Namaste, I'm Aastha — Dallas–Fort Worth, via Kathmandu
Engineer. Realtor. Investor. Mum.
In 2016 I moved from Kathmandu to the United States for my master's in computer science — carried by my dreams and my family's support. Today I write Android code that millions of people trust with their money, I hold a Texas real-estate license, and my husband and I are mid-renovation on our third investment property — while our two boys keep us honest about what hard work really means. I believe in manifestation. I believe in work more.
My Story
Nobody handed me any of this.
Where I started
I grew up in Biratnagar and moved to Kathmandu on my own as a teenager for high school — science track, graduated with distinction. Then a degree in electrical & electronics engineering.
Help desk to boardroom
My first job was answering broadband support calls at WorldLink. Two years later I was presenting fiber and 4G rollouts to Ncell and Nepal Telecom executives for Huawei. That's where I learned that engineering and selling are the same skill: know your numbers, respect your customer.
The bet on myself
GRE, an admission letter, savings from my Huawei years — and my parents behind me whenever I needed them. A master's in computer science, a campus app built while studying, and a wedding the same year I graduated. America gave me the stage; I brought the work ethic.
2 AM feeds and Kotlin
My first son came in 2020, my second in 2024 — the same year I passed the Texas real-estate exam. People ask me how. Honestly: when nothing was ever handed to you, you'd be surprised what you can carry.
Engineering
My craft: apps people trust with their money and their health
Ten years in, Android is home — Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, clean architecture. I learned it on products where a crash isn't an inconvenience, it's someone locked out of their bank account. That standard stays with me everywhere.
Senior Android Engineer
Consulting · Fortune-500 consumer brand · 2024–present
- Fan-facing features in 100% Kotlin, Coroutines & Flows, CLEAN architecture
- Legacy XML → Jetpack Compose migration, ~30% faster UI builds
- Live & VOD streaming integration with real-time playback analytics
- <2% escaped defects across bi-weekly releases; CI quality gates
Citi — flagship banking app
via Photon Infotech · 2021–2023
- Money-movement & card-management features, end-to-end Kotlin/Java
- Led MVP→MVVM/MVI and RxJava→Coroutines refactors
- Crash-free sessions 97% → 99.4%; 200+ test suite
- Mentored three junior developers
Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield
Android Developer · 2018–2021
- Member-facing health-insurance app, multi-module MVVM
- REST + GraphQL integrations, secure local storage
- 99%+ crash-free, ~20% faster cold start
Frontier-model evaluation
Freelance · 2021–present
- Multi-turn prompt design for reasoning & code-generation tasks
- Benchmarking frontier LLMs for accuracy, stability, compliance
- Adversarial examples and edge-case training data
Toolbox: Kotlin · Java · Jetpack Compose · Coroutines/Flows · MVVM/MVI · ExoPlayer · Retrofit/GraphQL · JUnit 5 · MockK · Espresso · GitHub Actions CI/CD · Gradle KTS · Firebase — plus pre-sales engineering: RFP analysis, BOQ modeling, ROI storytelling.
Real Estate
I don't just sell houses. I buy them.
When I hand a client an analysis, it's the same math I run before wiring my own money. My husband and I own two rentals and are mid-renovation on our third project — I passed the licensing exam in 2024, pregnant with our second son, because I wanted the profession, not just the paperwork.
Haltom City, TX
Single-family · long-term rental, converted & managed by us
Newark, TX
Single-family · long-term rental, converted & managed by us
Euless, TX — value-add
Full case study below · rehab in progress, summer 2026
Keller-Area Buyer Briefing
What $650k buys in a new or like-new 2-story near Keller — verified listings, builder communities, and a property-tax comparison · Aug 2026
Case study: the Euless project
A 1966 3-bed/2-bath single-family home acquired off-market in May 2026 through our investment company. We underwrote every number ourselves — acquisition, hard-money structure, rehab draws, refinance model, and three exit strategies.
| Exit strategy | Model | Projected outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Short-term rental (primary) | DSCR refinance, then Airbnb at a conservative blended $175/night, 57% occupancy | positive cash flow; $877–1,077/mo at 65% occupancy |
| Long-term rental | Market rent ≈ $2,400/mo against 30-yr DSCR loan | stable, hands-off cash flow |
| Sell on completion | List at appraised value after rehab | ≈ $19K–29K net at $325–335K |
Figures are our own underwriting, summarized from the live deal file; conservative assumptions used throughout. Detailed pro-forma available on request.
Creator
The unfiltered version lives on Instagram
775 posts of my real life — dance (my first love), travel from Kathmandu to Dubai, food I refuse to apologize for, my boys, and now the dust and receipts of our renovation. No agency runs this. That's why people trust it — and why it converts.
What I'm Building Toward
I got tired of saying the idea out loud. So I built it.
Here's what I keep seeing from both of my worlds: people wire their life savings for an apartment that won't exist for two years, and then… silence. As an engineer that offends me, and as an investor I've felt it. What buyers are really paying for is certainty — and certainty is a software problem. So instead of describing my idea, I coded a small working piece of it into this page. Go ahead, move the sliders.
The full version, the way I'd ship it for a real developer:
- Watch your home rise — weekly photo and video updates from the site, tied to your floor. The update you'd want if it were your money. It was mine once; I know.
- Every dirham accounted for — milestone payments, receipts, escrow letters, title documents, all in one vault instead of a dozen emails.
- An AI concierge that doesn't make things up — I test frontier AI models for a living, so I know exactly how far to trust them and where to put the guardrails.
- And buyers, not just software — I'm a licensed Texas agent living in one of America's wealthiest South Asian communities. I can build the app and fill the webinar.
I'm looking for a visionary team to build this with. If that's you, scroll down.
Contact
Let's talk — I answer my own email.
Software, AI, real estate, or all three at once — if you're building something ambitious, I want to hear about it.