17 Years | Biratnagar, Koshi Province
STEM & Tech Innovation

The hacker who turned a Facebook post into a career.

At 13, Aarjan saw a bug bounty post on Facebook and thought, wait, I can do this. Two years later, he holds one of the youngest CVE credits ever assigned to a security researcher, works as a security engineer for a Y Combinator-backed startup, and is building his own company from his bedroom in Biratnagar — a city that, until recently, had no tech scene at all. So he built one. Arniko Hack Club, which he founded, is now Nepal’s largest teen tech community, with 400+ members who might otherwise have had nowhere to point their talent.

400+ Hack Club members · 250+ participants at Daydream, Nepal’s largest teen hackathon · $20,000+ in early business commitments for his security startup, kroda.ai