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Tenpa Bhikshu a.k.a. Nicolas Pettican

> software engineer // Buddhist monk // aspiring scholar

༄༅what i'm doing now

building

Online platforms and initiatives to support the longevity of Buddhism. Currently leading the development of Offering Bowl, a platform that lets lay sponsors support monastics directly.

studying

Advanced Buddhist philosophy at the Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Institute in Bir, Himachal Pradesh, alongside academic research affiliated with Savitribai Phule Pune University.

practising

Monastic life. Fully ordained (Bhikshu) in the Mūlasarvāstivāda (Tibetan) tradition, living at the monastery year-round, unless I am in Pune or in a forest monastery in Thailand.

༄༅experience --log

2024–now Offering Bowl
Chairman and lead engineer of a sponsorship platform connecting Buddhist monastics with lay donors. TypeScript, Node.js, Vue, and AWS IaC.
2019–2022 Doc Cirrus GmbH Berlin
Team Lead / Senior Engineer on inSuite, a practice-management platform for German medical institutions. Led the containerisation and periphery web app development team.
2018–2019 MADANA Berlin
Head of Development at an early-stage privacy and data-analysis tech startup. Planned a healthcare pilot for privacy-enhancing analytics.
2017–2018 Unique Insights Manchester
Head of Development. Built a customer-understanding conversational app on ML APIs before LLMs became popular.