Product lead · Designer · Builder

Susan Acharya

I make products
people actually use.

I design the thing, I can build it, I can sell the story, and I can run the messy people-and-priorities part too. Campaigns, games, apps. If it needs to go live, I stay until it does.

  • 15+ products shipped
  • 250K+ users onboarded
  • Build first, iterate later.
Portrait of Susan Acharya, product lead and designer in Kathmandu, Nepal

02 Nights and weekends

Side quests

Tools I built because I was annoyed, curious, or both. Four up top. The rest if you are nosy.

All Things PDF

Browser PDF tools. Merge, split, compress. No upload to some random server.

Open

Arcade

Mini-games with real backend logic and a leaderboard that gets spicy.

Open Code

Instant CV

CV and cover letter when you need them yesterday.

Open

Bluffers

On-chain bluffing game. Poker face optional. Sui required.

Open

03 How I got here

The Journey So Far

Started in pixels. Learned to ship the code. Then took the business and the people problems too.

I am Susan Acharya, a product lead in Kathmandu, Nepal. I can design it, I can build it, and I can run the unglamorous stuff: roadmaps, stakeholders, timelines that slip, two teams pulling in different directions. Product, for me, is not a ticket factory. It is filling the gaps so the work actually lands.

  1. May 2024 to May 2026

    Product Lead at Venture23

    Ran AI and blockchain products from idea to live. Design, engineering, GTM, and the day-to-day management when things got messy. Put agents into our workflows so teams stopped waiting on each other. Shipped five-plus games and digital things.

  2. Feb 2024 to May 2024

    Jr Software Engineer at Core Software

    MERN work, APIs, and making pages feel less sluggish. We cut response time by about 40%. Short stint. Lots of shipping.

  3. Jun 2022 to Nov 2022

    UI Developer at Kelvious

    Figma components, then the real website. I was the person in the middle saying “this looks great, now make it work on a phone.”

  4. Oct 2019 to Aug 2024

    B.S. Computer Science at Kathford International College

    Computer Science and Information Technology in Kathmandu. The degree that started the pixels-to-products plot.

04 What I am good at

The Skillset

Not a badge wall. Just the stuff I actually reach for.

AI, daily

Agents, LLMs, messy prompts that somehow work. I use them to move faster, not to skip thinking.

Product

Roadmaps, GTM, stakeholders, and the “what do we cut?” calls. Also the people part when plans fall apart.

Build

MERN, Flutter, APIs, a bit of chain. Enough to ship, enough to not get snowed by engineering.

Design

Figma, research chats, prototypes. I care if it feels obvious on a small screen.

Tools I use

  • ChatGPT
  • Cursor
  • Claude
  • Midjourney
  • Canva
  • Figma
  • Visual Studio
  • Zapier
  • HubSpot
  • Google Analytics
  • Salesforce

06 Door is open

If you have a weird product problem, I probably want to hear it.

Collabs, freelance, or just a ramble about anything tech, games or AI. Email is fine.

Write to Me

[email protected]