Tashi Sherpa

Associate Software Engineer @ The New York Times

Building and maintaining scalable messaging systems for The New York Times.

Experience

Jan 2025 – Present
The New York Times
Associate Software Engineer
New York, NY
Building and maintaining scalable messaging platform for The New York Times, using Go, Terraform, Google Cloud and AWS.
Sept 2024 – Nov 2024
The New York Times
Software Engineer Apprentice
New York, NY
Worked on NYT’s internal CRM with Next.js, TypeScript, tRPC, and SCSS. Re-architected Advanced Search for extensibility and shipped an extension for PayPal invoice lookups that improved support for customer using PayPal as a payment method.
July 2024 – Aug 2024
West X East
Software Engineer Intern
Remote
Built a JavaScript PDF parsing and filtering pipeline with PDF.js for spec sheets, and led a Three.js 3D product configurator POC to replace a third-party rendering solution.
Jan 2024 – July 2024
Halfgram
Software Engineer Intern
Remote
Shipped engagement features for a React Native social app with Node.js and Firebase, including real-time messaging and Firestore batch optimizations that noticeably improved load time.

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn, NY

Sept 2024

Relevant coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms & Analysis, Introduction to Software Engineering, Human–Computer Interaction.

Languages, frameworks, cloud platforms, and everyday tooling — aligned with what I use on the job and in projects.