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Siddartha
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Building backends, interfaces, and the quiet infrastructure between them.

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§01About · Trajectory

A small practice in two parts — building things that work, and learning what makes them not.

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name
Siddartha Kunwar
role
Software Engineer
city
Kathmandu, Nepal
lang
EN · NE
status
available for select work

I am an early-career software engineer working between systems and surfaces. My focus is on backend architecture, full-stack web platforms, and the steady, unglamorous craft of making software that does not break.

I am presently completing a Bachelor of Computer Engineering at Kantipur Engineering College, while shipping production work — most recently a multi-tenant ticketing backend for a national bus operator and an AI-collaborative SaaS I am building solo.

I am drawn to problems that sit between disciplines: payments and trust, real-time collaboration and consistency, infrastructure and developer experience.

⌖ Currently
  • BuildingElevoria — AI productivity SaaS
  • StudyingDistributed systems, queue patterns
  • ReadingDesigning Data-Intensive Applications
  • ListeningNils Frahm, Arvo Pärt, Lo-fi room tones
⌖ Trajectory · selected experience
  1. 2025 — present
    Backend Engineer at Gurubus

    Designed and shipped the production backend for gurubus.com.np — payments, RBAC, ticketing.

  2. 2025 — present
    Founding Engineer (solo) at Elevoria

    Independently architecting an AI-collaborative SaaS — backend, frontend, realtime, infra.

  3. May 2025 — Aug 2025
    Backend Developer Intern at Young Minds Creation Pvt. Ltd

    Three-month internship building a production Django + DRF web portal.

    • Developed a dynamic web portal with Django & Django REST Framework, designing RESTful APIs for core modules and integrating PostgreSQL for secure, efficient data management.
    • Built a custom admin dashboard and modular views in Django, leveraging dynamic forms and reusable context processors for efficient backend management.
    • Developed responsive UI components with Tailwind CSS and JavaScript, delivering production-ready code maintained through Git best practices.
  4. 2024 — 2025
    Full-Stack Developer at Personal & open-source

    MERN platforms, REST APIs, self-hosted deployments. Sathi Connect and adjacent work.

§02Selected work · Featured

Three pieces of work I am happy to show.

01

Gurubus

Bus ticketing backend, Nepal·2025·Backend Engineer · 3 months

Production backend for a national bus booking platform — multi-operator, payment-integrated, transactionally consistent.

  • Integrated three payment gateways — Khalti, eSewa, Stripe — with MongoDB session-backed transactional confirmations to keep booking state consistent under partial failures.
  • Multi-tier RBAC across User, Operator, Driver, Admin, SuperAdmin with JWT authentication and Google OAuth.
  • Booking workflow with real-time seat availability, three-hour auto-expiring holds, and email confirmations via Nodemailer.
  • Designed a dynamic trip scheduling system with configurable day-of-week patterns and automatic instance generation.
  • Ten-plus interconnected MongoDB models, RESTful API with custom query builder for filtering, pagination, search. OpenAPI / Swagger documented.
Node.jsExpressTypeScriptMongoDBJWTZodNodemailerVPS
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02

Elevoria

AI-collaborative productivity SaaS·2025 — present·Founding engineer · solo

A multi-tenant SaaS for workspaces, kanban boards, files, and real-time team collaboration — with AI assistance built into the workflow.

  • Modular multi-tenant architecture with ten-plus relational Prisma models and scalable API foundations.
  • Realtime workspace collaboration via Socket.IO — task synchronization, presence, live updates.
  • AI-assisted productivity features integrated through Google Gemini.
  • JWT auth + RBAC, cloud file uploads, OpenAPI / Scalar documentation.
  • Building solo end-to-end: backend architecture, database design, frontend dashboard, realtime systems, AI integration.
Next.jsTypeScriptExpressPostgreSQLPrismaSocket.IOGeminiScalar
private repository · in development
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03

Sathi Connect

Social network for developers·2024·Full-stack engineer

MERN social platform with auth, profiles, posts, likes and comments. A study in shipping a complete REST application end-to-end.

  • JWT-based authentication, profile management, post/comment/like flows.
  • Scalable REST API and production deployment configuration.
  • Built end-to-end with React, Redux, Node, Express, MongoDB.
ReactReduxNode.jsExpressMongoDB
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§03Open work · GitHub index
§04Schooling · Affiliations

The paper trail — what was learned, where, and with whom.

▣ Education
  1. 2021 — 2025
    Bachelor of Computer Engineering
    Kantipur Engineering College
    Tribhuvan University · Lalitpur, Nepal
  2. 2018 — 2020
    +2 Science
    Trinity International College
    Higher Secondary, Science stream
  3. — 2018
    SEE
    St. Joseph's School
    Secondary Education Examination
▣ Affiliations · Programs
MemberAug 2025 — present
Robotics Association of Nepal (RAN)
AlumniDec 2025 — present
Aspire Leaders Program · Aspire Institute
Cohort certificate, lifetime alumni
⌖ Certificates

Aspire Leaders Program — issued December 2025. Additional certificates listed on request; this slot will hold them as they are earned.

§05Tools · Stack manifest

The manifest — what's actually in the toolbox.

▣ Primary · daily
  • 01TypeScriptprimary language
  • 02Pythonbackend / scripting
  • 03Node.js / ExpressAPI runtime
  • 04Django / DRFpython backend
  • 05Next.jsfrontend / app router
  • 06ReactUI
  • 07PostgreSQLwith Prisma
  • 08MongoDBwith Mongoose
▣ Adjacent
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Socket.IO
  • JWT / OAuth
  • Zod
  • Docker
  • Linux / VPS
  • Nginx
  • Git
  • REST / OpenAPI
  • Google Cloud
  • AWS basics
  • GitHub Actions
▣ Learning · in progress
  • NestJSlearning
  • Kuberneteslearning
  • System architecturelearning
  • Distributed systemslearning

"I prefer tools that age well. The boring kind. Then I learn the new one anyway, slowly, on a project that does not matter yet."

§06Notes · Drafts in progress

A few half-finished thoughts — coming soon.

archive · 2026 ▸ drafts3 entries
  • 001soonOn building payment systems you can sleep throughdraft
  • 002soonThree months, three gateways, one consistency modeldraft
  • 003soonNotes on building a SaaS solo as a final-year studentdraft

These are not yet published. They live as fragments — typed in train rides, between merges, late at night. Returning here later will mean they are ready.

§07Correspondence · Colophon

Write, or just say hello.

I am open to collaboration on backend, full-stack and small infrastructure engagements. The best way to reach me is by email.

⌖ Colophon
built with
Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind · Three.js · Framer Motion
typeset in
Fraunces (display) & JetBrains Mono (text)
hosted on
Vercel
last updated
May 2026
source
github.com/Siddarth0

Designed and built by hand, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Type by Fraunces & JetBrains Mono. Photography is a placeholder until I find one I do not hate.

© 2026 S. Kunwar
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