Data Science  ·  AI Engineering

Krish Thapa

I build and test AI agents that save businesses time and cost, and communicate how they work to both technical teams and business leaders.

B.S. Data Science, University of North Texas, May 2027  ·  Dallas–Fort Worth, TX

How I buildclick a step
Every system I build moves through these four stages. Click one to see what I focus on.
38% → 95%answer accuracy after evals caught two silent bugs in my RAG agent
94.7%cache hit rate on a semantic layer that cuts repeat LLM API calls
25%less manual reporting from the Python pipeline I built at Valero
About

I'm Krish Thapa. I was born in Nepal, raised in Dallas, and grew up on the basketball court, which is still my passion.

I'm completing a B.S. in Data Science at the University of North Texas (May 2027) and have already applied it in a business setting as a data intern at Valero Energy.

In my projects I replicate systems companies actually run, so each one produces something I can reuse in a real workflow. My focus is multi-agent workflows, evaluations and judgment calls, LangGraph, SQL, and the tradeoffs behind agent design.

How I work

  • Team first. I do my best work with others, and many of my strongest ideas started as a teammate's question.
  • Curious by default. I ask questions early to understand the real problem before I build, which saves rework later.
  • Clear communicator. I translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences, a skill I sharpened in door-to-door sales and customer service.
Goal

Modernize manual workflows

Bring AI workflow engineering to teams and industries where day-to-day operations are still slow and manual, and deliver measurable gains in time, cost and accuracy.

Discipline

Evaluate before deploying

Run evaluations, make the judgment calls on when an agent should act or ask, and weigh cost, speed and accuracy tradeoffs in agentic systems.

Role

Bridge leadership and engineering

Explain what a system does and why it pays off to executives, then walk engineers through every model, step and tradeoff, keeping both groups aligned.

Skills

What I work with

Click a skill to see which projects use it.

Projects

Systems I've built

Each one replicates something a real business runs. Click any step in a diagram to see what it does.

Explain it for
    Experience

    Where I've worked

    Data roles taught me the tools. Sales and service jobs taught me the people side, which is most of the job in tech.

    Data & analyticsData + salesPeople & service
    Education

    What I'm learning

    University of North Texas  ·  Denton, TX

    Bachelor of Science in Data Science

    Graduating May 2027  ·  Dean's List 2026

    3.9GPA
    2027Graduation
    Mentorship

    Amrit Godar

    Meta · former Director of Data Analysis, KPMG

    I meet regularly with Amrit, who has led data analysis work at KPMG and now works at Meta. Much of what I know about how real teams scope, build and ship data work comes from those conversations, and they shape which projects I choose to build.

    Certifications

    Credentials

    AnthropicCompleted

    AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations

    Anthropic's course on working with AI effectively, efficiently, ethically and safely, built around four competencies: Delegation, Description, Discernment and Diligence.

    What I learned: deciding which parts of a task to hand to AI, describing them precisely, critically checking the output, and taking responsibility for what ships.

    AnthropicCompleted

    Claude 101

    Anthropic's introduction to using Claude for real work, from everyday tasks to projects, files and multi-step workflows.

    What I learned: how to structure requests and context so Claude produces reliable results, and how to turn one-off prompts into repeatable workflows.

    IBM · CourseraOct 2025

    Python for Data Science, AI & Development

    IBM's course on Python fundamentals for data and AI work.

    What I learned: Python data structures, pandas and NumPy for analysis, and working with APIs and web data. The base I built my later pipelines and agents on.

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    IBM · CourseraOct 2025

    Excel Basics for Data Analysis

    IBM's course on analyzing data in spreadsheets.

    What I learned: cleaning and wrangling raw data, and summarizing it with pivot tables, filters and formulas. I used these directly in my Valero and D&K PowerWash reporting.

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    Contact

    Let's talk about what your team is building.

    I'm looking for full-time data and AI roles starting summer 2027, in Dallas–Fort Worth or remote.

    NameKrish Thapa
    Emailkrishthapadata@gmail.com