Alisha Budhathoki

Fintech arm of the IME Group, building capital-market, remittance and digital-wallet products, with partners including Global IME Bank, one of Nepal's largest banks.

• Lead a team of 15+ engineers across the capital-market, remittance and wallet product lines, owning technical direction, sprint planning, code review and engineering standards, and representing engineering with product, compliance and partner-bank stakeholders.
• Hire and grow the team: interview and select engineers, onboard new hires and mentor them into owning product areas, keeping delivery steady as the team scales.
• Architected the pluggable Flutter framework the products are built on, so one codebase ships as a standalone app and as drop-in modules inside partner apps on any native stack, with no platform rewrite per integration.
• Delivered the capital-market platform end to end: live NEPSE prices, screeners, IPO applications, portfolio tracking, the stock buy/sell order engine, margin trading and margin lending, shipped as GlobalSmart+ inside Global IME Bank's mobile banking app and built for regulatory compliance and auditability.
• Delivered the IME remittance service: send-money flows, beneficiary management, KYC and compliance checks, bank-deposit and cash-pickup payouts, and transfer tracking, built as a pluggable module so partner apps can offer remittance too.
• Shipped payments, transfers and the capital-market module in IME Pay, the IME Group's digital wallet, alongside security hardening, performance work and continuous feature releases.
• Made regulated releases safer by introducing test-driven development and a micro-frontend mobile strategy, reducing post-release defects and raising release confidence.
• Replaced polling with real-time Server-Sent Events for price ticks and transaction alerts, cutting latency on time-sensitive trades and reducing network load on customers' devices.
• Hardened security and performance with encrypted data at rest and in transit and secure authentication flows, contributing to growth in user acquisition and retention.

AI company building education and enterprise products for international markets.

• Shipped Fuse Classroom, a 28-module campus platform on web and mobile covering live classes, grades, attendance and student services, tuned for low-bandwidth networks, with role-aware authentication on AWS Cognito.
• Designed Squadery Connect, an HRM app with worklog approval workflows, audit history, leave requisitions and status-driven notifications, used daily by engineering squads.
• Re-architected legacy codebases onto SOLID, clean architecture, shortening feature turnaround and making the codebase easier to maintain.
• Interviewed candidates and mentored interns and new hires, setting the onboarding and code-review standards that kept quality steady as the team grew.

Software agency delivering mobile products for education and service clients.

• Delivered Smart GK Academy, an exam-preparation platform for banking-sector recruitment (Nepal Rastra Bank, RBB, NBL, ADBL), with payment-gated course access and social sign-in.
• Led the move from native Android to Flutter, building cross-platform modules for client projects on fast release cycles.

Digital agency publishing programming education content.

• Wrote programming tutorials for programming-techniques.com, and managed the site's SEO and ongoing maintenance.