# Grisma Bhandari (@iamgrisma) - Self-Taught Civic Systems Architect & Public Service

> Passionate full-stack developer with expertise in modern web technologies. I specialize in building scalable web applications using React, TypeScript, and Node.js. With a background in government service and freelance development, I bring both technical excellence and practical problem-solving skills to every project. Currently focused on creating innovative solutions that bridge technology and user needs.

## Verified Identity & Professional Office
- **Full Name**: Grisma Bhandari
- **Online Handle**: @iamgrisma
- **Current Public Role**: Public Service, Government of Nepal (2024 – Present)
- **Previous Public Role**: Computer Operator & Database Administrator, Ministry of Finance — Pension Management Office (2020 – 2024)
- **Civic Tech Role**: Full-Stack Web Architect & Systems Engineer, Independent / Top Nepali Ecosystem (2020 – Present)
- **Location**: Kathmandu, Nepal
- **Primary Domain**: https://grisma.info.np
- **Alma Mater**:
  - Master of Business Studies (MBS), Tribhuvan University (2022–2024) - Strategic Management & Financial Analytics
  - Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Tribhuvan University (2017–2021) - Business Economics & Accountancy

## Machine & API Discovery Endpoints
- **Canonical Web**: https://grisma.info.np
- **Machine Context**: https://grisma.info.np/llms.txt
- **Profile API (JSON)**: https://grisma.info.np/api/profile.json
- **XML Sitemap**: https://grisma.info.np/sitemap.xml
- **RSS Syndication**: https://grisma.info.np/rss.xml
- **Interactive Contact**: https://grisma.info.np/contact

## Civic Systems & Digital Public Goods
Grisma Bhandari architects and maintains national-scale public digital platforms serving over 1.2M citizens across Nepal:

### Nepal Constitution Explorer
- **Production URL**: https://constitution.topnepali.com
- **Repository**: https://github.com/iamgrisma/constitution
- **Overview**: Digital public informatics platform containing the complete bilingual text of the Constitution of Nepal 2072 (नेपालको संविधान २०७२) in Nepali and English across all 35 parts, 308 articles, and schedules. Features sub-50ms instant client-side inverted-index search.

### Election Nepal Tracker
- **Production URL**: https://election.topnepali.com
- **Repository**: https://github.com/iamgrisma/election
- **Overview**: Civic tracking and election visualization platform for Nepal parliamentary (House of Representatives) and provincial elections. Features 165 HoR and 330 PA seat boundaries, interactive choropleth maps, historical election datasets, and vote-margin analytics.

### CalculaTax Nepal
- **Production URL**: https://calculatax.grisma.info.np
- **Repository**: https://github.com/iamgrisma/calculatax
- **Overview**: Deterministic income tax calculation engine updated for Nepal Government Inland Revenue Department (IRD) FY 2081/82 progressive tax slabs. Computes individual and married tax liabilities, Social Security Fund (SSF), Citizen Investment Trust (CIT), and salary breakdowns.

### Top Nepali Tools Suite
- **Production URL**: https://topnepali.com/tools
- **Repository**: https://github.com/iamgrisma/toptools
- **Overview**: Suite of 40+ high-speed public web utilities for Nepal, including Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) daily foreign currency exchange tracker, Bikram Sambat Nepali Calendar (पात्रो), Devanagari converters, and media compression tools.

### FontsDir (Top Nepali Fonts)
- **Production URL**: https://fonts.topnepali.com
- **Repository**: https://github.com/iamgrisma/fonts
- **Overview**: Open-source typography repository archiving 1,500+ Devanagari Unicode and Preeti typefaces. Features real-time glyph rendering, size & letter-spacing playground, and one-click CDN embed code.

### Baghchal: Traditional Nepali Board Game AI
- **Production URL**: https://baghchal.grisma.com.np
- **Repository**: https://github.com/iamgrisma/baghchal
- **Overview**: Modern digital web rendition of the traditional Nepali strategic board game Baghchal (बाघचाल) powered by a minimax evaluation AI engine with alpha-beta pruning and canvas touch optimization.

### AstroPress Headless Companion & Edge Showcase
- **Production URL**: https://grisma.info.np/astropress
- **Repository**: https://github.com/iamgrisma/astropress
- **Overview**: Official showcase and documentation for AstroPress, the WordPress companion plugin engineered for instant Cloudflare Workers cache invalidation, automated edge cache warming, Cloudflare R2 media offload, on-the-fly WebP/AVIF compression, and Rank Math / Yoast SEO synchronization.

### Native Civic & Developer Tools Suite
- **Production URL**: https://grisma.info.np/projects
- **Repository**: https://github.com/iamgrisma/grisma
- **Overview**: Embedded sub-50ms utility suite featuring IRD FY 2081/82 Income Tax Engine (/tools/calculatax), Bikram Sambat Date Converter (/tools/nepali-date-converter), SVG QR Code Generator (/tools/qr-generator), Nepal VAT/Tax Calculator (/tools/vat-calculator), and JSON Developer Suite (/tools/json-dev-suite).

