Engineer w/o an Engineering Degree since ’17

Alok Shrestha.

I bridge business needs with tech.

Principal Engineer | BI Developer. I've worked on data-driven solutions across Education, Healthcare, and e-Commerce domains. I specialize in data analysis, automation, web scraping, and leveraging AI in my day-to-day work to turn raw data into insightful dashboards.

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Tools & Skills

Data Visualization & BI

Power BI

DAX

Excel

Data Engineering & Analysis

SQL

Python

Pandas

Azure

BigQuery

Airflow

Data Scraping

AI & Developer Tools

GitLab

JavaScript

Shopify

Power Automate

AI Tools (ChatGPT / LLMs)

Antigravity

Featured Software & Tools

Open Source Windows Migration Utility

💻 Laptop Migration Hub

An intelligent, modular Windows migration and configuration synchronizer. Back up and restore developer environments, dotfiles, shell configs, multiple timezone clocks, Wi-Fi network passwords, Chrome/Edge/Firefox browser profiles, Antigravity AI / VS Code / Notepad++ unsaved buffers, and Microsoft Office (Excel/Word) custom ribbons & macros.

Capabilities GitHub .EXE

IDE Unsaved Buffers & Hot Exits Office Ribbon Tabs & Macros Multi-Profile Browsers Multi-Timezone Clocks Wi-Fi Profiles Dotfiles & CLIs Winget Manifest 100% Offline & File Logs

Civic Web Utility

Nepal Driving License Print Checker

Real-time print status & collection guidance across 4 Bagamati Province Transport Offices. 100% Client-side with zero tracking.

Open Checker

Finance Tool

Nepal Income Tax Calculator

Real-time income tax and social security calculations under Government of Nepal tax slabs.

Open Calculator

Experience

Principal Engineer | BI Developer

Ycotek

July 2025 - Present 1 yr 2 mos

Domain: Higher Education Analytics & Multi-tenant BI

Lead a team of engineers, manage reporting projects for Multinational University based in US/ANZ in the Education domain.

Power BI

SQL

Python

BigQuery

Airflow

OpenAI

Antigravity

GitLab

24+

Engineers Led

US/ANZ Univ.

40+

BI Dashboards

Active Student Reporting Scale: High

Data Manager & Consultant

Freelance

May 2023 - Present 3 yrs 4 mos

Domain: E-Commerce Data Automation & Catalog Engineering

Data management and consulting for Shopify e-Commerce. Worked on 15M+ products, inventories, and metafields, reducing manual efforts by 3 man hours using custom automation scripts.

Shopify

Python

Excel

15M+

Items Worked

3 Hrs

Daily Saved

99.9%

Script Uptime

Automation Run Success Rate: 99.9%

Lead Engineer / Senior Software Engineer II

LIS Nepal Pvt. Ltd.

Sept 2022 - July 2025 2 yrs 11 mos

Domain: Enterprise Retail Data Warehousing & Cloud ETL

Led Azure infrastructure conversions, built ETL pipelines in Python, developed Power BI reports, and managed CI/CD deployments.

Power BI

Azure

Python

SQL

Git / GitHub

15M+

Daily Trans.

30+

Power BI Reports

CI/CD Pipelines

Azure Synapse → Python ETL → Power BI

Senior Data Analyst

GrowByData

Sept 2017 - Sept 2022 5 yrs 1 mos

Domain: Ad Intelligence, Web Scraping & Search Analytics

Analyzed data for ad intelligence, maintained databases, built automation scripts, and communicated with US clients.

SQL

Python

Excel

Git / GitHub

1.2M+

Pages Indexed

500M+

DB Records

+140%

Data Accuracy

Ad Intelligence Crawl Scale (Per Day) Speed: High

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Information Technology

St. Xavier's College, Maitighar

2013 - 2018

Plus Two, Science

St. Xavier's College, Maitighar

2011 - 2013

School Leaving Certificate

St. Xavier's School, Jawalakhel

2008 - 2011

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