Kathmandu, Nepal Available for work

Kandel Jhapendra (J.K)

Full-stack developer, cybersecurity enthusiast and automation engineer.

“Build with precision, secure by design, automate with purpose.”

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About me

I'm a full-stack developer, cybersecurity enthusiast and automation engineer based in Kathmandu, Nepal, and I'm working towards a Bachelor's in Information Technology. I build secure, scalable web applications, from custom WordPress platforms and news portals to REST APIs and self-hosted infrastructure. I try to keep security part of the work from the start rather than adding it at the end.

Focus areas

  • Ethical hacking & penetration testing
  • Network security & secure software development
  • DevOps & infrastructure automation
  • Applied AI, LLM systems & workflow automation

Currently learning

  • Advanced LLM fine-tuning
  • RAG pipelines
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Container orchestration
  • BITInformation Technology
  • 3professional certifications
  • 80thHack Astra CTF · of 450
  • Self-hostedUbuntu on Orange Pi
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Skills

  • HTML592
  • CSS390
  • JavaScript85
  • PHP88
  • React82
  • Python80
  • MySQL85
  • WordPress90
  • Linux / Server admin78
  • Docker75
  • Ethical hacking / Pen-testing70
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Selected projects

Open ABC News Nepal

ABC News Nepal

Featured Public

Built the full ABC News site by myself from scratch. Front end, back end, and all the server work and DevOps to deploy it and keep it running.

  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • DevOps
  • Automation

Web Platform

Nepali Text to Speech Model

Featured Private

Trained a speech model that reads Nepali out loud, so Nepali text can be turned into natural sounding audio.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Speech

AI / Machine Learning

Video Reel Generator

Private

A model that takes a topic or a short script and builds a vertical video reel from it, adding cuts and captions on its own.

  • Python
  • Video
  • Generative AI

AI / Machine Learning

Voice to Text Model

Private

A speech recognition model that listens to spoken audio and writes out what was said.

  • Python
  • ASR
  • Audio

AI / Machine Learning

Nepali LLM on Home Hardware

Featured Private

A language model built for Nepali, trained and served entirely on my own homelab machine running an AMD AI Pro 32GB GPU.

  • LLM
  • Fine-tuning
  • AMD ROCm
  • Homelab

AI / Machine Learning

Kandel Holdings

Private

Property and bill management platform with real-time updates for tenants and owners.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Real-time

Web Application

Restaurant Management System

Private

Order and invoice management that keeps table orders, billing and kitchen tickets in one dashboard.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • JavaScript

Web Application

Notes Sharing Platform

Private

Collaborative learning platform with note uploads, browsing and real-time chat between students.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • WebSockets

Web Application

Open NetGuard DNS Monitor on GitHub

NetGuard DNS Monitor

Public

Real-time DNS monitoring and threat detection that flags suspicious lookups as they happen.

  • Python
  • Networking
  • Security

Cybersecurity Tool

Techkart

Private

A full shopping website with a catalogue, cart and checkout flow on a PHP and SQL backend.

  • PHP
  • SQL
  • JavaScript

E-commerce

Open ONSS

ONSS

Public

Online Notes Sharing System. Upload, browse and download study notes with user accounts.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Bootstrap

Web Application

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The journey

  1. 01 · Where it started

    Started with websites, stayed for the rest.

    I began building small websites in school and never really stopped. Along the way I got interested in how systems break, and now I care about building and securing them at the same time. I try to keep things safe from the first line of code instead of fixing it later.

  2. 02 · Learning the whole stack

    One layer at a time.

    I picked up the stack piece by piece. C and Python first, then databases and Node on the server, then React on the front end. Now I am comfortable working across all of it on the same project.

    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • React
    • Node.js
    • PHP
    • MySQL
  3. 03 · Getting into security

    Learning how things break.

    I spend time on ethical hacking, network security and penetration testing. Understanding how something can be attacked makes me better at building it. I treat every input as untrusted.

    • Ethical Hacking
    • Network Security
    • Hack Astra CTF, 80th of 450
  4. 04 · Shipping real things

    Not demos, real products.

    These are running in production, not sitting in a folder. A property and billing platform, a restaurant order and invoice system, a notes app with live chat, and a DNS monitor that watches for bad lookups.

  5. 05 · Running my own servers

    I like knowing how it runs.

    I self host an Ubuntu server on an Orange Pi Zero 2W at home, and I run a homelab machine with an AMD AI Pro 32GB GPU for model training. I set up the Docker containers, the web server and the database myself.

    • Orange Pi self-hosting
    • AMD GPU homelab
    • Docker & Compose
  6. 06 · What I am on now

    Mostly models and automation.

    Right now I am spending my time on training and running language models, Nepali speech models, RAG pipelines and container orchestration. If you are building something that needs to be solid and secure, I would be glad to help.

    Get in touch
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Credentials

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT)

Pursuing

Undergraduate study across software engineering, networking, cybersecurity, databases, operating systems and modern web technologies.

Certifications

GitHub Foundations

GitHub

Professional · 2025

Google Cloud Computing Foundations

Google Cloud

Professional · 2025

Cloudflare Fundamentals

Cloudflare

Professional · 2025

Competitions

  • Hack Astra CTFCybersecurity · The Hackers Community NepalRanked 80th of 450
  • Nutanix Capture The FlagCybersecurityParticipant
  • Digital Forensics HackathonCybersecurityParticipant
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Contact me

Interested in working together, or just want to say hello? Drop me a message.