The TechKraft Podcast

Ashish Shrestha is the CEO of HoneyGuide, a company designing software for trekking and travel in Nepal. He is also the Marketing Director of Bhoos Games, a mobile game company whose online card games have been downloaded by millions. He is also the Marketing Advisor for UniPort, a tech company that helps students find colleges in North America.

In this podcast, we explore his expertise on entrepreneurship and marketing for tech companies, game development, brand building, and much more. 

Watch full video at https://youtu.be/NPA200mVJdo

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Host : Ravi Mandal

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Guest: Ashish Shrestha

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Nabin Jaiswal is the CPO of Codewing Solutions, a WordPress development company with more than 1,00,000 downloads of their products, themes, and plugins. They have created hundreds of products targeted towards diverse customer groups. Rishi Themes, Delicious Recipes, Blossom Themes, Kraft Plugins, and Rara Themes are some their popular product marketplaces that has reached millions around the world.  In this podcast, we explore his expertise on WordPress product development, scaling, security, maintenance, marketing, competitors, career, community, and much more.

Watch full video at https://youtu.be/JFrxgB2anGY

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Host : Ravi Mandal

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Guest: Nabin Jaiswal

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Shreyasha Paudel works in Research and Design of Robotics and AI systems around the world. She has also worked as a Technical Project Lead in Ford Motor Company developing Self-Driving and other autonomous technologies.   She is currently a Research fellow at NAAMII, exploring the potential of AI in Nepal. Amongst her many collaborative efforts in the field of AI with various global institutes and companies, she has worked with Civic Software Foundation, Nepal Flying Labs, Montreal AI Ethics Institute, and various others.   In this podcast, we explore her fascinating insights on Self-Driving, AI, ML, Neural Networks, and much more.

Watch full video at https://youtu.be/yGAejFxnvd0

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Host : Ravi Mandal 

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Guest: Shreyasha Paudel 

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Shyam Adhikari is the Design Lead at Web Point Solutions, LLC, an IT service and consulting company headquartered in Covington, Georgia, USA.   In this podcast we explore his expertise in front-end development and UI/UX Design to understand the difference between User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX), how they relate to one another, and the various underlying concepts, skills, and challenges associated with UI/UX Design in Nepal and international markets.

Watch full video at https://youtu.be/zjg_l4_g4dA

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Host : Ravi Mandal  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravimandal/ https://instagram.com/rvimandal  

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Guest: Shyam Adhikari https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyam-adri/

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Prasanna Dhungel is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GrowByData, a US & Nepal-based company that provides marketing intelligence and big data solutions to some of the world’s Top 100 Retailers & Brands. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Clinic One, a leading healthcare clinic in Kathmandu with the mission of driving preventative healthcare in Nepal.   

Episode 23 of the TechKraft Podcast explores his expertise in big data in marketing, the potential of building a data-driven society in Nepal, the value of data training, and much more.

Watch the full video at https://youtu.be/LYoJI3TVPrM

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Host: Ravi Mandal  

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Guest: Prasanna Dhungel 

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Pramod Poudel is the Director of SoftEd Group, a network of technology-driven businesses across multiple industry domains in Nepal. He is also the CEO of Digi Technology, Co-Founder and Campus Cheif of Softwarica College of IT and E-Commerce,  and Co-founder and Academic Director at Sunway Business School, all of which are subsidiary ventures of SoftEd Group. In this episode of the Techkraft podcast, he talks about academic course designs, the value of a degree, employment opportunities for IT students, and more about IT education in Nepal.   

Watch full video at https://youtu.be/rLuYsApyOUw

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Host : Ravi Mandal 

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Guest: Pramod Poudel 

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Roshan Bhattarai is the Co-Founder of Proshore, a Team as a Service (Taas) platform outsourcing remote teams from Nepal to global businesses. He is also the CEO of Keptify, a popular niche SaaS product for e-commerce sites & also the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Digital Product Labs Inc which develops a range of products for global e-commerce platform builder Shopify. Join in on our conversation with Roshan as he shares his expertise in managing teams that provide world-class products and services leveraging the growing tech industry of Nepal.  

Watch the video https://youtu.be/Q27WCH2CV9o

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Host : Ravi Mandal  

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Guest: Roshan Bhattarai 

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Mizanur Rahman is an Agile Coach and Software Architect from Bangladesh who has traveled to more than 30 countries sharing the knowledge of Scrum to thousands. In his visit to Nepal as a speaker for Regional Scrum Gathering Nepal 2022, we had a very insightful conversation with him on a wide range of topics from his experience as a globe-trotting digital nomad to simultaneously leading remote agile teams in Bangladesh developing software for USA.

