Heriz Bista

👋 About me
Agile-trained product and project professional with a BSc in Computer Science (Kathmandu University, GPA 3.6/4.0). I’m currently studying for an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s in Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance as a scholarship holder, across KU Leuven (Belgium), the University of Münster (Germany), and TalTech (Estonia). 🌍

💼 Experience highlights

• 🚀 Product Manager, NishwetBox: prioritized the backlog with engineering and led user acceptance testing for a food delivery platform, catching critical UI/UX and payment gateway issues before launch [add scale: team size, users, releases]

• ✅ Associate QA Engineer, Cedar Gate Technologies: translated requirements into 1000+ test cases for healthcare software, reached 100% requirement coverage and cut manual review lead time by 30%

• 🏆 Campus Director, Hult Prize: led a team of 30 to deliver Nepal’s largest student-led entrepreneurship program

• 🤝 International Service Director, Rotaract: managed communication with international partner clubs and coordinated joint service projects

🎓 Credentials

• 📜 Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate

• 📚 Published paper with Springer Nature on deep learning for natural disaster detection

🛠️ Skills
Agile and Scrum · Backlog prioritization · Requirements analysis · User acceptance testing · Stakeholder management · Cross-functional collaboration · Jira · SQL · Python · Excel · Postman

💡 Interests
Project and product management, digital products, digital government and public-sector innovation, where technology meets real user needs.

🎯 What I’m looking for

• 🏡 Remote positions only for now

• 🧭 Roles: [project coordinator / junior product manager/product owner]

• 🕒 Based in Belgium (CET time zone), comfortable working with international and distributed teams

• 📅 Availability: [ part-time or working student alongside my studies / full-time from 2028]