Ushaan Shrestha · Product & Project Manager

About

I started in software delivery as a Flutter developer: translating product requirements into cross-platform apps, and building and deploying AttendEase to Google Play and the App Store.

Working that closely with product managers and owners pulled me to the other side of the table. As Associate Project Manager at Islington College's IT Research & Development unit, I led 50+ people across 7+ specialised teams and planned delivery for 5+ multi-tenant projects.

Today I'm a Product Manager at Pexus Tech. I own the full path from client request to release: requirements elicitation, feasibility and effort estimation, SRS and PRD authoring, scope and change control, acceptance criteria, data-migration planning and launch readiness.

Alongside that, I supervise final-year projects for 35+ BSc IT students at Islington College.

Away from software, I'm Creative Head & Admin and a Senior Swim Teacher at Swimming Everyday Nepal, and a certified Swim Australia Teacher.

• 4+ years in software delivery, from developer to PM
• 50+ people led across 7+ specialised teams
• 8,000+ students served by a portal I built from scratch
• 10+ company tenants on a multi-tenant MIS I own

Education

• MBA in Project Management, Islington College (awarded by London Metropolitan University), 2024 – 2025. Distinction, average 71.06%.
• BSc (Hons) Computing, Islington College (awarded by London Metropolitan University), 2019 – 2022. First Class Honours, average 73.89%.

Case studies

Products I've worked on, most of them at Pexus Tech, each with the scope of my involvement.

AttendEase

College management and attendance platform · Flutter developer → Product Manager · Pexus Tech · Product ownership

A college management and attendance platform I helped build as a Flutter developer and went on to own as Product Manager.

Odoo MIS

Multi-tenant management information system · Product Manager · Pexus Tech · Product ownership

A multi-tenant MIS serving 10+ company tenants, which I owned from discovery and backlog prioritisation through release.

Certify

Dynamic certificate generation and validation · Feature owner · Pexus Tech · Feature ownership

A configurable, multi-tenant platform where organisations generate their own certificates and verify issued ones through a validation portal.

inRol

Student enrollment and registration · Feature owner · Pexus Tech · Feature ownership

An established enrollment system for 6+ tenants, where I owned features and change requests, including Devanagari contracts and bus cards.

Tracking

Task and project tracking · Feature owner · Pexus Tech · Feature ownership

A workflow-oriented task and project management system: create, assign, track status, manage deadlines and organise work by project.

Ticketing

Issue and ticket resolution · Business logic contributor · Pexus Tech · Business logic

An internal issue-resolution system where I shaped the business logic: how tickets are raised, routed to departments and resolved.

Pexus Ingine

AI intern tracking and client management · Change-request owner · Pexus Tech · Change requests

A business operations platform for intern tracking, dynamic surveys and client management, evolved through change requests I owned.

Hackarena

Bug bounty platform · Project manager · Pexus Tech · Delivery

A bug bounty platform where my role was project management: keeping delivery on track against its planned timeline.

Multi-team Delivery Portfolio

Resource allocation across concurrent projects · Associate Project Manager · IT Research & Development, Islington College · Delivery

Planning and overseeing 5+ large-scale, multi-tenant projects with 50+ people across 7+ specialised teams.

Also on my desk

• AI Tutor (IT R&D, Islington College): Defined the product scope for a RAG-style chatbot that answers strictly from user-uploaded PDFs and books.

Research & Publications

The Study of Tight Deadlines and Resource Constraints on Micromanagement Practices and Employee Motivation in the IT Sector

MBA Dissertation · MBA in Project Management · Research completed · Dissertation submitted · Publication pending

A survey of 316 IT professionals found that both constraints predicted more micromanagement, their direct effects on motivation were not statistically significant, and micromanagement positively mediated the relationship between the constraints and motivation.

Skills & certifications

Core competencies

• Business Analysis & Requirements: Client elicitation, SRS and PRD authoring, functional and non-functional requirements, acceptance criteria.
• Planning & Coordination: Feasibility and effort estimation, roadmaps, sprint and PI planning, resource allocation across teams.
• Scope Management & Change Control: Change request logging, in-scope / out-of-scope decisions, backlog prioritisation.
• Risk & Release Readiness: Security (VAPT) risk coordination, prioritisation, launch timeline definition, stakeholder progress reporting.
• Data Migration: Planning and scheduling data moves during server and database migrations.

