Ram Krishna Singh - Software Engineer
Ram has been a software engineer for five years. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bapuji Institute of Engineering in India.
For the last several years, he has been the acting chairman of the Shree Shanti Vidyashram school management committee, located in Patan Dhoka. Recently, he managed the renovation and reconstruction of the school. He is also an active member of the local group "Maitri Parivar," whose sole aim is to provide much-needed financial support to educate the poor and destitute in remote villages.
His principal hobby is pulling a large wooden deity through the streets of Kathmandu. He also likes to work on micro-hydroelectric projects for rural Nepal.
Surendra Sedhai - Software Engineer
Surendra earned his degree in Electronics Engineering from the Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus in Lalitpur, Nepal.
Om Yadav - Graphic Designer
Om coordinates the content development team. He has many years of experience in graphic design.
Punyashil Gautam - Curriculum Expert
Punyashil is a distinguished artist, art educator, and teacher trainer. He will use his experience to help the development team create learning activities that meet the needs of teachers, Nepali students, and are visually engaging.
Punyashil helped found the prestigious Rato Bangala School in Kathmandu.
Christine Stone - Curriculum Expert
Christine has over 25 years of experience working in Nepal. She has been involved in all aspects of education, from teaching English and math in Gorkha and Namjung to writing textbooks with the Secondary Education Project in Sano Thimi.
She also works with the Kathmandu International Study Center (KISC) and Room to Read.
Most recently, she wrote math textbooks for Grades 5 and 6. She is a native of the U.K. Read more about her in a great article from the Nepali Times.
Luke Gorrie - Software Engineer
Luke Gorrie has been programming since he learned to read and has spent the first part of the 21st century deeply involved in the Erlang and Common Lisp programming communities. He was a core developer in the two most successful Erlang startup companies (Bluetail and Synapse) and was a founding developer of the popular Lisp development environment SLIME. His other software is available on his website.
Luke grew up in Australia, spent a long time living in Sweden, and is now in Kathmandu with the goal of pushing One Laptop Per Child forward. He has volunteered to spend one year helping to kickstart OLE Nepal in Kathmandu.
Luke arrived in Kathmandu in early September 2007 and already loves dal bhaat, traffic bandhs, and Nepali pop music.