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Simon Fraser University
International Baccalaureate (IB Diploma) - International Baccalaureate
Inter-Community School Zurich (ICSZ)
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