Ishan Dongol

I currently work as a freelance Software Engineer through Turing Inc, contributing to scalable web applications and cloud-based solutions using modern JavaScript and Python technologies. Day-to-day the work involves React and TypeScript on the front end, Node.js and Python on the back end — shipping production features as part of distributed teams across different time zones.

I worked as a Researcher at the Information and Language Processing Research Lab (ILPRL) during my M.Tech thesis, focusing on Nepali Text-to-Speech using transformer-based architectures. The research sat squarely in low-resource language processing — building with PyTorch, applying deep learning and NLP techniques to a language that still lacks much of the training data larger languages take for granted. It eventually led to a peer-reviewed publication at ICON 2023.

At Innovate Tech I worked as a Full Stack Developer across the web and mobile stack. The day-to-day spanned React and TypeScript on the front end, Node on the back end, Android in Kotlin on the mobile side, and tooling around Webpack and Nx to keep a growing monorepo manageable. It was the role where I grew into owning features end-to-end — design through delivery — rather than just contributing to slices of the product.