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PrashannaMaharjan

Building secure, real-time products with React, Next.js, Electron & React Native — from end-to-end encryption to production SaaS.

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Prashanna Maharjan, Full-Stack & Electron.js Engineer, in Kathmandu
Kathmandu, Nepal

01About

From a million-view blog to encrypted desktop apps.

A self-taught engineer from Kathmandu who learned to ship by shipping — and never stopped.

“I care less about the framework of the month and more about whether the thing is secure, fast, and actually ships to real users.”

My path didn’t start with a CS degree — it started with writing. A Nepali essay blog I built and ranked with SEO crossed 1 million+ readers, and that first taste of building something people actually used pulled me into engineering for good.

From there I taught myself the MERN stack, then went deep where it mattered: cryptography, end-to-end encryption, and real-time systems. At Vrit Technologies I built an Electron desktop authenticator with client-side E2E encryption and OS-level auth; today at Advice Ninja I’m building secure, scalable SaaS for an Australian product team.

Alongside the code, I’ve led people — as IT Head of TEDx Baneshwor and Career Carnival, and as a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador running workshops for hundreds of students. I like building teams as much as I like building software.

readers reached through SEO-led content
1M+readers reached through SEO-led content
production products shipped end-to-end
4production products shipped end-to-end
students reached across workshops & events
1080+students reached across workshops & events

02Selected work

Things I’ve shipped.

Four production products — desktop, SaaS, and high-traffic marketing sites. Each one shipped to real users. Follow any of them into a full write-up.

01/04Electron.js · React · Cryptography

Auth Sync — Cross-platform authenticator

A desktop SaaS for secure TOTP and vault sharing with full client-side end-to-end encryption — nothing leaves the device unencrypted.

Built
AES-256-GCM & RSA-SHA cryptography, WebSocket real-time sync, OS-level auth (WebAuthn, Windows Hello), and signed multi-OS installers for Windows, Linux & macOS.
Shipped
Auto-update CI/CD via Electron Builder, S3 & GitHub Actions, with code signing on Windows and macOS.
  • Electron.js
  • React
  • AES-256-GCM
  • WebAuthn
  • WebSockets
  • GitHub Actions
Read the case study
Auth Sync — desktop app
Encrypted vaultSynced
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AAWSroot@vrit236 574
VVercelteam905 118
AES-256-GCM · client-side only
Desktop application · interface representation

02/04Next.js · React · Real-time

Orbit Chat — AI chatbot CRM & landing site

An embeddable AI chatbot SaaS. I built both the SEO-optimized landing page and the real-time, data-heavy CRM behind it — unified inboxes, bot training and assignment workflows.

Built
WebSocket-based real-time messaging and inbox updates feeding high-throughput dashboards, on an SSR Next.js frontend.
Scaled
A clean, component-driven React CRM with shadcn/ui, Zustand, Zod, Nuqs and TanStack Query & Table.
  • Next.js
  • WebSockets
  • Zustand
  • TanStack
  • Zod
  • shadcn/ui
Read the case studyorbitchat.ai
orbitchat.ai — landing page
The Orbit Chat marketing site showing its AI customer-support chat product

03/04Next.js · TypeScript · CRM

Vrit Technologies — Company site & production CRM

A full redesign of the company website alongside a production-grade internal CRM, both on Next.js with SSR, TypeScript and a component-driven architecture built to be extended.

Built
Real-time updates and notifications over WebSockets, with rich text editing, schema-validated forms and data tables.
Architected
A scalable component system on Framer Motion, Zustand, Zod, React Hook Form, shadcn/ui, Editor.js and TanStack Query & Table, released through GitHub Actions.
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Editor.js
  • Framer Motion
  • TanStack
  • CI/CD
Read the case studyvrittechnologies.com
vrittechnologies.com
The redesigned Vrit Technologies company website

04/04Next.js · SEO · Performance

Everest Thrills — SEO-first rebuild

A client website rebuilt on an SEO-first, server-rendered Next.js architecture, focused on organic growth, performance and content discoverability.

Built
SSR data fetching, generateStaticParams, JSON-LD structured data, Open Graph metadata, dynamic sitemap generation and image optimization.
Improved
Largest Contentful Paint, following Next.js SEO and performance best practices throughout.
  • Next.js
  • SSR
  • JSON-LD
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Open Graph
Read the case studyeverestthrills.com
everestthrills.comOpen
The Everest Thrills trekking company website with a Himalayan hero image

Also building & experimenting

03Experience

Growth, not job titles.

