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Product designer and technology consultant. Twenty years across graphic and web design, front-end development, SEO, brand strategy and enterprise product design. The short version is on About; this is the record.

Experience

Product Designer (Consultant), Highstep Technologies, New Jersey, USA · May 2025 to present

Remote consulting engagement under contract.

• Leading the design and strategy for a new enterprise data operations platform: product direction, user experience, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Bridging design leadership with hands-on execution to deliver a scalable solution for enterprise clients.
• Ongoing technology consulting: UI/UX design, software development, website design and development, delivered fully remotely.

Founder, LastDoor · April 2006 to present

Design-driven technology practice: enterprise-grade Drupal and WordPress for international clients. Incorporated 2011. Day-to-day operations led by a dedicated CEO.

• Brand strategy, verbal and visual identity, web design and development, AI automation, and ongoing client support.
• Freelance design and development for international clients through Upwork: 81 completed contracts, 3,400+ hours delivered, a 5.0 rating across 71 client reviews.

Creative Designer Associate, Digital Max Solutions, Kathmandu · September 2007 to June 2009

Multimedia solutions, web design and development, e-commerce and graphic design company. Graphic, web and multimedia work across client projects, alongside running LastDoor.

CSS Developer, WebSearch Professional (P) Ltd, Kathmandu · February to August 2007

European IT outsourcing company. Web design from initial concept and strategy through evaluation, improvement and final delivery, with Photoshop, HTML, XHTML, CSS and Dreamweaver.

Generalist: graphic, web, SEO and business development · April 2000 to March 2006

Began as a graphic designer at a printing company. Expanded into web design, front-end development, SEO and digital marketing.

Worked with international teams at Best Commerce Tools (US) and Tarsus plc (UK, now part of Informa). Later shifted toward business development: finding opportunities, pitching, building client relationships.

Entrepreneurial ventures

• Aurum Orbit: co-founder, 2024.
• Neptees, Kathmandu: co-founder. Graphic tees made in Nepal, neptees.com.
• Idealaya, Kathmandu: co-founder, 2012. Web design and digital marketing agency; publisher of the BattiGayo and Medibook apps.
• Last Door Solutions, Kathmandu: founder, 2011.
• Nepal Made Crafts: founder, 2012 to 2017. Online shop for handmade products from Nepal, felt and craft goods, retail and wholesale; branding and print for the Hike for Nepal campaign (2015) (archived site, 2012 · Facebook).
• Sampression: co-founder. Free WordPress themes on WordPress.org.

Teaching

The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Web Design in Figma, free course in Nepali, 7 parts · 2020

Recorded from a live Zoom training series I ran during the lockdown for more than 500 participants, so people could use that time to learn a real skill and earn with it. The material still holds; it is on YouTube, alongside recorded front-end and design lectures and workshops: the 4NCC01 Web Technologies playlist (Git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript), the Learn Git and GitHub playlist, and workshops such as Learn how to install Git, VS Code and the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Lecturer, Herald College Kathmandu · February 2022 to January 2023

University of Wolverhampton (UK) partner institution, BSc (Hons) Computer Science.

• Module leader for Human-Computer Interaction.
• Lectured and delivered various modules; prepared lesson plans and study guides.
• Worked within international university rules, academic and administrative.

Part-time Lecturer, Herald College Kathmandu · March to June 2021

Lectured various modules of the BSc programme alongside consulting work.

Final Year Project Supervisor (Multimedia), Islington College, Kathmandu · December 2020 to December 2025

London Metropolitan University (UK) partner institution. Supervised final-year projects for BSc Multimedia students across five annual cycles.

Education

• MSc with Merit, Information Technology and Applied Security, London Metropolitan University (UK), taught with Islington College, Kathmandu. Part-time, 2020 to 2024. Cybersecurity, big data and analytics; projects in banking security, data warehousing and health-data analytics.
• BSc with Upper Second Class Honours, Multimedia Technologies, London Metropolitan University (UK), studies administered by Islington College, Kathmandu. 2011 to 2014, awarded July 2014.
• Diploma in Design Communication, Graphics and Advertising, Cavendish College London, 2009 to 2010. First year of multimedia studies, continued to the BSc at Islington College.
• Higher Secondary Education (10+2), Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Memorial H.S. School, Kathmandu, 2006.
• Psychosocial Counselor course, CTEVT, Nepal, in progress.

Licences and certifications

• Professional Certificate: Human-Computer Interaction, Georgia Institute of Technology (edX), May 2023. UX research and needfinding, prototyping and rapid iteration, and related HCI competencies.
• Early professional training, PUD Computer Training and Service Center, Kathmandu, 2003 to 2004: Diploma in Webpage Designing; Windows with Applications.

Core skills

Enterprise product design and strategy; UX research and prototyping; design systems; AI automation in enterprise workflows; enterprise CMS (Drupal, WordPress); front-end engineering; security-minded design.

Selected projects and open source

See products for the full list: Mano, Mano Atlas, inkwell, BattiGayo (iOS, 2012 to 2018), Medibook, and the Sampression themes on WordPress.org (Sampression Lite, Naya Lite, Finedine). Open-source theme contributor on WordPress.org since 2012; member of the Drupal.org community since 2010.

Community

Organising team member, WordCamp Kathmandu 2017 and 2018. Platinum sponsor of the first-ever WordCamp Nepal (2012) through Idealaya. Ongoing WordPress community sponsorship and contributions through Last Door Solutions.

Languages

Nepali (native) · English (full professional proficiency; postgraduate education completed in English) · Hindi (proficient speaker).