Big Data Analytics Post-graduate Certificate
4.0 GPA
Georgian College - Barrie, ON, Canada
Hi, I'm Peshal Nepal, an AI & ML Engineer who enjoys creating practical, smart systems that make things easier and more interesting. I love mixing natural language processing, computer vision, and automation to turn complex ideas into working solutions.
Over the years, I’ve worked on projects like building an AI-powered ATS with BERT, an exercise monitoring system using OpenPose and LSTM, and real-time security and virtual try-on systems using YOLOv5, FaceNet, and U-Net. I enjoy working with FastAPI, Docker, and cloud tools to deploy AI that feels seamless and reliable. Always learning, always building.
Building production AI systems for business automation and applied AI use cases, including multi-assistant web and voice workflows. Designed and implemented AI assistants using GPT-4 and GPT-5, built automated knowledge-base pipelines (crawler, ingestion, sync), and developed dynamic tool-integration workflows for custom business automations. Improved platform performance, reliability, and scalability through Azure-based container deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and backend optimization.
Developed an AI-powered Applicant Tracking System (ATS) using a BERT model trained on a custom resume dataset labeled with Doccano for Named Entity Recognition (NER). Automated extraction of key resume entities and matched them with job descriptions, reducing screening time by 40%. Also built a document classification system for mining clients to categorize files by project phase and auto-fill forms, lowering review costs by 60%. Deployed scalable AI services using Docker and CI/CD on AWS ECS.
Started as a Computer Vision Intern implementing core CV algorithms in C++ (image transforms, SURF, ORB) and building simple NN/CNN from scratch. Developed a security system on Raspberry Pi with CCTV feeds using YOLOv5 for object detection and FaceNet for face detection/recognition, sending real-time alerts and improving company security by over 70%. Built a virtual try-on system using U-Net for segmentation and a conditional GAN to render garments on users, increasing customer engagement by 40%. Led weekly AI study sessions on architectures like AlexNet, VGG, RNN, and LSTM, mentoring engineers on modern CV research.
Portfolio projects aligned with resume highlights and measurable outcomes.
Built a real-time multi-camera AI detection system for RTSP feeds with per-camera processing, detection overlays, and scalable event-driven backend workflows. Designed for monitoring use cases with support for multiple streams, low-latency inference, and production-oriented deployment.
Built a multi-model trading system combining TS-Mixer forecasting and crypto sentiment analysis to improve decision quality across volatile markets.
Designed a Raspberry Pi to cloud workflow that captures pose keypoints, syncs to S3, and powers LSTM-based exercise classification and rep counting for physiotherapy use cases.
Built an ATS with entity extraction and job-match scoring to automate candidate screening and improve recruiter throughput.
Modelled CDC chronic disease records to predict state-level arthritis trends and drive an early-alert dashboard for public-health planning.
Implemented neural-network building blocks from scratch in both C++ and Python to understand core deep-learning mechanics beyond framework abstractions. Focused on forward propagation, gradient-based learning, parameter updates, and reusable model components to build strong intuition for how neural networks train internally.
Built and explored YOLO-style object detection concepts from a learning-first perspective, breaking down the detection pipeline into understandable components such as feature extraction, prediction heads, bounding-box logic, and training/inference flow. Designed as a strong foundation for production detection systems later used in real-time CV work.
Implemented and experimented with Transformer-based sequence modeling components to deepen understanding of modern NLP architectures. Explored attention-driven representation learning and token-level sequence processing as a bridge toward LLM and generative AI engineering work.
Built a human segmentation pipeline using a U-Net model trained on the COCO dataset. Implemented data preprocessing, mask generation, training/evaluation loops, and visual inspection of predicted masks to validate pixel-level performance. This work strengthens the foundation for virtual try-on, scene understanding, and production CV segmentation workflows.
Explored recurrent neural networks for sequence and temporal learning tasks, focusing on how hidden states encode context over time. Helped build a solid understanding of sequence modeling concepts later applied in LSTM-based projects and time-dependent prediction workflows.
Curated and implemented a broad set of classical computer-vision and image-processing exercises, including edge detection, feature detectors, affine transforms, line detection, gradient thresholding, image rotation/ flipping, PCA, k-means clustering, and logistic regression. This repository showcases the engineering fundamentals that support robust modern CV system design.
Studied foundational GAN research papers and implemented generative adversarial networks from scratch to understand adversarial training dynamics, generator/discriminator interplay, loss functions, and stabilization techniques. Built and trained custom GAN architectures to visualize how learned representations generate realistic samples and evaluated model behavior through iterative experimentation.
Built notebook-based classification experiments to practice model training, evaluation, and iterative improvement across core deep-learning workflows. This project collection demonstrates hands-on experimentation discipline used later in production-focused ML and CV systems.
Fine-tuned a 7B LLaMA 2 model on custom conversational data to improve contextual task handling and reduce manual support for routine queries.
Developed a CCTV security system with object tracking and face recognition, deployed as Docker microservices for reliable real-time alerts.
Academic background in AI, analytics, and engineering supporting my applied machine learning and systems work.
Georgian College - Barrie, ON, Canada
Georgian College - Barrie, ON, Canada
Tribhuvan University - Kathmandu, Nepal
Industry and cloud certifications supporting my AI/ML engineering and deployment work.
Focused on AWS solution architecture, cloud design patterns, and infrastructure planning.
Covered core cloud concepts including compute, storage, cloud applications, and foundational AWS services.
Foundation-level training in machine learning concepts and AWS-based ML workflows.
Highlights from hackathons and innovation-focused competitions.
Won the Most Innovative Award and received a 10,000 NPR prize for a standout solution and implementation approach.
Ranked 4th out of 100+ participants by delivering a strong technical solution under competitive hackathon constraints.