Watch Full Video: https://youtu.be/AvH7nCN0ojQ

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Host : Ravi Mandal

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Guest: Mizanur Rahman 

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Rachhek Shrestha is a Data scientist and Full-stack developer at Futurice, a digital engineering company in Helsinki, Finland. At Futurice he is working with big data, machine learning, and integrating systems to industry 4.0. He shares his experience on the high level of engineering Finland is applying and how Futurice is implementing such smart technologies to enhance productivity. He also delves into custom search engines, data privacy, Finnish work culture, and much more.

Watch full video https://youtu.be/tqQN9xi_R9U

Host : Ravi Mandal   

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Guest: Rachhek Shrestha  

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Ronak Zala is a performance engineer at VMware, California. At the Silicon Valley tech giant, he has developed various microservice applications from scratch. His Cloud JVM Profiling Service for distributed micro-service architectures is currently being applied at scale for monitoring and analysis at VMware’s vCenter. He shares his fascinating journey as a software developer at VMware and the innovative environment which fostered his growth as a programmer. He also provides valuable experiences and exclusive insights about core engineering concepts including byte code manipulation, APMs, stack overflow, heap analysis, fixing memory leaks, low overhead memory management for optimizing CPU cycles, quantum computing, AHM-64, and much more.

Watch Full Video https://bit.ly/techkraftpodcastvideo-18

Host : Ravi Mandal   

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Guest: Ronak Zala 

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The holiday season is here, with Christmas right around the curb. However, beneath the celebrations lurk cybercriminals targeting businesses that are often under-staffed or hectic during the holidays causing record numbers of data breaches each year.  

To keep the festive spirit merry, we have invited: Santosh Sharma, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Eminence Ways to share his vast insights on how to protect yourself and your business from cyberattacks. He gives a case-by-case overview of global threat presence from social engineering, ransomware, and DDoS attacks to how organizations can secure their data with skilled ethical hackers, logical processes, and much more on everything cybersecurity.   

Watch Full Video https://bit.ly/techkraftpodcast-ep-17 

Host : Ravi Mandal

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Guest: Santosh Sharma

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Karvika Thapa is the Founder and CEO of Kimbu Tech, a business offshoring company which provides software and support services to companies in Israel and USA. She shares her experience of life in the global tech hub of Israel. Her efforts have established confidence between Nepal’s talent market with tech giants in US and Israel. She also talks about meeting competitive expectations in the global marketplace, promoting women in Nepalese tech, role of universities and investors, and much more to bring a thriving technology ecosystem to Nepal.

Watch Full Video https://bit.ly/3GLSlOy-ep-16

Host : Ravi Mandal

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Guest: Karvika Thapa

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Jeff Handy is the COO and Co-founder of Seva Development, a Software development and QA Engineering company based in USA and Nepal. He talks about his 5 years of experience on working alongside Nepali developers and engineers as well as the unique case of Seva development as a start-up which began operation from a remote village in Lamjung. He also shares his thoughts on the American view of outsourcing to Nepal and the potential of Nepal to become a leading hub for outsourcing and Innovation. 

Full Video: https://bit.ly/3ahe4Qg-ep-13

Host : Ravi Mandal   

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Guest: Jeff Handy 

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Bishal Vaidya is a Product & Operation Manager at Introcept Nepal. He shares his experience and insights to deliver projects and lead teams in this Podcast . He draws on his experience from Software Engineer to Product Manager to explore how project managers create value in surprising places. His  perspectives on project management, its uses, its challenges, its changes and its future will help up-skill the new comers in the field of Project/Product Manger to be more effective as a leader and project manager.

Full Video: https://bit.ly/3mhWdOC-ep-12

Host: Ravi Mandal

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Guest: Bishal Vaidya   

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Amit co-founded Namaste Kathmandu with a vision of organizing various tech events in Nepal. He and his team successfully organized Mobile Monday, Dribble Meetup, Regional Scrum Gathering, ng-Conf, and other community meetups. He shares his experience, struggles about organizing events and journeys to get into this niche.

Full Video: https://bit.ly/tpp-v-ep9

Host : Ravi Mandal   

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Guest: Amit Bajracharya  

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Prashant is an Infrastructure Engineer with experience of almost a decade in the industry. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and engages in community doing advocacy work. He shares his experience around working in infrastructure, opportunities around it and how to get started in this path.

Full Video: https://bit.ly/ttp-v-ep8

Prashish returned to Nepal after completing his post graduation and working at a startup. He shares his experience of silicon valley as a professional and student and also the shift of mindset he got during his stay in the USA. He returned to Nepal with a vision to build strong engineering teams and products from Nepal.   

He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Innovate Tech, Nepal.  

Full Video: https://bit.ly/ttp-v-ep6

Host : Ravi Mandal  

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Guest: Prashish Rajbhandari  

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In this episode we will discuss about Salesforce as a product, what exactly does a Salesforce developer do, trends followed in big companies and in Silicon Valley and opportunities around it. 

Guest:  Diwas Poudel, Software Engineer at Salesforce.