Abhishek Upperwal
CEO Founder at Soket AI Labs
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAbhishek Upperwal is a data scientist and founder with 11 years of engineering and entrepreneurial experience, currently leading Soket AI Labs from Bengaluru to build AI-driven solutions for social impact. Trained at IISc Bangalore in Computational and Data Sciences with a focus on HPC and distributed systems, he blends deep technical chops in big data (Hadoop, Spark, Giraph) and distributed protocols (Ethereum, libp2p) with product and policy work for India’s smart cities and public health programs. He co-led the Wastewater Intelligence Network to operationalize wastewater-based epidemiology for pandemic surveillance and has supported data initiatives at the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. A hands-on engineer at heart, he contributes to notable open-source projects such as the Go implementation of libp2p, improving examples, IPv6 support, and test coverage—demonstrating a habit of shipping pragmatic infrastructure improvements.
12 years of coding experience
Matriculation, Matriculation at Blue Bells Model SchoolMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Indian Institute of ScienceUnder Graduate, Under Graduate at The NorthCap University
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Github Skills (14)
sockaddr10
go10
dladdr10
networking10
libp2p10
testing9
ipv69
file-transfer6
mpi6
parallel-processing6
opencv6
camera-calibration6
nat6
p2p6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
libp2p/go-libp2p
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
libp2p implementation in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 85 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek primarily focused on implementing example functionality and improving the libp2p implementation in Go. Their contributions included adding a chat application example, enhancing default configurations, and refactoring the code. They also addressed IPv6 compatibility and improved test coverage by adding a test for default listen addresses.
golibp2pnetworking-stackp2p
DataSpace-Mobility/data-standard-registry-doc
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 66 pushes in 8 months
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