Shashikant Shah: Press Kit
For journalists, editors, event organisers and podcast hosts. The bios, the photo and the facts below are checked and ready to copy. You don't need to ask before using them; a credit and a link are all I ask.
Quick answer
Shashikant Shah is a software engineer and digital marketing expert in Kathmandu, Nepal, and an AI specialist who builds data driven growth systems with cutting edge technology for businesses in Nepal and abroad. For a quote, a talk or an interview, email shashikantshah.tech@gmail.com with "Press" in the subject.
Bios, ready to copy
One line
Shashikant Shah is a software engineer, AI specialist and digital marketing expert in Kathmandu: SEO, AEO, GEO, SXO, programmatic and e-commerce SEO, Google and Meta Ads.
Standard (the wording used everywhere)
Shashikant Shah is a software engineer and digital marketing expert in Kathmandu, Nepal, and an AI specialist who builds data driven growth systems with cutting edge technology for businesses in Nepal and abroad. He works as an SEO orchestrator: SEO, AEO, GEO, SXO, AI SEO and AI search optimization, programmatic SEO, e-commerce SEO backed by page evidence and marketplace research, international SEO with hreflang audits, local SEO and Google Maps, Google Ads and Meta Ads. He plans the strategy, writes the code and measures the result himself, so nothing is lost between marketing and engineering.
Long
Shashikant Shah is a software engineer and digital marketing expert in Kathmandu, Nepal, and an AI specialist who builds data driven growth systems with cutting edge technology for businesses in Nepal and abroad. He works as an SEO orchestrator: SEO, AEO, GEO, SXO, AI SEO and AI search optimization, programmatic SEO, e-commerce SEO backed by page evidence and marketplace research, international SEO with hreflang audits, local SEO and Google Maps, Google Ads and Meta Ads. He plans the strategy, writes the code and measures the result himself, so nothing is lost between marketing and engineering. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from KIIT University. Over more than five years he has worked on over sixty projects for clients in eight countries, with organisations including Nepal Airlines Corporation, Build Change, THT Digital and Treebones Resort. He publishes his prices and his results, with their baselines, at shashikantshah.com.np.
Photo
Download the portrait (JPEG, 897 × 1000 pixels). Use it with any article, event page or episode about Shashikant Shah. Credit: Photo: Shashikant Shah. Please don't crop it into a different person's layout or edit the face; a square crop is fine.
Facts, checked
Every line here is also on the rest of this site. If a fact changes, it changes here first.
| Name | Shashikant Shah (also written Shashi Kant Shah) |
|---|---|
| Based in | Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal |
| Role | Independent digital marketing expert and SEO consultant; software engineer |
| Work | SEO, GEO and AEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads, analytics, AI automation (n8n, OpenAI, Claude), web development |
| Experience | 5+ years, 60+ projects, clients in eight countries |
| Organisations worked with | Nepal Airlines Corporation, Build Change, THT Digital, Treebones Resort, Cosmos College of Management and Technology, Bloom Ivy and others, listed on the case studies page |
| Education | B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar |
| Languages | English, Nepali, Hindi |
| Website | shashikantshah.com.np |
| linkedin.com/in/shashikant-shah |
Topics he can comment on
Each topic links to something he has already written, so you can check the angle before you get in touch.
- Why Nepali businesses don't show up in ChatGPT and Google's AI answers, and what changes that: GEO vs SEO, GEO in Nepal.
- Nepal's internet and social media numbers for 2026, and which ones to plan around: Nepal digital marketing statistics 2026.
- What digital marketing, SEO and Google Ads actually cost in Nepal: digital marketing cost, SEO cost, Google Ads cost.
- Agency or consultant, and how a business should choose: agency vs consultant.
- AI automation for small businesses, and which jobs are worth automating first: what to automate first.
- Fake pages and impersonation of Nepali brands on social media, from the Nepal Airlines Corporation work: aviation.
For event organisers and podcast hosts
Talks run 30 to 45 minutes with questions, in English, Nepali or Hindi, in person in the Kathmandu valley or online anywhere. Three that work well:
- Is your business invisible to ChatGPT? How AI answer engines choose which businesses to name, with live checks of local websites using the free AI search checker.
- Nepal's digital numbers for 2026, without the hype. What the NTA, DataReportal and StatCounter figures mean for where Nepali buyers actually are.
- Automating lead follow-up, live. Building a working n8n workflow on stage, from a form submission to a reply in under a minute.
Data you can use
- Nepal digital marketing statistics 2026: sourced figures, free to cite with a link.
- Nepal digital marketing pricing 2026 (JSON): the price ranges behind the cost guide, reusable under CC BY 4.0.
- AI search checker: a free tool that shows whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI can read a website. Fine to use in an article or a talk.
How to credit him
In print: Shashikant Shah, digital marketing and SEO consultant, Kathmandu. Online, the same line with a link to shashikantshah.com.np, or to the article you're quoting. If you quote a number from one of his articles, please link that article so readers can check the source.
Contact
Email shashikantshah.tech@gmail.com with "Press" in the subject, or call or WhatsApp +977 9845451010. He replies within one working day; put your deadline in the first message. For the longer story in the third person, see who is Shashikant Shah; for his own words, see about.
Working on a story or an event?
Send the deadline and the question. You'll get a straight answer, or a name of someone better placed to give one.