COO · Fintech & Payments

Sumit
Bhandari

Chief Operating Officer at eSewa Remit — driving product operations, payment infrastructure, and cross-border remittance growth across global corridors from Kathmandu.

📍 Kathmandu, Nepal 🏦 10+ Yrs Banking & Fintech 🌐 Remittance & Payments

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Areas of Expertise

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Product Operations

End-to-end ownership of product workflows — from vendor onboarding to delivery pipelines. Translating business requirements into operational execution.

Process Design Vendor Mgmt KPI Ownership

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Remittance & Payments

Deep expertise in cross-border money movement, payment integrations, API-driven transaction flows, and regulatory compliance for remittance corridors.

API Integrations FX Rates Compliance

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Automation & Tech

Hands-on with Python scripting, GitHub Actions, Telegram alerting systems, and data pipeline automation — bridging business logic with technical execution.

Python GitHub Actions SQL

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Leadership & Hiring

Building and managing lean product teams, driving hiring justifications, managing knowledge transfer, and eliminating single-point-of-failure dependencies.

Team Building Hiring KT Planning

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Data & Reporting

SQL-driven analytics, structured data pipelines, file format conversions, and operational reporting tailored to fintech and remittance business needs.

SQL Data Pipelines CSV/TXT

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Stakeholder Management

Communicating across executive, technical, and external partner layers — crafting proposals, approval notes, and strategic narratives that move decisions forward.

Executive Comms Negotiations Proposals

Professional Profile

With over a decade embedded in Nepal's banking and fintech ecosystem, Sumit Bhandari brings a rare combination of strategic leadership and technical depth to the COO role at eSewa Remit.

His career has spanned the full arc of fintech operations — from payment integrations and API-driven transaction