Summary
Bashanta Dahal is a Software Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience leading teams to build metrics, insights, and payments-related systems at scale across San Francisco and global organizations. He has driven major migrations and product initiatives at PayPal—most notably growing a 3DS portfolio 10x and leading a 3DS2 migration that saved merchants billions—before moving to Meta as an engineering manager. Comfortable both as a hands-on tech lead and a people manager, he has a track record of assembling teams, instituting reliability engineering that reclaimed developer time, and shipping cross-functional features like dynamic 3DS rules and merchant insights. His background spans startups to enterprises, with technical roots in Ruby, Java, Node, cloud platforms and microservices, and a history of architecting transaction systems across regulated domains. Trained in organizational leadership at the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, he combines technical depth with deliberate coaching and process design. He’s the kind of leader who turns complex payments challenges into measurable business impact while mentoring engineers to scale their influence.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Leading with Authenticity Organizational Leadership, Leading with Authenticity Organizational Leadership at Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute.
Bachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at Kathmandu Engineering College
Master's degree Information and communication technology, Master's degree Information and communication technology at La Trobe University
English, Nepali, Hindi