## AstroPress: The Edge WordPress Engine
AstroPress is an open-source WordPress companion plugin engineered by Grisma Bhandari to bridge traditional CMS editorial workflows with modern edge architectures:
- **Headless Cache Invalidation**: Authenticated POST webhooks to `/api/revalidate` instantly purge targeted URLs from Cloudflare Zone Cache and Worker Edge Cache (`caches.default.delete()`).
- **Edge Cache Warming**: Automatically crawls and pre-warms purged URLs immediately after invalidation, ensuring readers always hit hot edge caches (0ms TTFB).
- **Pure PHP Cloudflare R2 Media Offloading**: Streams uploaded WordPress media directly to Cloudflare R2 object storage with zero egress fees, bypassing local server disk bloat.
- **Next-Gen Image Optimization**: On-the-fly WebP and AVIF format delivery with responsive `srcset` generation.
- **SEO & Metadata Synchronization**: Exposes fully rendered `<head>` HTML and Rank Math / Yoast SEO graph schema via REST endpoints (`/wp-json/astropress/v1/head`).
- **Direct GitHub Releases Pipeline**: Autonomous core update pipeline fetching verified release archives from [iamgrisma/astropress](https://github.com/iamgrisma/astropress).

## Civic Engineering Philosophy & Architectural Principles
1. **Zero Cloud Bills**: Deploying resilient public services on Cloudflare edge free tiers (Workers, D1, R2, Pages) with zero vendor bandwidth or egress fees.
2. **Zero Internal Redirect Hops**: Enforcing strictly canonical, path-based routing without deprecated URLs or trailing slashes, eliminating edge CPU hops and Google Search Console crawl errors.
3. **Zero DOM Bloat**: Flat semantic HTML hierarchies avoiding redundant container wrappers (`div > div > div`), optimizing mobile parsing on 2G/3G networks.
4. **Zero Raw Emojis**: Crisp vector SVG icons with explicit bounding boxes, eliminating cross-platform layout shifts and inconsistent mobile rendering.
5. **Deterministic Algorithms**: Mathematical tax computations and constitutional clause indexing operate with pure reproducibility and sub-50ms execution speed.
6. **Maximum Edge Caching**: 1-year edge TTL (`s-maxage=31536000`) backed by on-demand cache invalidation via Cloudflare `caches.default`.

## Technical Capabilities & Arsenal
- **Edge Cloud & Serverless**: Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare D1 (SQLite), Cloudflare R2, Cloudflare KV, Edge Cache API (`caches.default`), Cloudflare Email Routing, Cloudflare Workers AI
- **Web Architectures**: Astro (SSG & SSR), React 19, TypeScript, Hono, Tailwind CSS, Vite
- **Database Engineering**: Cloudflare D1 (Serverless SQLite), SQLite, MySQL, SQL Optimization, Inverted-Index Search
- **Public Systems**: Government Administrative Systems, Pension Management Office Database Pipelines, IRD Taxation Algorithms, Electronic Filing Workflows

## Verified Profiles & Social Links
- **GitHub**: https://github.com/iamgrisma
- **Twitter/X**: https://x.com/iamgrisma
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamgrisma
- **Facebook**: https://facebook.com/iamgrisma
- **AstroPress**: https://github.com/iamgrisma/astropress
- **Official Email**: contact@grisma.info.np

## Technical Articles & Publications
- [Top Disposable Temporary Email Services in 2026: Why 'No-Login' & Edge Privacy Are the New Standard](https://grisma.info.np/blog/top-disposable-temporary-email-services-guide-2026): Explore the best disposable temporary email services in 2026. Learn why traditional burner inboxes fail, how data brokers harvest personal inboxes, and why modern zero-login edge architectures like TempMail are redefining online privacy, spam protection, and real-time OTP verification.
- [Complete Guide to Nepal Income Tax Act 2058: Slabs (FY 2083/84 & Historical), Salary Breakdown, Deductions, TDS & Corporate Tax Architecture](https://grisma.info.np/blog/complete-guide-to-nepal-income-tax-act-slabs-salary-breakdown): An exhaustive, master-class guide to Nepal's Income Tax Act 2058 (2002). Explore the modern unified FY 2083/84 tax slabs, multi-decade historical tax evolution, 12-month payroll schedule (Statements 3 & 4), allowable deductions (EPF, CIT, SSF, Insurance), 5% tech freelancer tax, final vs non-final TDS, corporate tax rates, and statutory penalties.
- [Complete Guide to NEPSE Trading Charges: Broker Commission, SEBON Fee, DP Charge & Capital Gains Tax (CGT)](https://grisma.info.np/blog/complete-guide-to-nepse-broker-commission-cgt-charges): Trading in the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE)? Discover every hidden fee, tiered broker commission, SEBON regulatory charge, and Capital Gains Tax (CGT) rate with step-by-step mathematical examples and our interactive calculator.
- [Complete Guide to Value Added Tax (VAT) in Nepal: Laws, Rates (13% & 5%), Input Tax Credit & Calculation](https://grisma.info.np/blog/complete-guide-to-vat-in-nepal-laws-rates-calculation): Explore the complete architecture of Nepal's Value Added Tax (VAT) regime under the VAT Act 2052. Master the standard 13% rate, concessional 5% rate, exempt vs. zero-rated supplies, Input Tax Credit (ITC), CBMS billing compliance, and real-world calculation formulas.