Sahil Uddin

Sahil
Uddin

Economics, software engineering, finance & entrepreneurship.

Working across policy, capital markets and code — building ventures that bring the three together.

London, UK

Download CV ↓Selected writing →

Now

  • Jul 2026Building Glide toward its App Store launch, with day-to-day running handed to my co-founder.
  • 2025–26Deep in AI engineering: agentic workflows, RAG, and full-stack builds across frontend, backend, and Python.

Selected work

ukiyo Labs platform site● ukiyo labs

2021–2024 | Founder & CEO

ukiyo Labs

Crypto-native venture platform. Built, angel-funded ($100K pre-seed), exited. First on-chain VC structure using a Cayman Islands Segregated Portfolio Company.

EthereumSmart contractsDeFiTokenomicsCayman SPC
Read the case study →Flagship ↗
GlideUK ride-hailing

2026 · Co-founder

App Store soon

Glide

Bid-based ride-hailing for the UK. Built end to end, now run by my co-founder.

Case study →theglideapp.com
IPSwap — An IP Marketplace

2023–2025 · Story Protocol

Fed ip.world

IPSwap

A decentralized marketplace for intellectual property, built on the Story blockchain — alongside the first protocol Frame on Farcaster. Concepts fed ip.world, now a core Story-ecosystem product.

Case study →
United Nations, Geneva

Writing & research

Economics, capital markets & crypto

Policy research at the UN and LSE, applied to questions of capital formation, emerging markets, and on-chain finance.

Blog →UN publications →
Financial district towers

Financial services · 2017–2019

Linear Investments

Two years inside an FCA-regulated prime brokerage serving hedge funds and family offices — the sell-side engine room. Owned risk and compliance across onboarding, trade surveillance, and regulatory remediation; the institutional grounding behind ukiyo’s first-of-its-kind fund structuring.

Prime brokerage · Hedge funds · Family offices · FCA

  • 4wk → 1–2wkInstitutional client onboarding, through a front-to-back KYC process redesign
  • −70%Trade-surveillance alerts, via system calibration and trade-level analysis across desks
  • FCA clearedIndependent risk reviews across governance, financial crime, outsourcing and record-keeping — remediation secured FCA clearance post-fine

Open source & projects

GitHub ↗
ukiyo-labs/sakura↗

Ethereum smart-contract code for ukiyo's venture-capital component

F#

ukiyo-labs/kxo-token↗

$KXO token smart contracts — fixed 521M supply, vesting, treasury

Solidity

ukiyo-labs/ipswap↗

IPSwap — decentralized IP marketplace

JavaScript

story_hackathon↗

Story hackathon build — on-chain IP experiments on the Story blockchain

JavaScript

About

Eight years across policy, finance, and technology — from the UN in Bangkok to building on-chain investment infrastructure in London. I write code and close deals. I think clearly under ambiguity and build things that didn’t exist before.

Timeline

  1. 2014–17

    BA Politics & International Relations

    Birkbeck College, University of London

  2. 2017

    Sky News

    Broadcast journalism

  3. 2017–18

    MSc International Political Economy

    London School of Economics (LSE)

  4. 2017–19

    Linear Investments

    Risk & Compliance — prime brokerage

  5. 2019–20

    United Nations ESCAP

    Economist — Bangkok

  6. 2020–21

    Harvard Business School — HBX CORe

    Business fundamentals — pre-MBA

  7. 2021–24

    ukiyo Labs

    Founder & CEO

  8. 2023–25

    Story Protocol

    Built IPSwap on the Story blockchain

  9. 2024–

    AI · Software Engineering

    Deep learning & AI — DeepLearning.AI coursework · full-stack builds

  10. 2026–

    Glide

    Co-founder · Launching on the App Store