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About

Hi, I’m Sumit.

Software engineer by day, trekker whenever the calendar allows. This site is where the two meet: a hand-built map of the places I’ve walked, starting from home in Nepal and working outward.

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Places on the map
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Countries
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Of them in Nepal

The day job

I’m a Software Engineer at ServiceNow in Santa Clara, California, building playbooks and AI agents for government services: licensing and permits, social benefits, grants and investigations. Before that I spent four years in Kathmandu as a frontend developer and UI/UX lead, shipping healthcare products, and then moved to Lubbock for a master’s in Computer Science at Texas Tech.

The full résumé is on the portfolio page.

Why this blog

Most of the trips here are treks in Nepal: long bus rides west, jeep transfers that break down, and days of walking to lakes and base camps that most people only see in photos. I write them up so I remember the details, and so the next person planning the same route knows what it really takes, including the budget, the difficulty and the day-by-day route.

Every story is pinned on the map on the home page. Click a country to zoom in and browse the trips there.

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