Available for fintech & platform engineering work

Senior software engineer
building systems where money moves
and data can't drift.

I'm Bishal Poudel — a .NET & Azure engineer with 6+ years running backend systems for fintech and healthcare, where accuracy and uptime aren't negotiable. Currently building the remittance stack at Smartpay in Nicosia, Cyprus.

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0 Years in software engineering
0 Transactions processed daily
0 Person team led at Inficare
0 Compliance frameworks shipped under
  • C#
  • .NET Core / Framework
  • Microsoft Azure
  • .NET MAUI
  • Entity Framework · Dapper
  • Shift4
  • Plaid
  • Angular
  • Azure DevOps · CI/CD
  • ISO 27001 · PDPA · MAS

About

Six years of keeping money moving, on time and on record.

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Hello, I'm Bishal — a senior .NET developer who's spent the last six years building and running backend systems in fintech and healthcare. At Inficare I owned the full delivery lifecycle for a remittance platform processing 1,700+ transactions a day: architecture decisions, Azure infrastructure across three environments, disaster recovery planning, and leading a 9-person cross-functional team.

I'm equally comfortable on the compliance side — ISO 27001, PDPA, and MAS aren't just checkboxes to me, I've shipped production software under all three. Currently at Smartpay in Cyprus, I work across the full remittance stack: the web-based agent network, a .NET MAUI mobile app, and new online channels, with Shift4 card processing and Plaid open banking woven through the mobile client.

Currently Senior Software Developer, Smartpay
Based in Nicosia, Cyprus
Focus .NET · Azure · Compliant fintech systems
Certified ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor (training)

Experience

Where the work happened.

  1. Senior Software Developer

    SPSPI Smart Pay Services Payment Institution (Cyprus) Ltd.

    May 2025 — Present

    Nicosia, Cyprus

    • Reviewing and improving an existing remittance platform — identifying bottlenecks, refactoring legacy code, and introducing new integrations.
    • Leading the expansion from a physical agent network to online channels, reworking core flows for direct consumer transactions over web and mobile.
    • Building and maintaining a cross-platform remittance mobile app in .NET MAUI, covering onboarding through transaction history.
    • Integrated Shift4 for card processing — payment flows, tokenisation, and webhook-based notifications.
    • Integrated Plaid for open banking, enabling bank-linked transfers directly in the remittance workflow.

  2. Senior Software Developer

    Inficare Pvt. Ltd.

    Jan 2025 — Mar 2025

    Kathmandu, Nepal

    • Brought the remittance platform into full compliance with MAS, PDPA, and ISO 27001 — data handling policies, audit logging, access controls.
    • Led a cross-functional team of 9 — developers, QA, and a PM — running standups, sprint reviews, and code reviews.
    • Owned three environments with a full DR setup on production — Azure Front Door handled regional failover, keeping RTO under 3 hours.
    • Enforced deployment freezes around peak transaction periods, scheduling two releases a month around them.
    • Standardised Azure security practices across the team — Key Vault, RBAC, network isolation.

  3. Associate Senior Software Developer

    Inficare Pvt. Ltd.

    Jun 2024 — Jan 2025

    Kathmandu, Nepal

    • Architected .NET applications on Azure — App Services, Function Apps, and Service Bus for reliable async processing.
    • Built observability from the ground up: Application Insights, Azure Monitor dashboards, Log Analytics — cutting mean time to detect issues.
    • Owned CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, reducing deployment time and manual steps.
    • Profiled slow queries and code paths, applying targeted fixes that measurably improved response times.

  4. Software Developer

    Inficare Pvt. Ltd.

    Jul 2020 — Jun 2024

    Kathmandu, Nepal

    • Built and maintained REST APIs in C#/ASP.NET for a multi-currency remittance platform processing 1,700+ transactions daily.
    • Integrated third-party payment APIs and banking connectors, including retries, reconciliation, and edge-case handling.
    • Managed Azure deployments (Key Vault, Front Door, Azure SQL) with a focus on security and uptime.
    • Active across Agile ceremonies with a team of 8+ developers.

  5. Software Developer

    Clinis Pvt. Ltd.

    Feb 2019 — Jan 2020

    Kathmandu, Nepal

    • Wrote and optimised SQL Server queries, stored procedures, and triggers for a patient management system used across multiple hospital sites.
    • Built REST APIs in .NET connected to an Angular frontend — authentication, validation, and error handling end to end.
    • Automated recurring admin workflows with Windows Services and scheduled tasks, cutting manual effort for clinical staff.

  6. Freelance — UN IT Consultancy

    Climate Change Adaptation Division, Nepal Ministry of Forests and Environment

    • Built a monitoring and reporting system delivered under a UN IT consultancy contract.

Skills

The stack behind the systems.

.NET Ecosystem

.NET Core (2.2+), .NET Framework (4.5+), ASP.NET Web API, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework, Dapper

.NET CoreASP.NET Web API .NET MAUIEntity FrameworkDapper

Cloud & DevOps

Microsoft Azure end to end — App Services, Function Apps, Service Bus, SQL Database, Blob Storage, Key Vault, Front Door, Application Insights, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines.

AzureKey VaultFront Door Service BusAzure DevOps

Languages

C#, JavaScript, TypeScript

Mobile

.NET MAUI — cross-platform iOS & Android

Payments & Banking

Shift4 card processing, Plaid open banking

Frontend

Angular, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery

Databases

MSSQL Server — query optimisation, stored procedures, indexing

Compliance

ISO 27001, PDPA, MAS regulatory frameworks

Domain expertise

Systems where getting it wrong isn't an option.

Fintech & Remittance

Compliant remittance software with payment gateway integrations (Shift4, Plaid), banking APIs, real-time transaction processing, and regulatory reporting — plus the operational realities of real-time money movement: reconciliation, failure handling, audit trails.

Healthcare Systems

Patient data management systems for clinical environments, built around high data accuracy requirements, strict access controls, and workflow automation.

Civic & Community Platforms

A membership registration and approval portal for the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) — role-based access control, email notifications, and an admin approval workflow.

Certifications & Awards

  • ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Lead Auditor Certificate of Attendance
  • Standout Performer, 2021 Inficare Pvt. Ltd.

Education

  • Bachelor of Computer Engineering Advanced College of Engineering and Management · IOE, Tribhuvan University · 2014–2018
  • Higher Secondary Education Morgan International College · HSEB · 2012–2014

Contact

Let's build something that has to work.

Open to senior backend, platform, and fintech engineering roles. The fastest way to reach me is email — I'll get back to you promptly.

poudelbisal@gmail.com