Portrait of Gokul Adhikari

Located
in Kathmandu,
Nepal

Product Manager
& Co-Founder

Gokul Adhikari, Product Manager & Co-Founder

Helping teams turn ambitious ideas into products people love to use. Clear priorities, calm delivery, no fluff.

Product thinking, an engineering background and hands-on delivery leadership. I sit right where business goals meet working software.

About me

Recent work

From Kathmandu, worldwide

Shipping products with teams and clients across borders.

Years building software
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Years as co-founder
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  • Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Clients: USA · Spain · Netherlands · Belgium · Dubai

How I can help

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Product strategy & ownership

Discovery, roadmaps and ruthless prioritisation. I turn fuzzy goals into a backlog the team believes in, keeping the end user at the centre of every trade-off.

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Delivery leadership

Agile delivery for cross-functional teams of developers, QA, DevOps and business. Sprint planning, stakeholder alignment and predictable releases for international clients.

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Technical depth

A backend engineer at heart. I speak architecture, APIs, cloud and AI integrations fluently, so I can translate between engineers and non-technical stakeholders and get real buy-in.

Experience

Eight years, from writing the code to owning the product.

  1. Co-founded Codedrops Tech and lead cross-functional teams across SaaS platforms, AI-powered systems, AI-based content creation, travel planning and communication products, from requirements to production.

    • Led delivery of AI-powered communication and VoIP-based SaaS platforms integrating real-time systems and cloud telephony.
    • Run Agile delivery end to end: sprint planning, backlog grooming, prioritisation and stakeholder reporting.
    • Improved project visibility and workflow efficiency through structured Agile processes and better team coordination.
    • Manage multiple concurrent client projects, supporting CI/CD, deployment workflows and cloud infrastructure.

  2. Led product development for a Netherlands-based AI company focused on compliance and enterprise workflow solutions.

    • Led development of an AI-powered GDPR compliance platform, with Microsoft Word/Outlook plugins and browser extensions that scan, identify and highlight GDPR violations in documents.
    • Managed delivery of a real-world asset tokenization platform built on Tokeny infrastructure for fractionalised asset workflows.
    • Contributed to architecture and backend execution for healthcare reporting systems used by medical professionals, with GDPR and HIPAA in mind.
    • Built and managed the teams behind websites, Office plugins, browser extensions and backend systems; ran technical workshops with partners including Tokeny.

  3. Built and maintained backend services, automation tools and data processing workflows for internal and client-facing products.

    • Worked on data extraction systems, including handwritten bank form text extraction and structured storage in databases.
    • Supported document automation systems that reduced manual data entry.

  4. Built websites and custom backends for international clients, including SaaS platforms like Logme, Bytemine and FollowMedia, using Node.js, Flask, Docker and Nginx.

Product & delivery

  • Roadmapping
  • Discovery
  • Backlog & prioritisation
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Stakeholder management
  • Jira
  • ClickUp
  • Trello
  • Notion / Confluence
  • Slack

Technology

  • Node.js
  • Go
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • LLM integrations
  • AI agent workflows
Gokul Adhikari

About

I build high-performing teams and great products.

I'm Gokul Adhikari, a product manager and co-founder based in Kathmandu, Nepal, who started out writing backend code. Today I focus on building strong teams with a real quality culture, and on giving them the clarity to ship their best work while I manage stakeholder expectations.

I take a pragmatic approach to problem solving and keep the end users of a product top of mind when prioritising and delivering work. I'm good at explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, which is how good product decisions get buy-in.

In every role I've stayed close to the tools. Keeping my development skills sharp helps me understand, and lead, the work my teams do.

Kind words

“One of the fine freelancers I have worked with. Proper consultation and explanation about the features of my product. It was very satisfactory work from him.”
Jack Lacky Owner, Crypto Mooner
“Thank you for the complete consultancy software you provided, it is as good as I wanted. The software and budget were on point. Hope to work together in the coming days.”
RC Oli CEO, Secured Life International Group
“It was nice working with Gokul and his team on multiple projects. A very friendly and energetic team. Hoping to work further with them.”
Anish Gurung CEO, Westun
“I was very impressed with their work. From design to functionality it was very satisfactory, and the app was delivered on time. Thanks!”
Nischal Shrestha CTO, LogMe

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