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Curious mind · thoughtful software

I look beyond the obvious and build what helps.

A curious software developer turning real problems into calm, useful products.

Arpan Karki
Projects built
5
Internship
3 mo.
Perspective
Nepal ↔ UK

How my mind works

Four short notes on curiosity, unusual connections, perspective, and solving the problem that actually matters.

“Stay curious. Look sideways. Solve what matters.”

A principle I build by

Nepal ↔ United Kingdom

A point of view shaped between places

Living and studying across Nepal and the UK taught me to notice context: how culture, language, confidence, and belonging can change the same experience.

Now / August 2026

Making
Small, useful products from real human problems.
Learning
Python, AI/ML fundamentals, and better product evaluation.
Looking for
Curious teams that value craft, clarity, and genuine usefulness.

Different products. One recurring instinct.

5 projects exploring how software can make movement, memory, food, learning, and arrival easier to navigate.

Working prototype

Himalayan Kitchen — Restaurant Ordering Platform

Problem

Independent restaurants need a direct way to accept online orders without relying entirely on marketplace platforms.

Solution

A responsive ordering prototype that connects QR menu discovery, configurable dishes, Stripe checkout, live order tracking, and restaurant operations across customer, kitchen, and staff views.

My role

Full-stack developer — independent project

Key features

  • QR-accessible storefront with configurable menu items and basket checkout.
  • Stripe payments, confirmation emails, and token-based live order tracking.
  • Role-based dashboards for menus, kitchen orders, customers, and staff.

Main technologies

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabasePostgreSQLStripeTailwind CSS, Nodemailer
Completed portfolio project

TrackHopper — London Commute Planner

Problem

Planning a London journey can be difficult when people know landmarks or plain-English destinations rather than exact station names.

Solution

A journey-planning prototype that interprets natural-language requests, resolves landmarks, combines TfL routes with live status and fares, and presents each result as clear steps on an interactive map.

My role

Full-stack developer — independent project

Key features

  • Plain-English journey input with landmark and typo-aware place resolution.
  • TfL routes, fare information, live line status, and geolocation support.
  • Interactive maps, saved routes, and an admin view for API health.

Main technologies

Next.jsTypeScriptTfL APIPollinations AISupabaseLeaflet, OpenStreetMap
Challenge submission

Katha — AI Folk Tale Preservation

Problem

Oral folk tales can disappear when they are never recorded, written down, or passed to another generation.

Solution

An AI-assisted preservation platform where people can record or type stories, clean and translate them, generate illustrations, preserve voice audio, and export accessible creative formats such as picture books.

My role

Full-stack developer — IBM AI challenge project

Key features

  • Voice or text story capture with audio preservation and multilingual reading.
  • AI-assisted cleanup, translation, tagging, and generated illustrations.
  • Picture-book, comic, story-map, community, and printable PDF experiences.

Main technologies

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabasePollinations AIWeb Speech APILeaflet, OpenStreetMap
Active development

LandedUK — International Student Platform

Problem

International students arriving in the UK often need practical guidance, budgeting, documents, community support, and local information across disconnected sources.

Solution

A settling-in companion that brings a guided 30-day journey, personalised AI assistance, budgeting, document storage, maps, community features, messaging, and moderation tools into one responsive web application.

My role

Full-stack developer — independent project

Key features

  • Sequential 30-day onboarding journey with personalised AI guidance.
  • Budget tracking, document storage, maps, and community tips.
  • Real-time messaging plus student verification and moderation workflows.

Main technologies

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabasePostgreSQLPollinations AILeaflet, Recharts
Active development

Blumo — Developer Consistency Platform

Problem

Students and early-career developers can struggle to turn broad learning goals into consistent, meaningful development practice.

Solution

An AI-assisted platform that turns a development goal into a small daily mission, lets the user review and edit the work, and creates an approved contribution in a selected GitHub repository.

