Crason Shrestha

University of Central Florida

Sarasota High School

Hoveround Corporation

• Spearheaded the complete overhaul of an internal web application utilized exclusively within the company, focusing on enhancing usability and performance.
• Implemented modern design principles and technologies to revamp the user interface, resulting in a more intuitive and visually appealing experience for end users.
• Designed and implemented a relational database schema using MySQL to store and manage dynamic content for a web application, optimizing data retrieval and storage efficiency for improved performance and scalability.

CRESME, UCF Medical School

• Contributed to the development of a tailored ASP.NET Core MVC web application as a member of the senior design team for the UCF Medical School
• Took the initiative to proactively research and integrate open-source library ClosedXML, resulting in annual savings of $5,000 in licensing fees
• Created REST APIs using C# and leveraged Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery to construct responsive web pages
• Engaged in daily stand-up meetings and contributed to Agile-based Scrum sprint sessions using Jira and Kanban boards
• Contributed to the maintenance of a GitHub CI/CD pipeline for a Microsoft SQL database and a production Microsoft Azure web server

Namaste NPC

• As an apprentice developer, participated in the design and ongoing maintenance of an e-commerce website by implementing user-friendly navigation and efficient checkout processes
• Assisted in the development of a Content Management System (CMS) to streamline product listing updates to accommodate the client's evolving needs
• Researched project alternatives, complete with budget estimates and projected deadlines

OpenAI Projects

• Developed three web applications leveraging the OpenAI API for ChatGPT and DALL·E
• MoviePitch: This app takes in a one-sentence pitch for a movie and returns a movie synopsis, movie title, and also movie cover art generated using DALL·E
• Albert Chatbot: A conversational chatbot built using ChatGPT API and Firebase framework
• Restaurant Delivery Chatbot: A fine-tuned chatbot that answers questions about customers orders from a pre-selected dataset

Pantry Project

• Developed a full-stack ReactJS web application that offers nutritional cuisine recommendations based on current seasonal ingredient availability
• The web application utilized the MERN stack, incorporating MongoDB for the database, Express.js for API management, and React.js and Node.js to build the client-side JavaScript framework

Interactive University Website

• Designed and developed a hierarchical university website that emulated a real-life university, incorporating compartmentalized data structure, club management, and access-restricted views for authenticated users
• Built the frontend with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, while the backend was developed in PHP. The database was hosted using MySQL
• Implemented Google Maps API integration to enable users to create events with location tags