In 2008 my wife and I came to Nepal for a 2 week vacation that we extended to 4 weeks, then 3 months and now over 3 years later we are still here and loving every minute of it. A few weeks after arriving I began training 3 young software developers in Ruby on Rails around a small kitchen table. Since then we have trained up over 30 software developers that are now responsible for building and architecting CloudFactory(along with other web apps for clients around the world).

It is amazing what happens when you give someone in the developing world some training and an opportunity.

Over the last 3 years I have witnessed the incredible talent, motivation and potential of people in Nepal and other developing nations and yet they are completely cut off from the global economy. Many were brought up in English schools, earned a college degree, use Facebook and yet there is little to no opportunity for rewarding employment.

Unlocking this human potential is the driving force behind CloudFactory where we aim to engage 1 million people with basic computer work over the next 5 years.

We have 40 people that come to work every day believing they can change the world. All that we have learned the last few years by training people up, giving them an opportunity, loving them and equipping them to contribute their talent to the world is the same DNA we are passing on to the groups of cloud workers we are raising up. We eat lunch together everyday, give 10% of gross income to charities making a difference in our community, get our hands dirty cleaning our neighborhood up and in general we are trying to build a company that transform us, our community, the country and potentially the world.

Come visit us. Join us for a nice "daal bhat" lunch and see how we are changing the way the world works(in more than 1 way!).