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Nikesh Parajuli

Engineer Lead & Fullstack Developer

10+ years building scalable web apps, gamification platforms, and AWS microservices.

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The brief

I'm a fullstack developer with over a decade of experience shipping production software — from PHP CMSes in 2014 to React/Node microservices on AWS today.

Currently Engineer Lead at WUSH, where I work on the core platform (wush.co), the dare.wush.co product, and a risk-assessment calculator alongside interactive brand games.

Previously spent six years at Amnil Technologies — most of it seconded to 3Radical, building gamification experiences (board games, quizzes, wheel of fortune, photo contests) shipped by Western Sydney University, NAB, Standard Chartered, Stride Gaming, Lions Club International and others.

Comfortable across the stack: React/Vue/Angular on the frontend, Node and PHP on the backend, AWS (Lambda, Batch, ECS, EventBridge) for infra, and PhaserJS when something needs to be fun.

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Skills & tools

Frontend
ReactVue.jsAngularJSIonicBootstrapjQuery
Backend
Node.jsPHPCodeIgniterLaravelZendWordPress
Cloud & DevOps
AWS EC2AWS LambdaAWS ECSAWS BatchEventBridgeECRDockerRedis
Data
MySQLMongoDBRedis
Integrations
REST APIsSalesforceHubSpotVtexPara-ioAttentiveSSO
Game & Other
PhaserJSMicroservicesBatch ScriptsBitbucket

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Experience

  1. Engineer Lead · WUSH

    Aug 2024 — Present

    • Lead engineering on wush.co (main product) and dare.wush.co.
    • Built a risk-assessment calculator and a suite of interactive brand games.
    • Drive product improvement and platform development end-to-end.
    Node.jsReactAWSPhaserJS

  2. Sr. Software Engineer · Amnil Technologies (seconded to 3Radical)

    Mar 2018 — Aug 2024

    • Shipped gamification experiences (board games, quizzes, wheel of fortune, fortune cookie, polling, rating) as React/Lambda microservices integrated with 3Radical's core product, Voco.
    • Delivered integrations for Western Sydney University (student onboarding), NAB (Digifit Challenge), Standard Chartered (theCyberSpace), Stride Gaming (Kitty Bingo, Aspers Online), Azzurri Group (Zizzi), Lions Club International (photo contest), HUE USA/Canada.
    • Built API integrations for Salesforce, HubSpot, Para-io, Rainbow API, Vtex, and Attentive on Node.js.
    • Wrote a Lambda to auto-scale ECS task counts and Auto Scaling Group capacity via the AWS SDK.
    • Refactored core application to API-repository pattern; dockerized and containerized core services.
    • Built a React SSO app gating all brands on a server using Para-io as backend.
    • Built Ncell's chatbot using Botpress (extended with API calls, reporting, and Twitter via converse-api).
    • Built NIC Asia Bank's website on CodeIgniter 3.
    Node.jsReactVue.jsAngularJSPhaserJSAWS LambdaAWS BatchMySQLRedis

  3. Web Application Developer (PHP) · Improvement Company Nepal

    Jun 2016 — Jan 2018

    • Built a tracking system with barcode readers/printers on CodeIgniter + MySQL.
    • Wrote scripts to enhance UX and integrated them with the CMS.
    PHPCodeIgniterMySQLBootstrapjQuery

  4. Web Application Developer (PHP) · Grafi Offshore Nepal

    Jun 2014 — Jun 2016

    • Built systems in PHP across Zend, Laravel, CodeIgniter, and WordPress.
    • Mixed Bootstrap, jQuery, and MySQL with PHP framework stacks across team projects.
    PHPZendLaravelCodeIgniterWordPressMySQL

Waypoints

Selected work

Product

Nandini — nandinilabs.com

nandinilabs.com

Embeddable gamification SaaS, built end-to-end: a marketer studio, a NestJS API, a sub-5.3 KB loader snippet for any site, and 16 games (spin-the-wheel, scratch cards, quizzes, and more). Self-hosted on AWS.

SaaS · Next.js · NestJS · MongoDB · AWS

Product

wush.co

wush.co

WUSH's main product site. I lead engineering on the platform and its supporting services.

Product · Fullstack · AWS

Product

dare.wush.co

dare.wush.co

Interactive brand-game product from WUSH. End-to-end build and ongoing development.

Gamification · React · Node.js

Product

Voco gamification microservices

Suite of React/Lambda packages (board game, quiz, polling, rating, fortune cookie, wheel of fortune, copy-to-clipboard) that plug into 3Radical's core product. Shipped to Western Sydney University, NAB, Standard Chartered, Stride Gaming, Lions Club International and more.

React · AWS Lambda · Microservices · PhaserJS

Integration

Ncell Chatbot

Botpress-based chatbot for Ncell with API calls, reporting, and multi-channel support (Twitter via converse-api).

Botpress · Node.js · Integrations

Product

NIC Asia Bank Website

Bank website built on CodeIgniter 3, Bootstrap, jQuery, and MySQL.

PHP · CodeIgniter · MySQL

Game

Letter Rush

nikesh811084.itch.io/letter-rush

Word-search game on itch.io.

PhaserJS · Game

Game

Collect 'Em All

nikesh811084.itch.io/collect-em-all

Arcade collector game on itch.io.

PhaserJS · Game

Game

Kitty Cannon Remake

nikesh811084.itch.io/kitty-cannon-remake

Remake of the classic Kitty Cannon flash game.

PhaserJS · Game

Game

Marriage — Nepali Rummy

nikesh811084.itch.io/marriage-nepali-rummy

Digital take on Marriage, the popular Nepali rummy card game, on itch.io.

PhaserJS · Game

The record

Education

  • BSc (Hons) in Computing

    Islington College / London Metropolitan University

    Sep 2014

  • International Advanced Diploma in Computing

    Islington College / Informatics Academy

    Sep 2012

  • International Diploma in Computing

    Islington College / Informatics Academy

    Feb 2012