Profile
SANDESH
CHAPAGAIN
Infrastructure Engineer · Rome, Italy
First-year Engineering Sciences at Tor Vergata and co-founder of Ditch. I designed and built the complete technical stack: RTMP relay engine, WebRTC pipeline, canvas compositor, real-time server, REST API, and browser studio. One engineer. No shortcuts.
Before writing production code I ran growth systems for BarcaBuzz — a football community I took from zero to 100K+ followers without paid spend. The key insight: save rate predicts long-tail reach better than immediate engagement. Optimizing for the right metric changes what you build. That principle now drives every architectural decision in Ditch.
Looking for early-stage infrastructure and product engineering roles where the problems are genuinely hard and the systems actually need to work.
Timeline
Jan 2025 — Now
Co-founder & Engineer
Ditch
Designed and built the complete technical stack alone: RTMP relay engine, WebRTC pipeline, canvas compositor, real-time server, REST API, and browser studio. Monorepo with four apps and two shared packages.
May 2026
Competition Entry
Startcup Lazio 2026
Full business submission via Tor Vergata. Executive summary, 12-slide pitch deck with speaker script, Business Model Canvas, market sizing, competitive analysis, revenue model, financial projections.
Dec 2024 — Now
B.Sc Engineering Sciences
Tor Vergata, Rome
Calculus, linear algebra, algorithms and data structures, C systems programming (process management, file I/O, memory, BSD sockets). Year 1 of 3.
Jun – Nov 2024
Network Support Intern
Intrasoft Networking Solutions, Nepal
Diagnosed and resolved connectivity issues across client systems. Monitored with Wireshark and Nagios, configured routers, switches, and VoIP across multiple sites.
Jul 2023 – Jun 2024
Marketing & Growth Manager
Pathik Gyan Niketan, Nepal
Managed digital presence across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Ran Meta Ads and Google Ads campaigns with ROI tracking via Google Analytics. Produced newsletters and website copy.
Aug 2022 – Jun 2023
Growth Systems Lead
BarcaBuzz
100K+ followers, zero paid spend, approximately 12 months from zero. Structured content pipeline, per-post tracking, A/B testing across format variables, engagement feedback loops.
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