Rupesh Nepal

★ Syncs 10,000+ SKUs across marketplaces and led the ERP migration from a legacy SaaS e-commerce platform to an in-house Django ERP.

• Built a daily self-healing sync of 40,000+ Shopify products into a central database, using bulk exports with a fallback to resumable multithreaded requests that checkpoint pagination cursors through rate limits.
• Migrating marketplace sync for 10,000+ SKUs across major EU marketplaces from a third-party feed tool to direct API integrations in the in-house ERP.
• Led the migration from a legacy SaaS e-commerce platform to an in-house Django and DRF ERP, moving all financial and warehouse data and eliminating recurring licensing costs.
• Contributed to rebuilding product translation uploads for 10+ locales on Shopify's GraphQL API, matching translations by Shopify's content digests instead of 15 MB file imports, cutting a new-domain rollout from 2 days to 9 hours.
• Helped replace a capped third-party bulk import tool with an in-house Shopify GraphQL pipeline that creates and updates products from a fixed-template file, 30-40% faster with no update cap.
• Built monthly dynamic pricing compliant with the EU Omnibus Directive 30-day lowest-price rule.
• Automated Google Shopping, Meta Catalog, and Pinterest Ads feeds through Google Sheets (OAuth, direct cell updates) and S3 (background processing), with rule-based product text, labels, and per-channel images.
• Deployed and managed multiple production applications via Dokploy, reducing deployment overhead and improving operational visibility.

★ Backend for a government project tracking system rolled out to municipalities across Nepal.

• Built role-based Django and DRF APIs for a government project tracking system rolling out to municipalities across Nepal, hosted on-premise for confidentiality.
• Built a unified Excel reporting module replacing inaccurate templates with reports that match each municipality's official standard.
• Optimized the database queries behind project progress tracking and refactored the legacy codebase onto Django 4 with a clean, extensible structure.

★ Built BeatzBazar, a C2C beats marketplace with SoX audio watermarking, Stripe payments, and real-time WebSockets.

• As the sole backend developer, built the DRF backend for BeatzBazar, a C2C beats marketplace, with SoX audio watermarking every 10 seconds on previews so only buyers get the original file.
• Integrated Stripe Checkout and webhooks for license tiers, using order IDs as idempotency keys to prevent duplicate charges.
• Shipped real-time chat and notifications with Django Channels over WebSockets.
• Ran audio processing and scheduled analytics on Celery, Redis, and Celery Beat, with a GitHub Actions CI pipeline (flake8, black).

★ Maintainer of GNOME Nepal's Django backend and contributor to Djate. GNOME instructor, running Linux and open source sessions at colleges across Kathmandu.

• Core contributor and maintainer of the GNOME Nepal backend system (Django).
• Contributed to 'Djate', a production-ready Django project template used by the community.
• Collaborated with open source contributors across Nepal to build and maintain community infrastructure.
• Reviewed pull requests, triaged issues, and mentored new contributors to the Django ecosystem.
• GNOME instructor, running Linux and open source sessions at colleges across Kathmandu.

★ Ran operations for UbuCon Asia 2025 (400 attendees, 2 days, 30+ talks and workshops), leading a 20-member team, plus the social media campaign.

• Led operations for UbuCon Asia 2025, hosted by Ubuntu Nepal: 400 attendees over 2 days with 30+ talks and workshops.
• Led a 20-member operations team across the multi-day conference.
• Ran the event's social media campaign.

★ Led logistics for IdeaX 2023, a hackathon organized in collaboration with UNESCO.

• Led logistics for IdeaX 2023, a hackathon organized in collaboration with UNESCO.