Developer of the first computer system in Nepal, Sakya is a Nepalese computer programmer credited with helping to usher in Information Technology (IT) in Nepal, also known for designing computer systems that could be operated in the Nepali language.
Among his boyhood achievements was a radio receiver set that he designed and fabricated to listen to Radio Nepal. Later he made microprocessor-based controllers and video cards, as well as the first microcomputer in Nepal, making the power supply unit and video card himself. He bought a keyboard from the USA, made the monitor from a Russian television, and demonstrated his microcomputer at the South Asian Regional Conference on computers in Kathmandu.
In 1981 Sakya worked on developing floppy disk controllers with 900Kb storage space. He opened the first company in his country for manufacturing computer cards, Sun Moon Computer Industry, in 1995, and established Hi-Tech Pioneer Ltd, an Internet Service Provider. His primary interest has been in designing systems that could be operated in the Nepali language, and he received the Science Award in December 1983 for this work.
Programs Sakya developed included, but were not limited to: Voice Recognition System, Voice Dictionary, Radiation Monitor, Nepalese Subtitle Display, and Nepali Multimedia.
