Place of Assignment: NDRI Office, Manbhawan, Lalitpur
Duration: Five person months
Number of Requirement: 1

Qualification:

• At least 3 year of working experience in Python and Python based application development (standalone desktop application)
• At least M.Sc. degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent degree.

The consulting contract will be for 5 person months to under the following specific tasks and deliverables.

The specific tasks and deliverables will be as follows:

• Re-drafting or re-developing the user interface of WECCS Gen tool: Current user interface is not optimal in terms of user experience. IT/ Software engineer will review the existing codes and optimize / edit the codes for optimal user experience and redevelop the user interface.
• Refining the codes: The existing code as well as the codes that will be developed in the project for incorporating bias correction and statistical downscaling will be refined by the IT / Software engineer. This will include refining the codes for (a) efficiency and performance, (b) handling large files (like large climate file of approx. 3-4 GB per file), (c) parallel computation and streaming computation (by dividing into chunks of data) etc.
• Other tasks related to objective as necessary. Code should be free of bugs and errors.
• Unit testing of the codes: Software Developer / Engineer will carrycarry out testing of the codes.
• Other essential tasks related to the above tasks and objectives.