My role

Full-stack developer — independent project

Key features

  • GitHub sign-in, developer-goal onboarding, and repository selection through a separately installed GitHub App.
  • AI-assisted daily missions that users can complete, edit, preview, and explicitly approve.
  • Progress history and a repository safety model that restricts writes and blocks sensitive paths.

Main technologies

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseGitHub AppPollinations AIOctokit, Vitest, Zod, Resend

Backend development experience

Practical experience building, testing, and debugging server-side application features.

  1. Backend Developer Intern

    ING Skill Academy
    NepalJune 2024 — September 2024 · 3 months

    Completed a three-month backend development internship focused on Node.js and server-side application development.

  2. Event Coordinator & Technical Representative

    ING Skill Academy

    Kathmandu, NepalJanuary 2022 — April 2022

    Combined event coordination with technical support responsibilities for the academy.

Volunteering

  1. Event Volunteer

    IJAD Dance Company — Innovation Lab (Human AI: Artistic Intelligence)

    Riverside Studios, London, UKJune 2026

    Supported a full-day arts and AI innovation event exploring generative and human-centred AI in the creative sector.

    • Managed guest check-in, attendee registration, photography and filming consent, and newsletter sign-ups.
    • Captured and uploaded workshop images to a shared Google Drive using QR codes.
    • Documented sessions through photography and recorded key questions and discussion points for the event team.
    • Helped with event setup, AV and equipment preparation across workshops and talks.
  2. Volunteer

    Sustainable Newham — Green Fair

    London, UKJune 2026

    Supported a community sustainability fair through event setup, attendee guidance, and general event support.

    • Arranged tables, chairs, and event materials before attendees arrived.
    • Stewarded attendees and guided visitors to activities and information points.
    • Helped the green team maintain a welcoming environment through litter picking and general support tasks.
  3. Workshop Participant

    UBS AI Workshop

    London, UKJune 2026

    Attended an AI workshop focused on generative AI and the future of AI adoption in financial services.

    • Learned from industry speakers and UBS leaders about practical AI tools, governance, and business applications.
    • Strengthened understanding of responsible AI use, innovation, and current trends in AI-driven workplaces.

Academic background

Academic study in computing and computer science.

MSc Computer Science

University of East London

Docklands Campus, London, United Kingdom2026 — 2027
Current

BSc in Computing

Itahari International College

Dulari, Morang, Nepal2022 — 2025
Completed

Curious by nature. Practical on purpose.

I look beyond the obvious, connect ideas across different worlds, and build for genuine human needs.

What I bring

End-to-end thinking

Following an idea from the human problem to interface, logic, data and delivery.

Structure beneath calm

Building the APIs, data models and application logic that make simplicity possible.

The human moment first

Starting with what someone is trying to understand, decide, remember or reach.

Questions before certainty

Learning through projects, feedback, postgraduate study and careful experimentation.

I keep returning to the same kind of moment: someone is trying to find their way, hold on to something meaningful, or make an unfamiliar system feel manageable.

My projects move from restaurant ordering to journey planning, folk-tale preservation, and settling into a new country. Different products, one instinct: understand the real problem and make the next step clearer.

My perspective has been shaped between Nepal and the UK—between community-centred experiences and the complexity of beginning again somewhere new.

I like software that feels calm, explains itself, and respects the person using it. Underneath that simplicity, I enjoy interfaces, application logic, data, integrations, security, and delivery.

I am still learning in public—using every project to ask a better question than the last.

The tools beneath the ideas

A practical stack covering interfaces, backend development, data, integrations, and deployment workflows.

Frontend

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • Framer Motion
  • Leaflet Maps
  • Recharts

Backend & Data

  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Express.js
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST APIs
  • Stripe
  • Nodemailer
  • Row Level Security

AI, ML & Integrations

  • AI-assisted development
  • AI/ML fundamentals — learning
  • Pollinations AI
  • IBM watsonx.ai
  • TfL Unified API
  • OpenStreetMap
  • GitHub API
  • Web Speech API

Tools & DevOps

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Docker
  • Vercel
  • CI/CD
  • npm
  • Postman
  • Figma
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