4 years
active-duty engineering
Built discipline, execution habits, and mission-first thinking in the Air Force.
Portfolio · AI Systems · Product Engineering
Building resilient software, practical AI tools, and mission-driven products.
I’m Tenzing Sherpa, a Princeton computer science student and former Air Force engineer. I work at the intersection of infrastructure, applied AI, and human-centered product design, with a particular interest in systems that need to stay useful when the environment is messy.
Open to research and engineering opportunities Princeton CS + Neuroscience Previously AWS, USAF
Selected profile
Engineer with product taste and field-tested constraints.
3x
AWS internships
Worked across identity, marketplace, and infrastructure-oriented product teams.
AI x community
current focus
Exploring resilient AI systems and tools that serve underrepresented communities.
Why this portfolio matters
Work shaped by discipline, curiosity, and context.
This site should answer three questions fast: what I build, how I think, and why the work is worth trusting.
Military and infrastructure experience
Systems under pressure
I gravitate toward environments where reliability matters, constraints are real, and clear thinking beats buzzwords.
From idea to shipped interface
Product with substance
I like building products that are legible to users, grounded in outcomes, and technically defensible underneath.
Community, language, and education
Human-centered technical work
The projects that matter most to me usually connect engineering to culture, access, and long-term usefulness.
Selected work
Projects with a point of view.
2025Sherpa Language Translation App
A language preservation platform designed to make Sherpa more accessible to the next generation.
Combines translation, education, and cultural continuity in a product rooted in lived context.
Next.jsReactPostgreSQLAWSVercel
2024GeoMaze
A geography game that turns global street views into a puzzle-based exploration experience.
Built as an interactive consumer-facing product with gameplay, maps, and real-world discovery.
ReactGoogle Maps APINode.jsMongoDB
2021One Giant Leap
A mission-control concept for lunar collaboration and real-time operations planning.
Focused on systems thinking, communication, and high-stakes interface design for complex workflows.
BlazorAzureSignalRCosmos DB
2023Coding for Change
A grassroots teaching initiative aimed at widening access to software careers in Nepal.
Blends technical instruction, local leadership, and social impact through hands-on mentorship.
EducationCommunityLeadership
Writing
Technical notes and field reflections.
2025-01-03
One Step at a Time on Lobuche (6,119 m)
Six days from NYC to the summit, and a reminder that progress is built one deliberate step at a time.
2024-1-9
Coding for Change: Empowering Nepal's Youths Through Coding Education
How a grant from the Class of 1978 Foundation enabled a transformative coding education project in Kathmandu Global School.
2024-1-9
Journey to Dumji: An Adventure from Kathmandu to Pangboche
The beginning of my journey to the heart of the Himalayas for the Dumji Festival.
Approach
How I like to work.
Build for clarity
Interfaces should make complex systems easier to understand, not more impressive-looking.
Respect the operational layer
Good software accounts for deployment realities, coordination friction, and the cost of failure.
Make the work mean something
The strongest portfolio pieces are not just polished. They solve a real problem for a real group of people.
Now
Currently focused on AI resilience, neuroscience, and tools that travel well across contexts.
I’m especially interested in research collaborations, product engineering roles, and ambitious builds that need both strong systems judgment and real user empathy.
Best fit