I build products and the teams to solve hard problems. With 17+ years across ICT policy, large-scale software architecture, information security, and Big Data — from Apple Inc. to the Government of Nepal — I work where systems meet society. Now researching how power, capital, and discourse shape entrepreneurship.
I am a technology architect, national policy advisor, entrepreneur, and doctoral researcher based in Kathmandu. Over 17+ years I have built systems that matter — from the Identity Management platform at Apple serving all employees, vendors, and contractors, to conceptualizing Nepal's Integrated Emergency Response infrastructure.
My technical career spans Big Data and security architecture at Apple and Qualcomm. At Apple, I owned the Security Event Pipeline processing 250 TB of data every day. At Qualcomm, I led distributed teams across the USA, India, Mexico, and Latin America deploying VoIP-based telecom solutions globally.
In parallel, I have served as a committee member and working group participant across four Government of Nepal ministries — advising on emergency response systems, datacenter governance, ICT policy, and smart mobility infrastructure. I was the initiator of Nepal's Integrated Emergency Response System (IERS).
I am the founder of Sayapatri Tech Pvt. Ltd., building premier information security products for Nepali businesses. Between 2020 and 2021, I co-hosted 977podcast with Sanjay Rimal — 13 long-form episodes of thought-provoking conversation on Nepal's politics, society, culture, and identity, available on Apple Podcasts. Since 2023, I am enrolled as a PhD candidate at Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, studying entrepreneurship through the theoretical lenses of Foucault, Bourdieu, and Amartya Sen.
Technology without governance is chaos. Governance without technology is paralysis.
17+
Years of Experience
250TB
Daily Data — Apple Security Pipeline
4
Government of Nepal Advisory Roles
7
Published Research Papers
2023
PhD Enrolled — Tribhuvan University
2011
Writing on Technology Since
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Expertise
01
Systems Architecture
Large-scale software design from roadmap to production. Identity management, Big Data pipelines, security event platforms — built to process hundreds of terabytes daily at enterprise scale.
02
Information Security
Deep command of the security ecosystem: Identity, Forensics, Defense, Hygiene, Application Security, Attack, and Policy. Architect of identity and security platforms at Apple Inc.
03
ICT Policy & Governance
Bridging technical realities and national policy. Advisory roles across four Government of Nepal ministries: emergency response, datacenter governance, digital infrastructure, and smart mobility.
04
Big Data & Cloud
Hadoop, Spark, Cloudera, Hortonworks, AWS. Led Big Data platform engineering at Apple and Qualcomm. Deployed scalable analytics infrastructure for global telecom networks and fraud detection.
05
Product & Team Leadership
UC Berkeley-trained in Executive Leadership (2019) and Product Management (2018). Built distributed engineering teams across USA, India, Mexico, Latin America, delivering from SLA to commercialization.
06
Web3 & Emerging Tech
Active speaker on crypto technologies, decentralized systems, and Web 3.0 as both technical and political phenomena. Judge and panelist at tech festivals, podcasts, and webinars.
03
Experience
Government · Policy
Mar 2024 — Jul 2024
IT Policy Advisor
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), Nepal
Engaged by the Federal Minister of Education to advise on Information Technology policy execution and strategic initiatives. Conducted analysis of national school-level teacher data to enable data-driven policy interventions in human resource management across the education sector. Facilitated development of the wireframe for a Teachers' Portal — laying the technological foundation for managing identified HR issues at scale. Led the randomization of exam center allocations in Kathmandu for Grade 12 examinations, ensuring fairness and transparency in the examination process. Identified critical implementation gaps in the Tribhuvan University IT Policy 2023 and the Digitalization Strategy Plan 2023, providing actionable insights to strengthen Nepal's digital strategy and policy execution.
Government · Policy
Feb 2024
Committee Member, IERS
Ministry of Home Affairs, Nepal
Initiator of Nepal's Integrated Emergency Response System (IERS). Served as committee member and subcommittee coordinator — designing, architecting, and drafting the comprehensive conceptual paper and action plan. Collaborated with stakeholders across security forces, the Health Ministry, Nepal Telecom Authority, and Ministry of Communication and IT to optimize emergency signal reception, contact registration, broadcast, and multi-agency coordination (Police, Fire & Rescue, Health). Led emergency skills enhancement for institutions and the public.
Government · Advisory
Nov 2023
Committee Member
Ministry of Home Affairs, Nepal
Contributed to enhancing work execution efficiency within the Home Ministry and its diverse units. Conducted studies, identified key sectors for improvement, and devised actionable recommendations. Worked under the former Chief Secretary of Cabinets alongside the former Secretary of Home Ministry and Inspector Generals of security forces.
Government · Investigative
Feb 2023
Committee Member, High-Level Cabinet Committee
Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Nepal
Led a comprehensive investigation into service interruptions at the Government Integrated Datacenter and Disaster Recovery Center. Prepared and submitted a detailed report through meticulous analysis that played a pivotal role in shaping the Ministry's strategic decisions and significantly influenced the National Policy and Program for 2023/2024.
Government · Working Group
Jan 2023
Working Group Member
Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Nepal
Key participant in the working group addressing vehicle pollution, traffic safety, and accident mitigation. Led investigation into ICT solutions for electronic driving licenses, raised number plates, insurance, and comprehensive road safety measures. Substantially advanced the committee's outcomes over a year of intensive engagement.
Entrepreneur
Oct 2018
Founder
Sayapatri Tech Pvt. Ltd., Kathmandu, Nepal
Envisioned and built a premier Nepali IT company focused on cutting-edge information security products, consulting, and tools for Nepali businesses — without compromising on quality. Building locally-owned digital infrastructure for the next generation.
