about

i'm Uday. i build software systems where infrastructure, data and product meet. in practice that means i'm usually somewhere between a backend service, a Linux box and a device on a cellular network.

right now that's Stratalis Tech, a company i co-founded to build software for utility companies. our product, Discom360, brings meter data, billing, field operations and consumer services onto one platform. i took it from first design to production, i was the architect for the backend, our microservice stack and logging tooling, i oversaw the development of two mobile apps now live on both app stores.

before that i co-founded RetailQ and spent three and a half years as its CTO, building point-of-sale software for small retailers and restaurants. at its peak more than 190 franchises across Punjab ran on it. the product lives on as FloPOS, now run as a separate product by my then co-founder. small shops, real money and no room to be clever for its own sake. it taught me more about software than any course did.

on the research side i co-authored BEACON, a multimodal behavioural biometrics dataset for continuous authentication. i built its data pipeline and upload server, ran the GPUs it was collected on, and cleaned and released the dataset. i was also a grand finalist at ISRO's Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon 2025, working on solar wind data from Aditya-L1.

the things that genuinely interest me are scale, reliability, interoperability, and systems that have to survive contact with the real world. i like problems where the answer isn't in a library, and i like making a model run faster on hardware it shouldn't run on at all.

i've been breaking computers since c. 2004, and i haven't stopped.

elsewhere

say hello

[email protected]. genuinely, do write. if you have a hard computing problem, i'd like to hear about it.