Pratima Sapkota

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States11 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Built scalable systems for Fortune 500 clients.
Led a team to optimize LLM training data pipelines.
Developed a logistics SaaS driving 35,000+ deliveries.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in SaaS and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Full-stack DevelopmentSoftware DesignArtificial Intelligence (ai)Natural Language Processing (nlp)E-commerceSoftware As A Service (saas)Logistics ManagementHealthcare Management

Other Skills

DjangoReactPostgreSQLCeleryRedisGCPRLHFLLM Fine-TuningFlutterMySQLPythonFastAPITypeScriptNode.jsGit

About

I'm a full-stack software engineer with 5+ years of production experience building backend systems, LLM pipelines, and full-stack products that scale. At Turing, I was promoted to Team Lead within a month, built a Contractor Management System serving 10+ Fortune 500 clients, processed 200,000+ contractor records daily through a Celery/Redis pipeline, and improved application response times by 4x through query optimization. I also ran RLHF evaluations and designed chain-of-thought prompts that contributed to fine-tuning cycles on the world's leading LLM. As founding engineer at Dispatch, I built a multi-tenant logistics SaaS from scratch that onboarded 6 enterprise clients in 3 months and drove 35,000+ deliveries in the first 6 months. Outside of work, I built CollegeTown, a cross-platform app with a RAG pipeline backed by PostgreSQL pgvector that serves 3,000+ active users with zero hallucinations on campus-specific queries. I also rank competitively in FSU graduate-level CTF competitions across reverse engineering, cryptography, and network forensics. I hold a Master's in Computer Science from Florida State University with a 3.97 GPA. Core skills: Python, Django, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, GCP, Docker, RAG, RLHF, LLM Fine-Tuning, TypeScript, Node.js

Experience

11 mos

Total Experience

11 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Turing

Software Engineer

Nov 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote

Promoted to Team Lead within 1 month of joining and managed a 6-person cross-functional team responsible for QA across LLM training data pipelines.
Built a Contractor Management System in Django, React, and PostgreSQL serving 10+ Fortune 500 clients that consolidated onboarding, performance tracking, cross-client transfers, and offboarding into a single platform, replacing a scattered mix of spreadsheets and manual handoffs that had made cross-client visibility nearly impossible.
Designed a trigger-based Celery/Redis task queue on GCP that generated performance metrics across 200,000+ contractor records daily, replacing a manual reporting process that could not keep up with data volume as the contractor base scaled.
Audited the entire application for N+1 query problems, rewrote queries across multiple endpoints to eliminate per-row database lookups, and improved response times throughout the app by 4x.
Built a JWT-authenticated ETL pipeline to automate contractor data ingestion, schema mapping, and normalization across client databases, fixing recurring data inconsistencies that had been causing reporting errors across clients.
Ran RLHF evaluations across 10+ prompt categories grading accuracy, coherence, and safety, and designed multi-step chain-of-thought prompts to surface logical gaps that single-turn evaluations consistently missed. Findings contributed to fine-tuning cycles on world's leading LLM.
Wrote the RLHF training curriculum and onboarding documentation for 15+ new evaluators, cutting ramp-up time by 40% and getting new hires productive within days instead of weeks.

DjangoReactPostgreSQLCeleryRedisGCP+2

Dispatch

Founding Software Engineer

Nov 2021 – Oct 2022 · 11 mos · Hybrid

Designed and built a multi-tenant logistics SaaS from scratch on DigitalOcean with database-per-tenant isolation, a centralized control database, and subdomain routing for full tenant separation.
Built Django REST APIs and a cross-platform Flutter app for iOS and Android with real-time GPS tracking, push notifications, and digital proof-of-delivery capture, cutting manual dispatch overhead by 70% and replacing entirely paper-based client workflows.
Landed 6 enterprise clients in 3 months by building custom integration scripts for each client during onboarding, driving 35,000+ cumulative deliveries across all clients in the first 6 months.
Automated database provisioning and migration scripts during the MVP-to-SaaS migration, keeping infrastructure costs 30% lower than projected as the client base scaled.

DjangoFlutterPostgreSQLCeleryLogistics ManagementSoftware as a Service (SaaS)

Ulpu skins

Co-Founder

Nov 2020 – Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Aloknagar, Baneshwor, Kathmandu · On-site

Built the company's e-commerce platform on Django from scratch, growing it to 500+ product listings and 1,000+ monthly orders with 10% month-over-month sales growth.
Cut product release cycles from multiple days to 3 hours by automating order tracking, inventory sync, and customer notifications with Celery and Redis, freeing the team to focus on growth instead of operations.
Increased repeat customer rate by 35% after shipping a real-time JavaScript product preview with dynamic image rendering, directly reducing buyer hesitation at the point of purchase.
Integrated a secure payment gateway and built a vendor partnership network to improve delivery reliability and sustain consistent revenue growth.

DjangoCeleryPostgreSQLE-CommerceSoftware as a Service (SaaS)

Wiseyak inc.

Software Engineer Intern

Apr 2020 – Jul 2020 · 3 mos · Remote

Designed a pharmacy database schema with automated stock tracking, expiration alerts, and low-stock notifications, eliminating 90% of manual data entry for healthcare staff.
Built REST APIs with JWT authentication for a high-traffic telemedicine platform and optimized query performance using lazy loading and serializers.

MySQLPythonHealthcare Management