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Janaki Technology started in 2007 with a few of us writing code as engineering students at Pulchowk Campus. That instinct, build it simple, build it useful, carried through Sparrow SMS and into Khalti, which I now help run as Managing Director. Nearly two decades later, we still measure ourselves by whether what we ship actually makes life easier for people in Nepal.

I joined Janaki Technology in 2009, two years after Manish, Arbin, and Dhruba started it at Pulchowk Campus, and helped build Sparrow SMS into Nepal's leading bulk SMS platform. In 2017 we launched Khalti with the same conviction: that digitizing payments could bring an entire country closer to a cashless future. That work earned Khalti the ICT Entrepreneur Award in 2019, but the real reward is the reach it's given ordinary Nepalis.

I own the engineering decisions behind everything Janaki Technology has shipped since 2007, from the messaging infrastructure under Sparrow SMS to the systems that keep Khalti processing payments securely at scale. Nineteen years of uptime taught us that trust is built in the unglamorous work: reliability, security, and never cutting corners on either.

I've served as Managing Director of Janaki Technology since we founded it in 2007, overseeing the operations that let Sparrow SMS and Khalti scale reliably. Since 2017 I've also directed Khalti's push into digital financial literacy, because a payment platform only matters if people trust it enough to actually use it.

I took over as CEO in 2022, carrying forward a legacy the founders spent fifteen years building. My focus now is on taking Janaki's strong foundation in bulk messaging and digital payments into its next chapter: expanding into new channels like WhatsApp Business, deepening our enterprise solutions, and ensuring Nepali businesses stay closely connected to the customers who depend on them.

Ojash Thapa is a Chartered Accountant and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Janaki Technology Pvt. Ltd. Ojash has been bringing professional experience in finance, accounting, auditing, and financial management. He is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a bachelor's degree from Bangalore University.