The Timeline · Chapter by chapter
From a software career
to a journey across Nepal.
Every milestone that brought me from writing software to riding the length of a country.
Read in sequence
How I arrived at the road.
Each chapter is a milestone — school, work, a rupture, a decision — recorded here in order.
2018·education
Computer Engineering.
Bachelors in Computer Engineering at Kathmandu University. Full of unforgottable moments. Lived the Peak student life. Also did freelance projects and did some part time software engineering jobs.
2023·transition
Bachelors Complete and LIS.
Completed Bachelors and started a data engineering internship at LIS(software company). Worked with self hosted LLMs, Computer vision, ETL's and data analytics
2023–2024·career
Software Engineer @ Khalti
Worked as a software engineer at Khalti. Learned a lot about fintech and high traffic backend systems. Bought my royal enfield meteor and travelled a lot on it.
2024·transition
Aerawat Corp
Started working at aerawat corp building software around autism. Learned a lot about infrastructure and software development. Led Backend teams, worked closely with industry pioneers and developed a more concrete understanding around business and technology
2025·career
Travelling on leave and holidays
Whenever I could, I used weekends and annual leave to travel to different parts of Nepal.
One journey took me to eastern Nepal, where I visited the place my father had grown up and studied. Walking through the places I had only heard about as stories gave me a different perspective on both my family and the communities that shaped them. I spent time talking with locals, listening more than asking questions, and gradually realised that happiness and purpose rarely followed the same path as material success.
Those trips slowly changed how I thought about work and the kind of life I wanted to build.
By the end of the year, I was saving nearly half of my salary with one goal: to leave my job and begin the Motorcycle Diaries project.
2025-2026·career
Annapurna circuit trek
Took a week off with an office buddy to complete the Annapurna Circuit. The trek became memorable because of the people I met along the way.
A French traveller had sold everything he owned and was riding his bicycle across Asia while researching sustainable development for a book. A German Muay Thai fighter had spent six years saving for long-term travel, lived in Japan for a year, loved philosophy, and somehow ended up singing Bink's Sake from One Piece with me and our trekking guide at an altitude of nearly 4,800 metres. I met a South African teaching English in Dhading, and a Danish Software engineer who had married a woman from Janakpur and proudly taken her surname as his own.
Those conversations stayed with me long after the trek ended. They made me realise that education, travel, and learning from people were no longer just interests. They were becoming the direction I wanted my life to take.
2026·transition
The GenZ protests
Took leave from work and went out into the streets.
What had been planned as a small demonstration grew, in a matter of hours, into something no one had expected. Shots were fired. Many young people, some as young as fourteen, were shot dead. After that the protest turned in a way no one could have imagined, and by the next day the whole country was burning down.
I saw, up close, how reckless and greedy a power-hungry government becomes when it stops listening to its own people. For days I carried a low, steady anxiety, unsure which way Nepal would tip, or what would still be standing on the other side.
And then, slowly, the streets quieted. An interim arrangement held. The country had not broken, though it had been forced to look, very plainly, at what it was.
2026·transition
An election, and what comes after
An election was held, and what came out of it was a near-complete revamp of the system.
For a brief moment it felt like things might actually change.
But I have learned not to mistake a new government for a finished job. The harder work begins after the cameras leave: keeping a strong opposition alive, holding this government to the same standards it asked of the last, refusing to let the change quiet down.
I think more and more about the responsibility each of us carries to help shape the country we want, in whatever small way is available to us. That, more than anything, is what I want this journey to be.