wlctl
190 starsA terminal Wi-Fi manager for Linux over NetworkManager's D-Bus API, with WPA Enterprise, hotspot mode and QR sharing. On crates.io.
Rust · Ratatui · D-Bus · NetworkManager
Aashish Thapa
I build software where hardware, the operating system and the network meet.
Systems and software engineer at Arroyodev, building Illumibot end to end: embedded Linux images, over-the-air updates, the device command plane and the cloud behind a fleet of projector controllers.
Computer science major, math minor, at the University of Southern Mississippi, graduating December 2026. Python by default, Rust when it has to be small and fast. I write about how the systems I build behave and fail.
Experience
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2025 – now
Systems & Software Engineer · Arroyodev
Embedded Linux to cloud on a four-engineer team, for a product with about 3,000 devices in the field and 10k+ app users.
- Rewrote the fleet's device agent from Node.js to Python asyncio, cutting the time to support a new device from about a week to under a day.
- Ship Yocto images with systemd and Mender OTA, with fleet telemetry that turns field debugging from days into hours.
- Built distributed inference workers for ComfyUI and Stable Diffusion over NATS JetStream.
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2024 – 2025
Undergraduate Research Assistant · University of Southern Mississippi
Fingerprinted IoT devices from their network traffic with ML classifiers on the IoT-23 dataset. This later became lanscope.
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2023 – 2026
B.S. Computer Science, minor in Mathematics · University of Southern Mississippi
4.0 GPA, graduating December 2026.
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2022 – 2023
Web Developer Intern · Islington College, Kathmandu
Built and maintained the college's web interfaces and internal tools.
Projects
grad-assistant
2025A Corrective-RAG agent that answers graduate admissions questions from USM's Graduate Bulletin, with an LLM judge that caches only faithful answers. Used over web, CLI and email.
Python · LangGraph · Qdrant · FastAPI · Llama 4
lanscope
crates.ioPassive IoT device fingerprinting: eBPF XDP hooks capture discovery traffic, and an ONNX classifier flags devices that start behaving differently.
Rust · eBPF (Aya) · ONNX · SQLite
edged
v0.1.0An OpenTelemetry agent for embedded Linux that turns MQTT and NATS traffic into OTLP, in a 2.2 MB static binary. Benchmarks.
Rust · OpenTelemetry · NATS
mender-sdk-python
2025A typed, async Python SDK for the Mender over-the-air update platform.
Python · httpx · asyncio
flock
crates.ioAn SSH fleet manager for embedded devices: finds them without root, remembers them by MAC address, and runs commands on many at once.
Rust · tokio · SQLite
craftwright
2026Senior-engineer discipline for AI coding agents, plus a fresh-context reviewer that sees only the diff.
Claude Code · agent skills · Markdown
sev1
2026 · sourceA multiplayer incident game for on-call engineers: get paged, debug a simulated outage in 3D, fix it from a shell, write the postmortem.
TypeScript · React Three Fiber · Cloudflare Workers
Smaller tools: intent (offline semantic shell autosuggestion), ttr and dfl on crates.io, FireTracker, and more on GitHub.
Open source
Fixes I've contributed to projects I use.
- clap-rs/clap #6454Help output now renders partially-optional values with brackets. I picked up a fix that had stalled twice and added the missing regression test.17k stars
- hyperium/hyper-util #315The proxy CONNECT tunnel now parses the proxy's response properly instead of matching a prefix, which had accepted malformed statuses like
HTTP/1.1 2000. - HKUDS/OpenHarness #39Fixed a TUI confirmation dialog that ignored keyboard input on WSL and Windows.16k stars
- alibaba/zvec #145Fixed the build under CMake 3.31+ by moving the antlr4 policy from OLD to NEW.16k stars
- zackb/tether #263Inline replies to message notifications in the Linux iPhone-continuity client.1.5k stars
- ostreedev/ostree #3650Capped exponential backoff with full jitter between HTTP fetch retries, cancellable mid-wait, so clients don't hammer a mirror in lockstep.1.7k stars
- huggingface/candle #3780Corrected a batched causal mask that under-sized its tensor storage.21k stars
Writing
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Three minutes to boot, two of them in Python imports
A step-by-step method for profiling the boot of a small Linux board full of Python services, and what it found on ours.
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You might not need supervisord
Our devices ran two process supervisors, and one of them recovered by calling the other.
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One frame off: how we keep a wall of projectors in sync
Six architectures in five months, each one right until a real show broke it.
Contact
Email is the fastest way to reach me: aashishthapa520@gmail.com. I read everything and usually reply within a day or two. You can also leave a note here.