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People

The team you actually get

Bajra runs from two offices — New York and Kathmandu — under two companies and two CEOs who founded it together in 2011. Below is the leadership you would be dealing with.

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An open office where four teams, development, design, QA and product, work at their desks on one shared product shown on the wall screen

Names, not job titles on a slide

Leadership

Gaurub Pandey

CEO, Bajra Technologies, LLC

Co-founded Bajra after starting his career at Cisco. Sixteen years in the industry and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University.

Nishant Karki

CEO, Bajra Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

The other co-founder, with fifteen years across sectors and a Computer Engineering degree from Pulchowk Engineering Campus. Drove the move into game development.

Degendra Sivakoti

VP of Engineering

Owns technical strategy. Established the standardized CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation, and upskilled over 130 engineers to be market-ready.

Ankur Maharjan

VP of Solution Delivery

Joined as an intern in 2015 and moved from Android to backend, frontend and DevOps. Led the launch of Nepa: Saga, which passed 50,000 downloads.

Ashok Koirala

Director of Engineering

Also started as an intern. Over a decade in development and project management, with a focus on modernizing legacy systems and tightening security.

Aayush Bati

Director of Solution Delivery

Software engineer, then team lead, then project manager. Assembles the right team for each project and shapes the delivery process around budget, timeline and quality.

Abhishek Dangol

Associate Director of Solution Delivery

Leads the Technical Review Committee, which reviews architecture, security and performance across projects. Also runs DevOps, SecOps and data engineering.

Nadi R. L. Malla

General Counsel

Oversees legal and regulatory matters. LLB from Nepal Law Campus; founded her own firm in 2019 and practices corporate, labor and contract law.

Sandip Nepal

Interim CFO

Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Runs budgeting, forecasting and regulatory compliance.

Ruby Shakya

Associate Director of HR and Operations

Started as an HR assistant and now holds authority over most of the company. MBA from the South Asian Institute of Management.

Smile Shakya

Operations Manager

Runs workflows, resourcing and vendor relations, and extended the in-house ERP to cover facilities alongside equipment.

The answer to “who will I get, and will they stay?”

People grow here

Intern → VP

Interns become VPs

Ankur Maharjan joined as an intern in 2015 and is now VP of Solution Delivery. Ashok Koirala took the same route to Director of Engineering.

130+

130+ engineers upskilled

During the pandemic, Degendra Sivakoti led remote team management and brought over 130 engineers to market-ready standard.

Flat Merit

over seniority

A flat structure and open-door policy, where contributions are weighed on merit rather than tenure.