Sonika Manandhar is a Nepalese computer engineer and co-founder of Aeloi Technologies, a fintech platform that mobilizes the grassroots economy to reduce climate change by bridging the last-mile impact financing gap for green microentrepreneurs with digital tokens. She has spent nearly a decade as a software programmer and today uses her technical expertise as a tool to communicate with the grassroots microentrepreneurs and translate that knowledge in building a fintech solution that matches the grassroots user's needs.