About

From bank counters to brand stories

I started in banking, learned to test software at BNY Mellon and Ameriprise, and now run my own marketing agency. Every step taught me to listen, test and tell the story clearly. On my resume and LinkedIn you'll find me as Alina Rajbanshi.

Experience

The path so far

Resume (PDF) ↗
2025 – now

Founder and digital marketing manager

Digital Growth Engine · Schaumburg, IL

Strategy, content, ads, email, blogs, Google profiles and reporting for local businesses. Built a Claude AI agent and n8n automations.

2025 – now

Licensed real estate agent

Keller Williams · previously Compass

Started as a transaction coordinator at Compass in November 2025, got my license in April 2026, then moved it to Keller Williams.

2024 – 2025

Founder

Everest Artisan · Chicago, IL

A Shopify and Etsy brand for 31 vintage Nepalese pieces.

2024

Quality assurance engineer

BNY Mellon · contract

Manual and Selenium testing on web and mobile banking platforms, with SQL, Jira and Tableau.

2023

Digital QA analyst, UX and customer journey

Ameriprise Financial · contract

100+ test cases across iOS, Android and web customer journeys.

2019 – 2022

Senior relationship banker

Bank of America · Sacramento, CA

Promoted from teller in six months. Top Performer 2020 for client satisfaction.

2022 · 2020

B.S. Information and Decision Sciences, Honors

University of Illinois Chicago · GPA 3.7

Also an A.A. in Applied Business from American River College (GPA 3.8).

Community

The stories I'm proudest of raised money for people who needed it.
Alina Roy smiling
Alina Roy in a tweed suit
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Laligurans women's club

Member and speaker. My speech and blog posts helped raise more than $10,000 in one day for Nepal flood relief.

Read my Teej blog, “The Year We Didn’t Dance” ↗

In the news: eNepalese, Aug 2026 ↗ · eNepalese, Sep 2026 ↗ · Inner Circle Nepal reel ↗

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Nepali street festival

Ran a handicraft booth and a live charity auction that raised $5,000.

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“Good Touch, Bad Touch”

Led a child body-safety awareness campaign at a local school in Nepal.

Watch the video ↗

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American Marketing Association

Member.

Laligurans, Teej 2026. The night we raised $10K+ for Nepal.
“Good Touch, Bad Touch.” Books on body safety and consent for the school.

Skills and tools

What I work with

Social and content

InstagramTikTokFacebookReelsCopywritingBloggingMetricool

Email and paid

Toast MarketingKlaviyoHubSpotAutomated flowsMeta Ads

Local and web

Google Business ProfileLocal SEOShopifyEtsyEventbrite

AI and design

Claude AI agentsn8nAdobe Creative CloudCanva

Data and testing

SQLTableauGA4SeleniumJiraSalesforce

Credentials

Digital Marketing & E-Commerce CertificateGA4 (in progress)Illinois Real Estate License