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RojilShrestha
Assistant VP of Product & Engineering, building scalable IPTV, billing, ads and infrastructure platforms, and leading the teams that ship them.
- Currently
- AVP · Product & Engineering
- Based in
- Kathmandu, Nepal
Featured Platform
NetTV, IPTV at national scale
01 About
Engineer first. Leader by practice.
Product thinker throughout.
Experienced Full Stack Software Engineer skilled in JavaScript, React.js, and Node.js, with expertise in IPTV solutions, eBilling, Ads Platforms, and analytics systems. Focused on improving operational efficiency and supporting data driven decision making. Proven leadership in managing cross functional teams, setting strategic goals, and ensuring high quality standards.
From writing PHP as an intern in 2017 to leading product and engineering at Genius Systems, through team lead, lecturer, instructor, COO and AVP, the common thread has stayed the same: ship systems that hold up in production, and grow the people who build them.
- Agile delivery with team lead and project management ownership
- Highly interactive front ends for web and TV applications, shipped through CI/CD
- Test driven development: comprehensive suites, early bug detection, iterative refactoring
- Progressive Web Applications in classic and SPA stacks
- Third party integrations: Firebase, AWS and many more
- AI assisted software delivery: from prompt engineering and agentic workflows to production ready implementation
02 Trust
Worked with.
03 Selected Work
Platforms that run businesses.
NetTV
One of the leading IPTV solutions in the Nepali market: package management, subscription management, reseller management, analytics, advertisement, reporting and many more.
Run a full IPTV business, packages, subscriptions, resellers, ads and reporting, as one coherent platform across web and TV devices.
Read the case studyGERP eBilling
Electronic billing software listed with the Internal Revenue Department (IRD) of the Government of Nepal, in full compliance with the Electronic Billing Directives 2074. A web based system that automates billing and invoice generation with respect to applicable taxes, managing reporting, finance and sales efficiently, deployable in the cloud or on premises.
Automate invoice generation under the strict requirements of Nepal's Electronic Billing Directives 2074 while staying flexible enough for any organization.
Read the case studyShangree.la
Bhutan's first integrated, tech driven media & entertainment company, based in Thimphu, a video OTT platform.
Read the case studyIPGear
ISPaaS platform whose ticketing module was significantly developed and enhanced, a user friendly interface for administrators, branch supervisors and field agents, plus comprehensive reporting for detailed data analysis.
Make ticket creation, tracking and resolution effortless for admins, branch supervisors and field agents, and make the data useful.
Read the case studyDristi (IPCAM)
An Internet Protocol camera platform: digital video cameras that receive control data and send image data via an IP network.
Read the case studyAds System
Advertising delivery across different platforms, the monetization layer behind the IPTV ecosystem.
Read the case studyNepal Telecommunications Authority
IP and DNS blocking system built for the national telecom regulator.
Read the case studyDataWorld
A data center and digital infrastructure platform focused on secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure, including data center connectivity, network infrastructure, fiber connectivity, and core and edge architecture.
Read the case studyUnderground
A fiber optic network planning and infrastructure management platform for designing, managing, and documenting underground telecom networks, including fiber routes, topology, cores, tubes, splicing, and connectivity.
Read the case studyBasantapur
A network of sites for Basantapur Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the heart of Kathmandu: a cultural gallery hub for the square's history and monuments, alongside dedicated sites for the businesses operating within it, a multi-stall food court, a heritage Newari cafe, and a Dhaka textile store.
Read the case studyNtTV
IPTV using FTTH for the Nepali market: package management, subscription management, reseller management, analytics, reporting and many more.
Read the case studyCoupon System
Coupon management, coupon generation and user management, examples include movie vouchers.
Read the case studyBenevity
Streamline, grow and track the impact of corporate grants with grants management software.
Read the case study04 Capabilities
The stack, end to end.
Frontend
Interfaces for the web and the living room, built to survive a decade of devices.
Backend & Data
The services and stores behind subscriptions, invoices and ad delivery.
DevOps & Quality
Pipelines and tests that make releases boring, which is the point.
Product & Leadership
Turning business goals into roadmaps, teams and shipped increments.
AI Assisted Delivery
Prompt engineering and agentic workflows, taken through to production code.
Platforms
The domains the work actually lives in: IPTV, OTT, billing and ads.
05 Leadership
Not just shipping code, shipping teams.
Team leadership
Managing cross functional teams at Genius Systems since 2019, setting strategic goals, aligning engineering with company objectives, and keeping quality standards high.
Mentorship & training
University lecturer, MERN stack instructor and project supervisor: hundreds of hours teaching React, Node and engineering practice, and mentoring junior engineers into strong ones.
Product ownership
Owning the product lifecycle from ideation to launch: strategy, roadmap, delivery and continuous enhancement, with Agile and Jira as the operating system.
Architecture & delivery
Hands on architecture for IPTV, eBilling, ads and analytics platforms, plus the CI/CD, testing and operational discipline that gets them shipped and keeps them up.
06 Philosophy
How I decide.
Six principles. Every one of them earned on a platform that had to stay up.
Build for scale, not hype.
Platforms that bill a country or stream to a living room can't chase trends. Every architecture decision starts from load, failure and growth.
Keep architecture understandable.
A system a new engineer can reason about in a week is worth more than a clever one only its author can operate.
Ship with quality.
Tests, CI/CD and review discipline aren't overhead, they're the reason releases are boring, and boring releases are the goal.
Automate repetitive work.
If a person does it twice a day, it belongs in a pipeline. People are for judgment, not repetition.
Make teams stronger, not dependent.
Years of teaching MERN cohorts and mentoring engineers taught me the same lesson: leadership that creates dependency isn't leadership.
Technology should solve business problems.
IPTV packages, IRD compliant invoices, ad delivery: the stack only matters when it moves an operational or revenue needle.
07 Foundations
Education & certifications.
Education
Nagarjuna College of IT
Bachelor of Information Management (B.I.M)
United Academy
H.S.E.B
Everest Secondary Boarding School
S.L.C
Certifications
09 Contact
Have a complex product to build?
Discuss a project or just want to say hi, my inbox is open for all.