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Contact Information

Name Paras Pokharel
Location Burnaby, British Columbia

Professional Summary

Data engineer at Klassen Group and MS Computer Science student at Georgia Tech, with a background in experimental high energy physics

Experience

  • 2025 - Present

    Burnaby, Canada

    Data Engineer
    Klassen Group Inc
    • Lead developer of the Databricks and dbt data warehouse, including sales, cost, and freight models.
    • Build ERP and operational data pipelines, dashboards, and applications with sales, finance, operations, and logistics teams.
    • Manage data quality, governance, infrastructure, CI/CD, Terraform, and Databricks costs.
  • 2021 - 2024
    Graduate Researcher
    European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
    • Developed graph neural networks to identify emerging jets in the ATLAS experiment using PyTorch and DGL.
    • Evaluated model performance on simulated collision data.
  • 2019 - 2020
    Intern
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    Simulated non-X-ray background radiation for the proposed ARCUS X-ray telescope

Education

  • 2025 - 2027

    Atlanta, U.S.A

    MS
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Computer Science (Computing Systems)
  • 2021 - 2023

    Burnaby, Canada

    MSc
    Simon Fraser University
    Experimental High Energy Physics
  • 2017 - 2021

    Washington D.C, U.S.A

    BSc
    Howard University
    Mathematics and Physics

Skills

Data & ML: Databricks, dbt, Terraform, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Applied Machine Learning, High Performance Computing (HPC)
Programming: Python, C++, Git, Software Development, Mathematics

Languages

English :
Nepali :

Interests

Physics: High Energy Physics, Quantum Information
Computing: Machine Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Data Science, Statistical Modeling

Certificates

References

  • Dr. Matthias Danninger

    sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/mdanning.html

  • Dr. James Lindesay

    profiles.howard.edu/james-lindesay