Summary
Uday Jhunjhunwala is an AI-focused engineering leader with 10 years of experience building production-grade software and blockchain systems from India. He runs Avant Garde Labs, shipping practical AI workflows and sophisticated agentic systems implemented in Rust. Previously he designed and tuned Cairo smart contracts for Starknet, Solidity contracts for Ethereum, and runtime Rust for a substrate-based Layer 3, with multiple mainnet deployments. His background spans startups and large tech (Microsoft, Amazon), blending product-facing engineering, cryptography-aware smart contract development, and marketing/technology management. Comfortable across low-level systems and higher-level ML/agent design, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and deployability. An entrepreneur at heart, he pairs hands-on coding with a track record of turning experimental tech into shipped products.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology