Alisha Budhathoki
Mobile Engineering Lead · Fintech & Digital Banking

Engineering trusted mobile finance.

I lead 15+ engineers at IME Digital Solutions building the apps people in Nepal use to trade, send money and pay.

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Capital-market products

Products and partners

Global IME BankIME PayIME RemittanceGlobalSmart+Fusemachines
About

One codebase, three fintech products.

7+ years in software, five of them shipping Flutter products in regulated fintech. I set technical direction for three product lines and built the pluggable framework that lets one codebase live inside partner banks' apps.

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ONE CODEBASETradingRemittanceWalletSTANDALONE APPPARTNER BANK APPIME PAY WALLET
  • Security firstPeople trust this code with their money, so encryption and audit trails come built in.
  • Reliability over speedTest first, ship in small modules, and let reliability be the feature customers notice.
  • Teams that compoundClear standards and careful code review keep a team shipping safely for years.
Experience

Where I've shipped.

7+ years · since 2019

  1. Fintech · Capital Markets · Payments

    IME Digital Solutions

    Senior Flutter Developer — Team Lead

    Aug 2024 — Present · Kathmandu, Nepal

    Lead 15+ engineers shipping trading, remittance and wallet products, including GlobalSmart+ inside Global IME Bank's app.

    • Team lead
    • Pluggable Flutter framework
    • Capital markets
    • Real-time SSE
    What I did thereHide details
    • Lead a team of 15+ engineers across the capital-market, remittance and wallet product lines, owning technical direction, sprint planning, code review and engineering standards, and representing engineering with product, compliance and partner-bank stakeholders.
    • Hire and grow the team: interview and select engineers, onboard new hires and mentor them into owning product areas, keeping delivery steady as the team scales.
    • Architected the pluggable Flutter framework the products are built on, so one codebase ships as a standalone app and as drop-in modules inside partner apps on any native stack, with no platform rewrite per integration.
    • Delivered the capital-market platform end to end: live NEPSE prices, screeners, IPO applications, portfolio tracking, the stock buy/sell order engine, margin trading and margin lending, shipped as GlobalSmart+ inside Global IME Bank's mobile banking app and built for regulatory compliance and auditability.
    • Delivered the IME remittance service: send-money flows, beneficiary management, KYC and compliance checks, bank-deposit and cash-pickup payouts, and transfer tracking, built as a pluggable module so partner apps can offer remittance too.
    • Shipped payments, transfers and the capital-market module in IME Pay, the IME Group's digital wallet, alongside security hardening, performance work and continuous feature releases.
    • Made regulated releases safer by introducing test-driven development and a micro-frontend mobile strategy, reducing post-release defects and raising release confidence.
    • Replaced polling with real-time Server-Sent Events for price ticks and transaction alerts, cutting latency on time-sensitive trades and reducing network load on customers' devices.
    • Hardened security and performance with encrypted data at rest and in transit and secure authentication flows, contributing to growth in user acquisition and retention.

  2. EdTech · Enterprise

    Fusemachines Nepal

    Flutter Developer

    Feb 2021 — Aug 2024 · Kathmandu, Nepal

    Built Fuse Classroom and Squadery Connect on web and mobile, and mentored the engineers who came after me.

    • Fuse Classroom
    • Squadery Connect
    • Clean architecture
    • Mentoring
    What I did thereHide details
    • Shipped Fuse Classroom, a 28-module campus platform on web and mobile covering live classes, grades, attendance and student services, tuned for low-bandwidth networks, with role-aware authentication on AWS Cognito.
    • Designed Squadery Connect, an HRM app with worklog approval workflows, audit history, leave requisitions and status-driven notifications, used daily by engineering squads.
    • Re-architected legacy codebases onto SOLID, clean architecture, shortening feature turnaround and making the codebase easier to maintain.
    • Interviewed candidates and mentored interns and new hires, setting the onboarding and code-review standards that kept quality steady as the team grew.

  3. Mobile · Payments

    E-MultiTech Solution

    Android / Flutter Developer

    Feb 2020 — Oct 2020 · Kathmandu, Nepal

    Shipped Smart GK Academy and led the team's move from native Android to Flutter.

    • Flutter migration
    • In-app payments
    What I did thereHide details
    • Delivered Smart GK Academy, an exam-preparation platform for banking-sector recruitment (Nepal Rastra Bank, RBB, NBL, ADBL), with payment-gated course access and social sign-in.
    • Led the move from native Android to Flutter, building cross-platform modules for client projects on fast release cycles.

  4. Technical Writing

    Mantra Ideas Pvt. Ltd.

    Technical Content Writer

    Jan 2019 — Apr 2019 · Kathmandu, Nepal

    Wrote programming tutorials and ran the site's SEO.

    • Technical writing
    • SEO
    What I did thereHide details
    • Wrote programming tutorials for programming-techniques.com, and managed the site's SEO and ongoing maintenance.
Selected Work

Products in customers' hands.

7 shipped products
IME Digital Solutions · Global IME Bank
Stocks, IPOs and margin — as its own app, or inside yours.
Fintech · Trading

Capital Market & IPO Platform

Live NEPSE prices, IPOs, margin trading and lending, shipped as GlobalSmart+ inside Global IME Bank's app.

  • One codebase: a standalone trading app plus drop-in modules for partner apps on any native stack
  • Bank customers trade and apply for IPOs without leaving their banking app
  • Real-time SSE price ticks and transaction alerts instead of polling
  • TDD and micro-frontends keep releases safe in a regulated environment
Flutter · Riverpod · SSE · Clean Architecture · TDD2024 — Present
IME Group
Money home, with every check done right.
Fintech · Remittance

IME Remittance

Send money home with KYC, compliance and payout tracking built into the flow.

  • KYC and compliance built into the send flow, not bolted on
  • Pluggable module, so partner apps can offer remittance too
Flutter · Clean Architecture · REST APIs · Secure auth2024 — Present
IME Group
Pay, transfer and invest from one wallet.
Fintech · Digital Wallet

IME Pay

Top-ups, transfers, bill payments and stock trading in one wallet.

  • Capital-market trading added inside the wallet
  • Security hardening and performance work across releases
Flutter · Micro-frontends · Encryption · CI/CD2024 — Present
Squadery Connect screens
Enterprise · HRM

Squadery Connect

Worklogs, approvals and leave for engineering squads, with offline drafts.

  • Approval workflows with full audit history
  • Offline-tolerant drafts, so a dropped connection never loses work
Flutter · BLoC · REST APIs · Push notifications2023 — 2024
Fuse Classroom screens
EdTech · LMS

Fuse Classroom

A 28-module campus dashboard, from live classes to career services.

  • Role-aware AWS Cognito authentication
  • Legacy codebase refactored onto SOLID principles
Flutter Web · AWS Cognito · SOLID · Design systems2021 — 2024
Fuse Classroom Mobile screens
EdTech · AI

Fuse Classroom Mobile

Live classes and grades that work on low-bandwidth networks.

  • Live classes built to work on low-bandwidth networks
  • Attendance and GPA views driven by student data
Flutter · Video streaming · REST APIs · Firebase2021 — 2024
Smart GK Academy screens
EdTech · Payments

Smart GK Academy

Exam prep for Nepal's banking recruitment, with paid course tracks.

  • In-app payments gate premium course tracks
  • Google, Facebook and email sign-in
Flutter · Firebase · OAuth · In-app payments2020
Expertise

Fintech knowledge and engineering skills.

Leadership & Strategy

  • Engineering leadership (15+ engineers)
  • Technical direction & roadmaps
  • Delivery planning
  • Engineering standards & code review
  • Hiring & interviewing
  • Mentoring & onboarding
  • Stakeholder & partner management

Fintech Domain

  • Mobile banking
  • Stock trading & order flow
  • IPO applications
  • Margin trading & lending
  • Remittance & payouts
  • Digital wallets
  • KYC & compliance

Mobile Engineering

  • Flutter (advanced)
  • Dart
  • iOS / Android via Method Channels
  • Micro-frontend modules
  • Offline-first design

Architecture & Quality

  • Clean Architecture
  • SOLID
  • Test-Driven Development
  • Riverpod
  • BLoC
  • Code review

Security & Real-time

  • Encryption at rest & in transit
  • Secure auth flows
  • AWS Cognito
  • Server-Sent Events
  • App hardening

Backend & Tooling

  • Node.js
  • REST API design
  • Firebase
  • Git
  • CI/CD

Ways of Working

  • Agile / Scrum
  • Requirement analysis
  • Jira
  • Cross-functional delivery
Leadership & Community

Teaching digital safety outside work.

Program Lead & Community Advocate

Rotary District 3292 · 2023 — Present

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Leading since
  • Led digital-literacy and mental-health workshops across three community schools, reaching 500+ students and staff.
  • Designed and ran “Building Digital Resilience Against Disinformation in the Nepali Crisis”, a programme on digital literacy and the effects of misinformation.
  • Explained data privacy and digital footprints to young audiences alongside Rotary leadership, and judged youth panels with Rotary Club of Changu.
Alisha leading a digital-awareness workshop with a full classroom of students in Bhaktapur
Digital-literacy workshop, Bhaktapur
Alisha on the Rotary Club of Changu judging panel
Judging panel, Rotary Club of Changu
Alisha receiving a recognition award on stage at Southwestern State College
Recognition, Southwestern State College
Education

  • Master of Arts, International Relations

    Lumbini Buddhist University · In progress

  • BSc. Computer Science & Information Technology

    Kathford International College, Tribhuvan University · 2021

Certifications
  • AI Fellowship — Fusemachines
  • Machine Learning — Simplilearn
  • Clean Code Architecture
  • Agile & Scrum Training
  • React Native Training
  • Member — IME Pioneers Toastmasters Club
Contact

Open to engineering leadership roles in mobile and fintech.

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Alisha Budhathokialishabudhathoki633@gmail.com+977 984 357 7079Bhaktapur, Nepal
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