Dhruba Adhikari
Executive Founder at KTM One
Nepal
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Top SchoolDhruba A is a seasoned technology leader and serial founder in Nepal, currently serving as CTO at Khalti and IME Khalti Ltd, where he steers a 50+ engineer team and a long-term cloud-native, microservices-driven fintech platform. With 13+ years of experience, he co-founded influential products like Khalti (Nepal's second-largest digital wallet) and Picovico, and founded Aerawat Corp and RxPIN to push digital transformation in fintech, media, and therapeutics. He excels at scaling engineering organizations, migrating from monoliths to microservices, deploying Kubernetes, implementing CI/CD, and achieving ISO 27001/ISMS compliance while managing 600% traffic spikes and 100+ services. His work spans telecom VAS, fintech payments, video rendering, and social impact projects, including neuro-divergent community initiatives. He holds a BE in Computer Engineering from Institute of Engineering, TU, and blends hands-on engineering with product leadership and strategic operations. Based in Nepal, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a track record of delivering secure, scalable platforms and building teams that ship.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School, Secondary School at Balodaya Secondary Boarding SchoolIntermediate, Physics, Mathematics, Intermediate, Physics, Mathematics at Gandaki Higher Secondary Boarding SchoolBE, Computer Engineering, BE, Computer Engineering at Institute of Engineering, TU
Nepali, English, Hindi
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Github Skills (183)
visa10
payment-service10
payment-gateway10
sms10
recaptcha10
recaptcha-v310
payment-integration10
api10
payment10
whmcs10
counter10
adyen10
php-class10
craigslist10
payment-processing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
acpmasquerade/bootstrap3-timepicker2
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
bootstrap-3timepicker-componenttimepickertwitterbootstrap
picovico/official-blog
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:18 PRs, 149 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
jekyll
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