Portfolio of Samip Devkota, a software engineer building scalable APIs, data pipelines, and retrieval-backed AI systems. http://localhost:3000 I use AI agents because they help me build faster. But the more work I hand off, the more I wonder whether our review layers, permissions, and accountability systems are keeping up. and what happens when something goes wrong? http://localhost:3000/blog/so-who-actually-signed-off-on-this http://localhost:3000/blog/so-who-actually-signed-off-on-this Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Over Winter Term I had the opportunity to take a class on how mathematics plays a role in gerrymandering and redistricting elections. This got me thinking can we use mathematical and statistical concepts in drawing these districts? This blog explores how I used Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations can  to detect gerrymandering and create fairer electoral maps. http://localhost:3000/blog/algorithmic-redistricting-how-to-use-simulation-methods-for-analyzing-large-datasets http://localhost:3000/blog/algorithmic-redistricting-how-to-use-simulation-methods-for-analyzing-large-datasets Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Could we use the readability and sentiment of reviews to understand user preferences and make better book recommendations? It seemed simple enough on the surface—analyze the text, derive some meaningf http://localhost:3000/blog/what-can-text-data-on-goodreads-tell-us-data-analytics-for-predictive-modelling http://localhost:3000/blog/what-can-text-data-on-goodreads-tell-us-data-analytics-for-predictive-modelling Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT When I set out to improve my portfolio website, I realized that adding new content like experiences or projects was unnecessarily tedious. Each update required me to modify the codebase, commit change http://localhost:3000/blog/design-to-deployment-building-a-cms-from-scratch-a-reflection http://localhost:3000/blog/design-to-deployment-building-a-cms-from-scratch-a-reflection Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT