Bridging data science & software engineering —
delivering solutions that make a measurable difference.
About Me
A technologist who builds with purpose
I'm Lilakant (Lil) Pokhrel, a London-based Data Scientist and Full-Stack Developer who graduated top of my MSc cohort at York St John University. I hold two Distinction degrees and bring 4+ years of hands-on engineering and data experience across Nepal and the UK.
My work spans from building production ReactJS & Django applications at Pearl Infotech to designing Power BI dashboards for national insurance organisations — always finding the intersection of clean code and meaningful data.
Top Achievement
MSc Data Science — Distinction
York St John University · 2024 · Subject Prize Winner 🏆
Current Roles
Asst. Sales Manager + Data Analyst
Betfred UK & Rastriya Jeewan Beema (Remote)
Location & Availability
London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Open to full-time roles & collaborations
Languages
English · Nepali · Hindi
All spoken fluently
Capabilities
Skills & Technologies
A broad toolkit built through real production work across data science & web development.
Programming
Web Stack
ML & AI
Data & Databases
Cloud & DevOps
Analytics & Viz
Portfolio Highlights
Featured Projects
001 · MSc Research
🏆 Distinction Research
Text Summarisation with Deep Learning Integration
Advanced NLP pipeline combining transformer architectures (BERT, T5) for automatic text summarisation. Researched extractive vs abstractive approaches with ROUGE/BLEU benchmarking across domain-specific corpora. MSc Applied Research Project — York St John University 2024.
002 · ML
Loan Approval Prediction
End-to-end ML pipeline for loan classification using XGBoost, SHAP values for interpretability, and feature engineering.
003 · Full-Stack
Hamro Bazar — E-Commerce Platform
Full-featured MERN stack marketplace with product listings, cart management, order processing, and admin analytics dashboard.