WORLD MAP · THE LONG VERSION
six-and-a-half years at one company.
five different titles.
The internship that was supposed to be two months. The associate role that lasted a year. The senior years that turned into the lead chair. Here's the whole climb, in order, with the bullets you'd want on LinkedIn and the flavor you wouldn't.
WORLD 1-5YOU ARE HERE
Lead Engineer
Jan 2025 → presentLeapfrog Technology, Inc. · Kathmandu, Nepal
“Now the meetings come with my name on the calendar.”
- Lead technical direction, architecture, and delivery across multiple products and cross-functional teams.
- Designed real-time voice-to-voice AI assistants on Gemini Live for customer engagement and service automation.
- Drove migrations of third-party scheduling and workflow platforms to in-house systems — lower cost, more control.
- Introduced conversational-AI and intelligent-process-automation initiatives across customer service workflows.
- Drove architecture decisions across scalability, reliability, security, and long-term business impact.
- Mentored engineers across experience levels; led system-design discussions, code reviews, and technical planning.
WORLD 1-4CLEARED
Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2022 → Dec 2024Leapfrog Technology, Inc. · Kathmandu, Nepal
“The 'senior' is the part that gets you copied on more emails.”
- Owned analysis, design, development, deployment, and maintenance of medium-scale projects end-to-end.
- Wrote modular, reusable code via TDD, code reviews, and best-practice enforcement across the team.
- Drove architectural decisions with technology experts; kept the documentation actually current.
- Owned project risk analysis and root-cause reviews; automated CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
- Mentored junior engineers, shared knowledge across teams, and helped run engineering rituals.
WORLD 1-3CLEARED
Software Engineer
Feb 2021 → Nov 2022Leapfrog Technology, Inc. · Kathmandu, Nepal
“Stopped being scared of merge conflicts.”
- Independently shipped small-to-medium-scale projects: analysis, dev, deploy, maintain.
- Built RESTful APIs, kept technical docs current, ran code reviews with intent.
- Automated deploys, integrated CI, and did manual ops when CI inevitably refused to.
- Continuous research on new tech — adopted and rolled into projects where it actually moved the needle.
WORLD 1-2CLEARED
Associate Software Engineer
Dec 2019 → Nov 2020Leapfrog Technology, Inc. · Kathmandu, Nepal
“Learned that 'works on my machine' is a confession, not a defense.”
- Built web applications across the JavaScript stack — ReactJS, Node.js, friends.
- Engaged in code review on principles, patterns, and problem-solving.
- Followed (and started shaping) the team's coding standards and working culture.
WORLD 1-1CLEARED
Software Engineering Intern
Oct 2019 → Nov 2019Leapfrog Technology, Inc. · Kathmandu, Nepal
“The two months that turned into six and a half years.”
- Built pixel-perfect UIs from PSDs and learned the ABCs of UI/UX.
- Wrote mini-games in JS from scratch — gravity, collisions, the joy of `requestAnimationFrame`.
- Found out I liked this whole 'getting paid to write code' thing.
BONUS STAGE
education
- BSc (Hons) Computer ScienceUniversity of Wolverhampton · Herald College, Kathmandu · 2018–2021
- High School Diploma · ScienceNew Horizon College · Kathmandu · 2016–2018
BONUS STAGE
certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — AssociateAmazon Web Services · 2024 · verify
- TypeScript for Professionals — 2022 EditionUdemy · 2022