Summary
Sodhan Manandhar is a seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling e-commerce platforms and engineering teams from Kathmandu, Nepal. As a co-founder and long-time CTO of Sasto Deal, he led the product and technical pivots from a Groupon model to a B2C marketplace, launching native mobile apps, logistics tooling, and integrations with 3PL partners while helping secure Series A funding. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and management, he has a track record of single-handedly sustaining tech operations in crisis and later structuring teams and processes to support rapid growth. Now contributing to growth at Nepal Knitting Industries, he brings startup grit, product-driven engineering, and formal business training with an MBA. Notably, his career combines deep PHP/Laravel web experience with pragmatic infrastructure and ops work—skills honed while rebuilding legacy systems and launching new consumer-facing platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Hons in Computing Computing, Bsc Hons in Computing Computing at University of Portsmouth
School Leaving Certificate, School Leaving Certificate at Shuvatara School
MBA, MBA at Kathmandu University School of Management
10+2 Computer Science Physics Chemistry Maths English, 10+2 Computer Science Physics Chemistry Maths English at Modern Indian School
Nepali, English, Nepal Bhasa, Hindi