Before
The manual state
Bookkeeping lived in Excel sheets and paper ledgers. Customer records were scattered, ticket tracking was manual, and there was no cloud backup, so every record the business had sat on one fragile path.
Background
The degree and the company ran at the same time, and kept handing things to each other. A database course became the agency's accounting schema; a VAT compliance seminar became the rules the ledger enforces. This page is both tracks on one timeline, because separating them was never honest.
Before
Bookkeeping lived in Excel sheets and paper ledgers. Customer records were scattered, ticket tracking was manual, and there was no cloud backup, so every record the business had sat on one fragile path.
After
A custom accounting system, cloud storage and backup, customer and B2B records, a public company site, and a workflow that lets a small team handle more without proportionally more effort.
Course to consequence
A filled node means that semester produced something that shipped. An empty one means it did not, and I would rather show the gap than invent a link.
Sem I
01Sem II
02Sem III
03Sem IV
04Sem V
05Sem VI
06Sem VII
07Sem VIII
08The record
2020
I completed SEE (SLC) with a GPA of 3.95.
2020-2022
Training
Travelport
Dec 2023
It connects classroom learning to the live workflow I use every day.
Connects to: Daily ticketing systems used at NSA Travels
Sabre
Feb-Mar 2024
I wanted fluency in the tools the business actually depends on.
Connects to: Core travel industry systems knowledge
Sabre
Apr-May 2024
This supports the more complex side of our ticketing work.
Connects to: Advanced day-to-day operations tooling
Travelport
May-Jun 2024
It expanded the systems knowledge I need at the travel desk.
Connects to: Deeper GDS and ticketing fluency
What it all fed into
Double-entry VAT accounting for Nepali ticketing agencies. Every sales invoice is filed with the tax office as it is issued, an issued invoice can never be edited afterwards, and one deployment serves every client, isolated by PostgreSQL row-level security.
Class XI GPA 3.70, Class XII GPA 3.55. I served as IT Club Secretary, which gave me my first taste of leadership, coordination, and public speaking.
Mar-Sep 2022
Structured IT training in MS Office, HTML/XHTML, CSS/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Bootstrap, CorelDraw, FreeHand, Digital Marketing, basic hardware, and project work.
2022-present
I started building the company's digital backbone while beginning B.Sc. CSIT at Madan Bhandari Memorial College. At this point the company was just my father and me.
2022-present
I built the accounting workflow, cloud storage and backup, customer and B2B records, and the company website. I also helped technically during the move toward IATA accreditation.
Dec 2023
I completed basic ticketing training aligned with the systems we use in day-to-day operations.
Feb-Mar 2024
Formal training in the core travel industry system stack.
Apr-May 2024
I went deeper into the operational tooling behind the agency's workflow.
May-Jun 2024
Further training for the ticketing and booking workflows we run every day.
Jul 2024
Training for travel industry professionals from NATTA and the Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal, delivered in Kathmandu on 30 July 2024. It fed directly into the compliant accounting system work.
2024
I added Galileo to the GDS stack I can work in, alongside Sabre and Travelport.
Aug 2026
Two prototypes in a fortnight, both aimed at a Nepali economic problem that is really an information problem. SipSetu turns a returnee migrant worker's spoken overseas history into a graded Skill Passport and an explainable job match. NiryatHub, built with team 4 NF, takes a producer from a spoken description of a consignment to a filed commercial invoice.
2023-present
UI/UX, WordPress, and Quality Assurance workshops; Advanced Java, Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Software Project Management, Advanced Database, and semester project work.
Galileo
2024
Knowing more than one GDS means I can reason about the workflow rather than one vendor's screens.
Connects to: The third GDS in the stack, alongside Sabre and Travelport
NATTA / Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal
Kathmandu, 30 July 2024
Training built for travel industry professionals. Accounting software in a small business has to respect the real tax workflow.
Connects to: The compliant, tax-aware accounting system
Usually quickest on WhatsApp, and I answer email the same day.
Written, built and maintained by Aalok Bhandari in Kathmandu, Nepal.