Work
Here are the roles I've worked in, from internships and research assistantships to open-source contributions.
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Norplex-Micarta, Postville, IA · May 2026 – Present
Data Analyst Intern
Data Analytics ERP Systems Procurement Automation🚚 Tracking procurement costs, delivery, and vendor performance with ERP data
🐼 Building reports and dashboards with Power BI, Excel, and Pandas
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Magma Core, The Linux Foundation
Open Source Contributor – LFX Mentorship
Open Source Magma Linux Foundation Mobile Networks📡 Contributing code to an open-source mobile core network
📶 Working on software for building and deploying mobile networks
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Various open-source organizations
Open Source Contributor
Open Source Collaboration CommunityCheck Out →🔀 Contributing pull requests and fixes to projects such as AI2, Anthropic, Basecamp, Kiali, and LingDojo
🌍 Working on software used by developers around the world
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Luther College, Decorah, IA
Marketing Assistant & Web Maintainer
Web Development Content Editorial UI✍️ Writing press releases, articles, newsletters, and social media content
💻 Maintaining web resources used by 1,400+ computer science students
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University of Idaho – Data Analytics & Vision Lab (IAMP)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Python Scikit-learn PostgreSQL OpenCV Research🌾 Processing 50,000+ agricultural sensor records with Python and PostgreSQL
🛰️ Training crop-yield models and building computer vision pipelines
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Chain For Change – Project Wings to Dreams, Nepal
IT Technician & Volunteer
3D Printing Blender OpenCV Education👁️ Designing tactile learning tools for visually impaired students
🧩 Building physical prototypes with Blender, OpenCV, and 3D printing
Projects
Things I've built for fun and for learning, while playing around with new technologies, frameworks, and libraries.
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Open-source robot fleet copilot
Exomantle
Python Rust Robotics Next.jsCheck Out →🤖 Answering plain-English questions about robot fleets with diagnostics and charts
🛡️ Replaying incidents and gating actions behind dry-runs and human approval
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Curated list of Summer 2027 and off-season tech internships
Summer 2027 Internships
Curation Open Source CommunityCheck Out →📋 Maintaining a list of Summer 2027 and off-season tech internships in the US
⭐ Covering software, data, ML, hardware, quant, and product roles, trusted by 900+ stars
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Reinforcement learning for robotic needle steering
Surgical Needle Insertion RL Environment
Python Reinforcement Learning PPO Stable-Baselines3 SimulationCheck Out →🩺 Training reinforcement learning agents for robotic needle insertion
🧬 Simulating tissue mechanics, force, strain, and blood vessel proximity
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Old personal website
sandeshbhandari.com
Next.js React Tailwind CSS ContentfulCheck Out →🌐 Built my old website using Next.js, Tailwind, and Contentful
✍️ Published blog posts through a headless CMS with syntax highlighting
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Reproducing the grokking paper on a CPU-only laptop
nanogrokking
Python PyTorch Machine Learning InterpretabilityCheck Out →🧠 Reproducing grokking from the original paper with no GPU and half a gigabyte of memory
📉 Watching a transformer trade memorization for trigonometry under weight decay
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Browser-based infinite driving experience
INFINI8
Three.js JavaScript Spotify Web SDK Procedural GenerationCheck Out →🏎️ Building an endless 3D driving world with procedural terrain and physics
🎵 Adding Spotify, live lyrics, weather, and multiple camera modes
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Pure CSS 3D animation
Bee My Baby
CSS 3D Animation HTML JavaScriptCheck Out →🧱 Building a 3D animation using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
🐝 Animating a bee and its environment entirely with CSS transforms
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Movie recommendation engine
FilmRecs
Python Scikit-learn Pandas TF-IDF MLCheck Out →🎬 Building a movie recommender across 3,652 films
🎯 Using Pandas, TF-IDF, and cosine similarity to rank recommendations
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Fake academic CS paper generator
Nonsense CS Research Gen
Python ReportLab Matplotlib PDF GenerationCheck Out →🧪 Generating realistic academic papers from procedural data and text
📄 Creating two-column PDFs with charts, tables, and references
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Archive a Medium author's full back catalog
medium2pdf-scraper
Python Playwright PDF Web ScrapingCheck Out →🗃️ Archiving every article from a Medium author's profile
📎 Automating scraping, PDF rendering, merging, and bookmarking
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Real-time posture monitor with webcam
Posture Coach
Python OpenCV MediaPipe Flask Computer VisionCheck Out →🧍 Tracking posture in real time using webcam computer vision
📐 Scoring posture, sending alerts, and visualizing weekly history
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Bulk download from any public subreddit
Subreddit Image Downloader
Node.js JavaScript CLI Reddit APICheck Out →👽 Building a CLI to bulk download media from public subreddits
🗂️ Handling galleries, filters, videos, GIFs, and zip packaging