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How I got here.

I design the products, handle the sales, and lead the team that delivers them.

Swornim Sanjel, Founder & Managing Director, in Lalitpur
Based in
Lalitpur, Nepal
Role
Founder & Managing Director

The progression

  1. 01

    Graphic design, briefly

    After SEE I spent a few months on Photoshop and Illustrator. Grade 11 started, there wasn't time for both, and I stopped. I don't claim either tool now.

    What stuck was the habit of picking apart something finished to see the decisions inside it.

  2. 02

    Then interfaces, and those stayed

    In my first year at Herald I learned HTML, CSS and JavaScript and built things with them. At the same time I started teaching myself UI properly, in Figma, and did that nearly every day for about two years.

    I built a lot of screens. Product pages, mobile apps, dashboards, component sets, wireframes. Most of it was never briefed by anyone. I picked a problem, designed it, and posted the result. That's still where most of it lives.

    The internship at Herald was the first time it was somebody else's requirement with somebody else's deadline. I was the only designer on it.

  3. 03

    A year of customers

    At Scalestro I was client success and organic growth manager for a year, full-time, while studying. Client calls, project management, retention, and the content side of growth.

    It was the hardest I had worked to that point and it changed how I design. On a call with an owner you stop asking what a product should have and start asking what should stop happening. That's still the first question I ask in a requirements meeting.

  4. 04

    Design work alongside all of it

    Fourteen months of brand and social content for SOPdrafts Nepal. Content strategy and short-form video for Mountain Routes, a trekking company whose customers are almost all overseas, making reels in volume, week after week.

    Most of it overlapped, which is why the dates run into each other.

  5. 05

    Avernek

    I registered Avernek Technologies in 2026 and run it as Founder and Managing Director. I find the clients and sit in the meetings. I work out what a business is actually asking for, which is rarely what they said first. I price it, close it, and design what we deliver.

    Inside the company I lead the team, set how we work, and take the problems that don't have an owner yet. We are three people. Most of what I know about running a company I have learned in the last year and a half, in public, on live clients.


Experience

Experience

May 2026 to Present

Founder & Managing Director

Avernek Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Building Avernek with a founding team across AI automation, performance marketing, AI video and digital systems. I own the business side: sales, delivery, and whether a client is glad they signed.

Full-time · On-site

Feb 2026 to Present

Content Strategy & Social Media Lead

Mountain Routes

End-to-end organic content for a Nepali trekking company whose clients are almost entirely foreign trekkers across Europe, North America and Australia. Monthly performance reporting to the owner.

Freelance · Remote

Jul 2025 to Aug 2026

Social Media & Brand Content Designer

SOPdrafts Nepal

Fourteen months of static brand content for an SOP and visa services business. The posts and brand updates that keep a small company's presence consistent.

Part-time · Remote

Aug 2025 to Jul 2026

CSM & Organic Growth Manager

Scalestro

Client success and organic growth: project management, client communication, and the content side of retention. The year that taught me what customers actually complain about.

Full-time · Remote

Jun 2025 to Sep 2025

UI/UX Design Intern

Development Platform HCK

Sole UI/UX designer on HCK Core, a resource-sharing platform with dedicated student and teacher portals covering academic modules, extra learning resources and community features.

Internship · On-site


Education

Education

Nov 2024 to May 2027

BSc (Hons) Computer Science

Herald College Kathmandu · University of Wolverhampton


Tools

What I work in

Capability is on the home page. This is only what the week is spent inside.

Tools

Design

  • Figma· Primary tool
  • Adobe XD

Prototyping

  • Claude Code
  • Claude
  • ChatGPT

Learned & built with

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

I'm not a developer and don't present myself as one. I learned the web languages in my first year and built with them; these days I design, and prototype with AI when that's the faster way to see if an idea works.