Navaraj Thapa
I am an infrastructure person in Kathmandu — in-house datacenter, racks and servers, through to cloud. For most of the last decade the job was to keep things running where stopping was expensive: a national clearing house, a card and ATM switch, a hospital treating cancer patients.
I studied at Portsmouth and spent nine years in Britain before coming home. From 2014 I was administering several hundred CentOS servers for a UK company from a desk in Kathmandu, which taught me most of what I know about working at a distance, and about automating anything you would otherwise do twice.
Now I build my own products instead. The short version is below. The full history, kept current, is on LinkedIn.
Now
Dec 2024 →
Founder · beemaportal
Two products, built and run solo:
- cvnepal.com — a CV builder aimed at Nepali job seekers, most of whom are assembling a resume for the first time.
- beemaportal.com — an insurance information portal, because insurance in Nepal is sold far more often than it is explained.
Everything from the infrastructure to the interface.
Before
2024
Nepal Republic Media — Chief Technology Officer
Editorial CMS, ePaper, cloud migration, the security around a newsroom’s data, and the vendor contracts underneath all of it.
2021 – 2023
Nepal Electronic Payment System — Head of IT
The operator that runs outsourced card operations for Nepali banks. The card and ATM switch, payment network connectivity, and the implementation and maintenance of PCI DSS and PCI PIN requirements across it.
2018 – 2021
Nepal Clearing House — Sr. Infrastructure Analyst
The server environment behind connectIPS: high availability and load balancing, and the ECC and IPS rails alongside it. Firewall policy administration, VLANs, link aggregation and port security.
2017 – 2018
Nepal Cancer Hospital — Head of IT
The systems a hospital runs on, and a full disaster-recovery site for them.
2014 – 2016
Appstractor Corporation — Linux Administrator
Several hundred CentOS servers, Ansible and Rundeck automation, and patching at that scale with bash scripts of my own. Done from Kathmandu, for a company in Hertfordshire, in 2014.
Education
BSc Computing Information Systems, University of Portsmouth. MSc Computing Information Systems, Nepal College of Information Technology.