Nobel Dahal
Independent software consultant · Kathmandu, Nepal · UTC+5:45
Built Kaede, a cargo ERP for freight forwarders, end to end: IATA ONE Record and Cargo-XML, AWB stock under concurrency, carrier-portal automation, and a learning engine that suggests from the office's own history. Laravel contributor; author of Syncfusion's Nepali locale. Full-stack developer in Kathmandu, shipping production software since 2018.
Selected work
Kaede · Cargo ERP for freight forwarders · Creator and lead engineer
2022 – present- Runs a forwarder end to end: quotes, air waybills and stock, pickup and delivery, billing, leave and payroll; air, sea and road.
- Reads booking emails, invoices and packing lists and drafts the waybill for a person to confirm; full-text search and OCR over every document.
- Learning engine suggests parties, HS codes and routings from the office’s own history; rate builder suggests prices from rate tables.
- Native IATA ONE Record and Cargo-XML; browser automation for airline portals (Cathay Cargo, Etihad Cargo, iCargo).
- WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, LINE, WeChat, Teams, Slack, SMS, email and web chat in one desk; driver and warehouse app with scan batches.
- Plain-language analytics with the shipments behind every number; SHA-256 hash-chained audit trail verified nightly; multi-tenant with billing.
Laravel 13, PHP 8.4, Vue 3, PostgreSQL, Reverb (WebSockets), Syncfusion, Playwright · English, Nepali, Japanese
Kalimati Market · kalimatimarket.gov.np · Sole developer
2021 – 2025- Platform for Nepal’s largest wholesale produce market (60–70% of Kathmandu valley supply): website, ad-free Android app and staff admin.
- Daily prices for 100+ commodities and arrivals, with history and comparisons; notices, tenders and pesticide reports; Nepali and English.
- Online dues payments via eSewa, Khalti and bank: exact-amount checks, single-use references, queued server-to-server verification, daily rollover.
- Payment API for gateway providers: per-provider HS512 JWTs, IP allow-listing, quarterly key rotation, named errors, maintenance-safe retries.
- Nightly sync with the market’s office system: transactional CSV imports with checksums and one-per-day guards, payment exports, libsodium encryption.
Laravel, MySQL, queues, libsodium, JWT, Android
Experience
Independent · Software Consultant · Own practice
Jan 2020 – present- Design, build and run ERP, CRM and operations systems for clients, from schema to deployment. Kaede and Kalimati Market above.
Code for Nepal · Data Science Fellow · Part-time
Dec 2021 – May 2022United Real Estate (US) · Software Engineer · Contract
May 2020 – Apr 2021- Migrated the brokerage from Zoho CRM to Microsoft Dynamics 365, with tooling for records and the document store (to SharePoint).
- Node.js microservice over the Dynamics Web API (Azure AD) that finds agents near a lead among millions of records and maps them in seconds.
- C# plugins (Leads, Opportunity, Super Obituaries), schema tooling to replay customisations, Power Automate flows for mail and Planner.
Proshore · Software Engineer · Full-time
Oct 2020 – Feb 2021- Led the build of Affiliatefeed, a Shopify app forked from Exportfeed into a standalone PWA, including company-wide demos.
- Refactoring within Joomla MVC; pushed for test-driven development; remote Agile team.
TechSathi · Platform Architect · Part-time
Jun 2020 – Nov 2020- AWS operations and continuous delivery for a news portal; cut query times with views and stored procedures.
ThemeGrill (WPEverest) · WordPress Plugin Developer · Full-time
Nov 2019 – Jun 2020- 28 merged pull requests to Everest Forms and User Registration: WPML support, PHPUnit setup, conditional logic, email validation.
- Rebuilt the PDF Submission add-on: render time at least halved, size from 12 MB to 5.6 MB.
- Found a file-upload validation bypass in Everest Forms Pro (fixed in 1.7) and closed a server-side email validation gap in the core plugin.
- Wrote the WPEverest developer documentation.
Gurkha Technology · Software Engineer · Full-time
Jul 2019 – Nov 2019- Exam system for Presidential Business School: randomised entrance papers; a scraper that gathered 17k questions, replacing manual entry.
- Two-person team for nimbusnepal.com and its Laravel CMS with an applicant tracking system.
Google Developer Group (GDG) Dang · Organizer and Speaker · Volunteer
2019- Volunteer organizer; deployed the chapter’s DevFest 2019 site, a Vue PWA on Firebase.
- Spoke on Google Vision AI, with an open-source Lumen demo app for attendees to start from.
The Open Institute for Social Science · Software Engineer · Internship
Nov 2018 – Feb 2019- Contributed to ERPNext and Zulip under Dr. Peter Graif; Linux administration on DigitalOcean.
Open source
- Laravel · Fixed a date overflow that crashed validation. Shipped in 8.x.
- Syncfusion EJ2 · Wrote the Nepali locale, now part of the library.
- WPEverest · 28 merged pull requests to Everest Forms and User Registration.
- WPEverest docs · Wrote the developer documentation, on my own.
- GDG Dang · Built the DevFest 2019 site and a Vision AI demo for my talk.
- PHPJasper · Maintain a fork for production: JasperStarter 3.6.2, headless Java, Japanese fonts.
- vee-validate · Made the Nepali messages formal and correct.
Skills
- Backend
- PHP, Laravel, Node.js, Express, Python, C++
- Data
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, Power BI, Tableau
- Frontend
- Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Platform
- Linux, Bash, Docker, AWS, CI/CD, Dynamics 365
Certifications
- Project Management Foundations · PMI, 2024
- DevOps Professional Certificate · PagerDuty, 2024
- Career Essentials in Software Development · Microsoft, 2024
- Career Essentials in Project Management · Microsoft, 2024
- Introduction to Generative AI · AWS, 2024
- Intermediate PostgreSQL · University of Michigan, 2021
- SQL Server Developer · DataCamp, 2022
Education
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer · Himalaya College of Engineering, 2014–2018