The Story

Before the CCNA, before Canada, before the home lab — there was a small institute in Kathmandu and a soldering iron.

During COVID, after finishing school, I enrolled in a technical training program at Kantipur Technical Institute covering chip-level laptop repair, Android mobile repair, and desktop/laptop hardware and networking. It ran for about 8 to 10 months, and it was one of the most hands-on things I've ever done.

I remember waking up early every morning and walking to the institute. In the beginning, even opening a laptop case felt like a big deal. By the end, I was diagnosing dead boards, reading schematic diagrams, and repairing real customer laptops — not just practice units.

The thing that surprised me most was schematic reading. Understanding how power flows through a board, tracing circuits, finding a fault — it changed how I think about hardware entirely. That foundation quietly shows up in everything I do now.

It wasn't glamorous. But it was real, practical, and taught me how to think about broken things — which turns out to be the most useful skill in IT.

Before networking took over, I coordinated operations at Nepamed Healthcare — logistics and supply chains. That experience permanently changed how I think about infrastructure: technology that doesn't solve a real problem for a real person is just expensive noise.

Toronto. A Computer Systems Networking diploma from Canadore College; CCNA, CCST, and Google IT Support in hand. The goal is network architecture — not just moving packets, but understanding the business problems those packets are supposed to solve.