# Aavaas Gajurel

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aavaas

Full Stack software engineer. Java, Python, JavaScript, Typescript, Kotlin, SQL, C/C++

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2019 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Quickbooks online - Direct Deposit & Money movement
Quickbooks online - Electronic tax setup and payment
Quickbooks online - Payroll Tax Filing
Quickbooks online - Pay Distribution
Quickbooks online - Work-location Policies

### Graduate Research @ University of Nevada, Reno
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Reno, Nevada Area
* Research in machine learning and neural networks; specifically evolving neural networks to create competitive artificial intelligent agents for games.
*Published papers based on research into micromanagement of units in Starcraft II.
*Used CUDA GPU acceleration to speed up arbitrary structure neural networks created by evolution
*Wrote sockets code in C++ and C# to distribute processing to multiple machines to speed up training time by 20x.

### Lead Software Engineer @ SystemX
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Kathmandu, Nepal
*Lead the development of stock market analytics software for Nepalese stock market (System X - https://www.smtmcapital.com.np/systemx ) and helped the company grow from its 1st to the 100th client and more.
*Coordinated the team of 5 developers; motivated and executed the transition from desktop to web platform.
*Worked on core architecture/API design, hiring, etc. Used Java, Mysql, Scala/Play Framework, Typescript, React.
*Inherited and improved upon the legacy code and incorporated domain knowledge from experts into the software.

### Software Engineer @ Viveka Health
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York
Part time Front End developer for a Health Insurance Claims processing system. Used Angular, Grunt, CSS, Node.

### Web Developer @ Nepal Physical Society
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Kathmandu, Nepal
Developed and updated the website nps.org.np for Nepal Physics Society. Used PHP/WordPress.

### Software Engineering Intern @ E&T Nepal Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Researched the feasibility of fluid simulation using Lattice Boltzmann Machine method for aerodynamics testing and created a proof of concept 2D fluid simulator and simulation visualizer in C++.

### Java Developer @ Freelance, self-employed
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater Boston Area
*Developed computerized trading system based on Java for speeding up trading decisions in US Stock market.
*Processed streaming news (Dow Jones Newswire) with historical trends for real time trading suggestions.
*Created a trading interface that Integrated with Interactive Broker API to receive quotes and place quick orders.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Nevada, Reno

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
Institute of Engineering (IOE Pulchowk Campus), Tribhuvan University

### High School
St. Xaviers College, Khathmandu


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aavaas
- Portfolio: https://www.cse.unr.edu/~aavaas
- GitHub: https://www.github.com/aavaas

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Last updated: 2026-04-12