Curriculum vitae · updated 2026-03

Navin Nepal

DevOps & Backend Engineer · Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal

01 experience

Oct 2025 – Jan 2026

DevOps Intern at Verisk

DevOps · CI/CD · Containers

  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, automating build, test, and deployment workflows.
  • Deployed load-balanced applications on AWS EC2 with ALB, configuring health checks and traffic routing for high availability.
  • Implemented zero-downtime deployment strategies including blue-green deployments and rollback mechanisms.
  • Containerized backend and frontend services using Docker and Docker Compose, integrating Nginx as a reverse proxy for request routing.
  • Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including compute, networking, IAM roles, and security groups.

AWSDockerLinuxGitHub WorkflowsTerraform

02 projects

Cloud-Native Scalable Weather Platform

Event-driven distributed system · github.com/marconn01/Verisk_Internship ↗

  • Designed and deployed a production-grade, scalable cloud-native application using Dockerized services on AWS EC2 with ALB-based traffic distribution.
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform to provision EC2, ALB, IAM roles, and networking components reproducibly.
  • Built a fully automated CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions and Amazon ECR for image build, versioning, and deployment, using blue-green deployment for zero downtime.
  • Designed an event-driven, fault-tolerant data pipeline using Amazon SQS with decoupled producer and consumer services.
  • Implemented observability and reliability practices using CloudWatch logs, metrics, automatic health checks, and SNS-based alerting.

AWSCI/CDDockerEC2ECRS3LinuxTerraform

Rule-Based Self-Healing Kubernetes Infrastructure

Automated failure detection & remediation platform

  • Designed a rule-based self-healing system that detects service failures and automatically performs restart, scaling, and rollback actions.
  • Implemented Prometheus-based control loops using latency, error-rate, and restart metrics to trigger recovery.
  • Built a Python remediation service integrating with the Kubernetes API, including circuit breakers.
  • Validated recovery by injecting crashes in a test environment.

KubernetesPrometheusGrafanaPython

DataBridges: Backend and Data Analysis

Dataset exploration platform · github.com/bhattaraisushma ↗

  • Engineered an API to query and retrieve datasets from multiple sources.
  • Integrated external APIs (data.gov, Canadian Space Agency) to aggregate and display datasets on a single platform.
  • Performed exploratory data analysis (EDA) to assess dataset suitability for a Geographic Information System (GIS) application.
  • Structured the system for scalability, stateless services, and environment-based configuration.

FastAPIPandas

Realtime Voting System

Centralized ledger with manual DB management · github.com/marconn01/VotingSystem ↗

  • Developed a real-time voting system with Django and SQLite3.
  • Implemented a centralized ledger with vote hashing for record integrity.
  • Automated election start/end with Django admin and scheduled tasks.
  • Designed a scalable architecture with role-based access.

PythonDjangoSQLite3

Fabric Flow

Real-time 2D cloth simulation · demo video ↗

  • Developed a real-time 2D cloth simulation engine using Verlet integration and constraint-based physics.
  • Implemented interactive features like stretching, tearing, sphere collisions, wind flow, and multi-planet gravity.
  • Optimized performance with multithreaded constraint solving and adaptive timesteps for smooth simulation.

PythonPyOpenGLPygameNumPyMultithreading

03 leadership & community

2024 – present

Volunteer · GDG Kathmandu

  • Assisted in managing and curating content for GDG Kathmandu's social media platforms.
  • Promoted upcoming events and meetups, increasing community engagement.
  • Handled event backend and execution.

2023 – 2024

Technical Lead · Thapathali Literature Club, Thapathali Campus

  • Handled all technical aspects along with event logistics and digital promotions.
  • Designed the official club magazine: layout, visual design, and digital formatting.
  • Initiated the club's official website to strengthen its digital presence.

2016 – 2017

President · IT Club, SOS Hermann Gmeiner School

  • Led the IT Club in organizing tech-related extracurricular events.
  • Facilitated student engagement in technology through presentations.
  • Won Best Demonstration at the Parents' Meet.