A path from community leadership into shipping secure products for international teams.
  1. Feb 2026 — PresentCurrent

    Full-Stack Engineer · Advice Ninja

    Australian-based product company

    • Leading development of SaaS products including an Authenticator App and a CMS serving 3+ affiliated companies, implementing secure authentication (JWT, 2FA) and scalable full-stack features.
    • Working across Next.js, PostgreSQL, TanStack Query & Table, Nuqs, AWS S3 and Zod validation to build performant APIs, manage data and ship production-ready deployments — with a focus on clean architecture and efficient state management.
  2. Jul 2025 — Jan 2026

    Frontend & Electron.js Engineer · Vrit Technologies

    Auth Sync · Orbit Chat · Everest Thrills · company site & CRM

    • Contributed across the product line: the Vrit Tech website and CRM, the Orbit Chat landing site and SaaS CRM, Auth Sync, and the Everest Thrills client site.
    • Went deep on cryptography and end-to-end encryption, OAuth and JWT authentication, Electron desktop architecture, and SEO-first SSR.
    • Owned CI/CD pipelines through GitHub Actions and API integration via Next.js fetch and Axios, applying Next.js performance and SEO best practices throughout.
  3. Jan 2025 — PresentCurrent

    Student Ambassador · Microsoft Learn

    • Organized a Git and GitHub workshop for 80+ participants, teaching version control and collaborative development.
    • Helped grow the Microsoft Learn community by engaging students and fostering a hands-on learning environment.
  4. Aug 2024 — Feb 2025

    IT Head · TEDx Baneshwor

    • Led a team of developers to build the official tedxbaneshwor.com website and drove the event’s technical setup.
    • Built the site on Next.js, ShadCN, React and TypeScript with Git and GitHub for collaboration, keeping performance and SEO in scope from the start.
  5. Jun 2024 — Sep 2024

    IT Head · Career Carnival

    • Led a team to organize Career Carnival for 1000+ participants, managing marketing, content and social media.
    • Ran a web development workshop as part of the programme.

Education

  • BSc (Hons) Computer Science

    Taylor’s University — IIMS College

    Sep 2024 — Present

  • +2 Computer Science

    Kathmandu Model College

    Aug 2022 — Aug 2024 · GPA 3.62

  • SEE

    Siddhartha Vanasthali Institute

    Apr 2010 — Apr 2022 · GPA 3.44

Achievements

  • Winner — Saral Sikshya Intercollege Hackathon
  • 3rd place — UTC Intercollege Idea Pitching Competition
  • “Most Creative Video” — Kathmandu Model College competition
  • 1M+ views — essayinnepali.blogspot.com

04Technology ecosystem

How it all connects.

Not a list of skill bars — a living map of the tools I reach for, and how they actually depend on each other. Isolate a domain, or follow a single node to see what it touches.
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwindReact NativeFramer MotionZZustandTanStack QueryZodNNuqsReact Hook FormNode.jsExpressWSWebSocketsElectron.jsElectron BuilderWWebAuthnMongoDBPostgreSQLS3AWS S3GitHub ActionsDockerCCryptographyJWT / 2FAOOAuthFrontend: The layer users actually touch — components, routing, rendering strategy. State: Server state, client state and URL state, each kept in its own place. Backend: APIs, runtimes and the real-time transport underneath them. Desktop: Cross-platform desktop — packaging, signing, auto-update, OS-level auth. Data: Relational and document stores behind the products. Cloud: Storage, containers and the pipelines that ship releases. Security: Cryptography, authentication and the parts that must not be guessed at.

Pick a domain above, or tap any node to trace what it connects to.

05The résumé

Read it. Don’t download it.

Rendered as real text rather than an embedded PDF — so it works on a phone, and a search engine can actually read it. The original file is still one click away.
Prashanna-Maharjan-CV

Prashanna Maharjan

Full-Stack & Electron.js Engineer

Self-taught full-stack engineer with hands-on experience across React, Next.js, Electron.js, React Native, TypeScript and cryptography, plus React Hook Form, Zod, Zustand, TanStack Query and Nuqs. Worked at Vrit Technologies contributing to multiple SEO-optimized, SSR-based products; now building secure, scalable SaaS at Advice Ninja. As IT Head of TEDx Baneshwor and a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador I have led teams and organized workshops, with strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Languages & core
JavaScript · TypeScript · React.js · Node.js
Frameworks
Next.js · Electron.js · React Native · Express.js
Data & state
PostgreSQL · MongoDB · TanStack Query · Zustand · Redux · Zod
Security
Cryptography & E2E encryption · AES-256-GCM · JWT & 2FA · OAuth · WebAuthn

Currently

Full-Stack Engineer · Advice Ninja

Feb 2026 — Present

Australian-based product company

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Experience, projects, education, technical skills and achievements — the complete document, formatted for reading rather than for a printer.

Open to opportunities · Currently at Advice Ninja

Let’s build something meaningful.

Have a product that needs to be secure, real-time, and genuinely well-built? I’d love to hear about it.

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