Co-hosted and produced 977podcast with Sanjay Rimal — 13 long-form episodes of thought-provoking conversation about Nepal and Nepali people, available on Apple Podcasts. The name is a nod to Nepal's international dialing code (+977). Episodes explored a wide range of topics: cryptocurrency policy, post-insurgency politics, social justice, media literacy, cannabis decriminalization, youth in democracy, and Nepali identity and culture. Each conversation ran between one and two hours, prioritising depth and candour over soundbites.
Built the Registration and Access Management Platform (RAMP) — managing identity, access, and authorization for all Apple employees, vendors, and contractors across internal applications. Product owner of the Apple Security Event Pipeline (ASEP): a Big Data platform for fraud detection and threat response collecting, transporting, and processing 250 TB of data every day. Helped multiple engineering managers build teams, approved tech stacks, and set overall security product technology direction — deployed across cloud and Apple data centers.
Industry · Silicon Valley
Sept 2014 — Apr 2017
Big Data Architect
Apple Inc., Cupertino, USA
Led onsite and offshore engineering teams to build and support Apple's Big Data platform. Hired and managed ultra-talented engineers driving Hadoop/Spark innovation. Partnered with Cloudera and Hortonworks to build enterprise-ready features. Designed a highly scalable custom monitoring and analytics platform for metrics collection, storage, and visualization across Apple.
Industry
Sept 2011 — Sept 2014
Senior Engineer · Big Data Solutions Architect
Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA
Member of the Emerging Products Group developing push-to-talk (PTT) and messaging applications. Led 10+ engineers across USA, India, Mexico, and Latin America. Deployed and integrated the QCHAT Ecosystem into telecom networks — launching VoIP-based mobile solutions for major U.S. and Mexican wireless operators. Scope spanned pre/post-sales support, capacity projection, scalable cluster deployment, performance tuning, DR/BCP assessment, and IT security clearance for Hadoop deployments.
Industry · Consulting
Mar 2011 — Sept 2011
Programming Analyst (Consultant)
Intuit Inc., San Diego, CA
Supported flagship products including Quickbase, Intuit Market, and QuickBooks. Migrated applications from legacy data centers to new state-of-the-art facilities. Delivered HA/DR infrastructure solutions, high-availability network and storage support, and 24-hour on-call coverage.
Academia · Research
Feb 2009 — Mar 2010
Graduate Assistant
Applied Digital Signal Processing Lab · Lamar University, USA
Research published as thesis: "Spectral Estimation of Electroencephalogram Signal using ARMAX Model and Particle Swarm Optimization" — at the intersection of signal processing and computational intelligence.
Academia
Sept 2008 — Dec 2008
Teaching Assistant
South Dakota State University, USA
Teaching, tutoring, and grading Electronics laboratory for BSEE students.
Academia · Fellowship
Aug 2006 — Jul 2008
Research Fellow
Kathmandu University, Nepal
Received Research Fellowship from Happy House Federation, Switzerland to establish the Machine Vision Laboratory at Kathmandu University. Designed software for online monitoring of fluvial particles using optical and image processing. Developed ANN-based image classification and a Pelton turbine erosion measurement tool using digital image processing.
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Doctoral Research
PhD Candidate · 2023 – Present
Entrepreneurship & Discursive Power
Enrolled since 2023 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. The research sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship studies and critical social theory — asking how power, discourse, and capital shape who becomes an entrepreneur, and on whose terms.
Drawing on three foundational theoretical traditions, the study interrogates whether entrepreneurship is a neutral economic activity or a contested site where narrative, legitimacy, and access are actively produced and policed — particularly in contexts like Nepal where formal institutions coexist with deep informal social structures.
Amartya Sen
Capability Approach
What real freedoms and capabilities do people have to pursue entrepreneurship? Questions whether formal opportunity translates into substantive possibility across social positions.
Pierre Bourdieu
Capital Theories
Social, cultural, and economic capital as determinants of entrepreneurial access and legitimacy — who holds the capital to be recognized as a credible founder.
Michel Foucault
Discourse & Power
How discourse constructs the very category of "entrepreneur" — which narratives are authorized, which are silenced, and how power operates through knowledge regimes and institutional practice.
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Thinking
Point of View
Digital Sovereignty & the Politics of Infrastructure
Nepal — and the broader Global South — faces a defining choice: become consumers of architectures designed elsewhere, or become architects of systems that reflect their own laws, values, and futures. After building identity and security infrastructure at Apple, and advising the Government of Nepal on emergency response and datacenter policy, I have seen both sides: the power of large-scale systems and the vulnerability of governments that do not control their own digital stack.
My PhD research extends this into the social dimension — examining how discourse, power, and capital shape who gets to build, and for whom. Crypto and Web 3.0 fascinate me not only as technology but as political phenomena. Decentralization is a promise about power. Whether it delivers depends entirely on who architects the protocols and who is excluded from the table.
Podcast
977podcast — long-form conversations on Nepal's politics, society, and identity (2020–2021)
Web3
What decentralization actually means for economies without stable institutions
Policy
Designing emergency response systems before the emergency arrives
Security
Why cybersecurity is a political problem dressed in technical clothing
Research
Critiques of development through Foucault's discourse and power theory
Nepal
Building local engineering culture as a national sovereignty issue
Entrepreneurship
Who gets to be a "legitimate" founder — and who decides?
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Publications
2024
GDP and Per Capita Income Inequality of Provinces of Nepal
International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies
Over the years I have joined conversations on technology, entrepreneurship, policy, and Nepal's digital future across various media platforms. These appearances reflect the ideas I care most about — building capable systems, enabling governance, and unlocking human potential through better institutions.
Whether it's a technology architecture challenge, a national policy conversation, a speaking opportunity, a research collaboration, or a new venture — I am interested in problems that sit at the edge of what systems can do and what society needs.