Tools & methods

• Practice: Business Analysis, Planning, Coordination, Requirements, Scope Management, Change Control
• Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), DSDM, Lean Six Sigma
• Collaboration: ClickUp, Slack, Discord, Trello
• Technical literacy: Flutter & Dart, AWS (cloud fundamentals), Django (Python), Java, Oracle SQL
• Version control: Git, GitHub, GitLab
• Design & communication: Canva

Certifications

• Registered Product Owner (RPO), Scrum Inc.
• Google Project Management: Professional Certificate, Google. Courses: Foundations of Project Management; Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project; Project Planning: Putting It All Together; Project Execution: Running the Project; Agile Project Management; Capstone: Applying Project Management in the Real World
• Cloud Computing Core Concepts, CompTIA
• Introduction to Cybersecurity, Cisco Networking Academy
• Crash Course on Python, Google
• Introduction to Psychology, Yale University
• Swim Australia Teacher, Swim Coaches & Teachers Australia

Experience

Product Manager, Pexus Tech

Jul 2025 – Now · Kathmandu, Nepal

• Own AttendEase, a biometric attendance tracking and reporting platform used by 500+ staff and teachers, and built its student portal from scratch: now serving 8,000+ students across 5+ educational institutions.
• Lead client requirement elicitation and author the SRS and PRDs, covering functional and non-functional needs.
• Define acceptance criteria for every requirement, giving engineering and QA a clear basis for sign-off.
• Run change control in ClickUp, recording in-scope and out-of-scope decisions in sprint and PI plans with the team.
• Coordinate security risk analysis (VAPT) with the security team and set launch timelines from the findings.
• Plan and schedule data migrations during server and database migrations.
• Own Odoo MIS, a multi-tenant management information system serving 10+ company tenants, including its HRMS and Procurement modules.
• Own product definition for a Student Enrollment System, an end-to-end enrolment platform for academic institutions.
• Contribute across other Pexus Tech products: feature ownership on Certify, inRol and Tracking; business-logic input on Ticketing; change requests on Pexus Ingine; and delivery management for Hackarena.

Final Year Project Supervisor, Islington College

2024 – Now · Kathmandu, Nepal

• Supervise the final-year theses of 35+ students on the Bachelor's in IT programme.
• Guide students through conceptualisation, research, development, documentation and presentation of their projects.
• Mentor students, facilitate brainstorming sessions and give constructive feedback that shapes their ideas.

Associate Project Manager, IT Research & Development, Islington College

Dec 2023 – Jul 2025 · Kathmandu, Nepal

• Led and allocated work across 50+ cross-functional members in 7+ specialised teams (frontend, backend, QA, DevOps, database).
• Planned and oversaw delivery of 5+ large-scale, multi-tenant projects for educational institutions, marketing organisations and IT offices.
• Ran feasibility and effort estimates before accepting projects, aligning scope with each client's business goals and technical requirements.
• Built and maintained portfolio roadmaps covering tasks, timelines, milestones and resource allocation.
• Defined the product scope for AI Tutor, a RAG-style chatbot that answers strictly from user-uploaded PDFs and books.

Mobile Application Developer, IT Research & Development, Islington College

Aug 2022 – Aug 2024 · Kathmandu, Nepal

• Translated product requirements into shipped cross-platform Flutter apps, working closely with product managers and owners.
• Built and deployed AttendEase to Google Play and the App Store, integrating Spring Boot backends for a 35% improvement in responsiveness and data sync.
• Delivered pixel-perfect UI from Figma at 95% design fidelity.

Session Volunteer, Hour of Code · WLiT Nepal fellowship

Jun 2022 · Sanothimi, Bhaktapur

• Volunteered at SOS Hermann Gmeiner School as part of the WLiT Nepal fellowship team.
• Helped students understand programming fundamentals such as conditionals and loops.
• Guided students through the "Minecraft Hour of Code" puzzles and documented the workshop visually.

Core Organizer / Moderator, Autumn AI · with CodinGame

Aug – Sep 2020 · Islington College × CodinGame

• Organised a seven-day AI programming contest with CodinGame to get Islington students practising AI; the wider CodinGame community took part too.
• Managed and motivated 451 contestants to submit their first AI.
• Oversaw all communication on the server and maintained the code of conduct.
• Ran a workshop for mentors and guided the organising team through their assigned tasks.

Beyond tech: teaching people to swim

Creative Head & Admin / Senior Swim Teacher, Swimming Everyday Nepal · Jan 2024 – Now · Kathmandu, Nepal

I teach children with special needs, including children with autism and Down syndrome.

In the water

• Design and run structured lesson plans tailored to students' ages, abilities and progressive development goals.
• Teach children with special needs, including autism and Down syndrome.

Running the school

• Manage and schedule a roster of coaches, coordinating assignments and sessions to keep day-to-day operations running smoothly.
• Handle customer and student relationships end to end: counselling parents, students and instructors, and resolving inquiries and issues promptly.
• Run market research, produce promotional materials and manage social channels while overseeing health and safety compliance.

Certificates

• Swim Australia Teacher: Accreditation (PDF)
• Swim Australia Teacher: Certificate of completion (PDF)

Contact

• Email: ushaan.shrestha@gmail.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ushaan-shrestha
• Instagram: @ushaanshrestha
• Download my résumé (PDF)
• Based in Kathmandu, Nepal