Structural & earthquake engineer · Kathmandu, Nepal (UTC+5:45)
Bijay Karki
Engineering for a planet that never holds still.
Rendered from Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · NASA Black Marble
From the plate to the peaks: the forces I build tools for.
Rendered from Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · NASA Black Marble
Work · four projects
Index- EarthQuakeLiveA live earthquake explorer in the browser: plain-language summaries and the full technical record.
- StructureNBC Compliance Tool for ETABSChecks a live ETABS model against NBC 105:2025 clause by clause and writes a PDF compliance report.
- WaterHydroReconRun-of-river hydropower screening: click a river, get a scheme with its uncertainty and sources attached.
- AirWindFlowReal-time indoor airflow on the GPU: a D3Q19 lattice Boltzmann solver with LES, written in C#.
About
I am a structural and earthquake engineer in Kathmandu, Nepal, with a master's in earthquake engineering from the Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University. My work runs from earthquake-resistant design and BIM to design automation with the ETABS and Revit APIs, and the tools I build around them: QuakeLive, an NBC compliance checker for ETABS, HydroRecon and WindFlow.
I start from open data and the physics behind it, such as earthquake catalogues and waveforms, river flow and terrain, and building codes. Then I build the tool around them. Where a number is modelled rather than measured, I say so, and I name the source.
Education
Certifications
Revit Training Program
Aron Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Advanced Structural Modeling with ETABS and SAP2000
Skill Corner · 2021
Seismic Design Standards
Department of Urban Development and Building Construction · 2024
Machine Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI / Coursera · 2025
Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
Google / Coursera · 2025
Data Science and Machine Learning with Python
Vrit Technologies · 2024