Sahil
Uddin

Tech, policy, and financial markets

London, UK

Download CV ↓Selected writing →

Now

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

Experience

2014–17
BA Politics & International Relations
Birkbeck College, University of London
2017
Sky News
Broadcast journalism
2017–18
MSc International Political Economy
London School of Economics (LSE)
2017–19
Linear Investments
Risk & Compliance — prime brokerage
2019–20
United Nations ESCAP
Economist — Bangkok
2020–21
Harvard Business School — HBX CORe
Business fundamentals — pre-MBA
2021–24
ukiyo Labs
Founder & CEO
2023–25
Story Protocol
Built IPSwap on the Story blockchain
2024–
AI · Software Engineering
Deep learning & AI — DeepLearning.AI coursework · full-stack builds
2026–
Glide
Co-founder · Launching on the App Store

Selected work

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 ↗

2026 · Co-founder

Apple App StoreGoogle Play Store

Glide

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

Case study →theglideapp.com

2023–2025 · Protocol Contributor

BlockchainIPMarketplace

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 →

Writing & research

Economics, capital markets, and ESGs

Research spanning economics, financial markets, sustainability & ESGs, digital assets, and public policy.

Blog →UN publications →

Financial services · 2017–2019

Linear Investments

Institutional experience 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.

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

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. Technical with an ability to close deals.

Timeline

2014–17
BA Politics & International Relations
Birkbeck College, University of London
2017
Sky News
Broadcast journalism
2017–18
MSc International Political Economy
London School of Economics (LSE)
2017–19
Linear Investments
Risk & Compliance — prime brokerage
2019–20
United Nations ESCAP
Economist — Bangkok
2020–21
Harvard Business School — HBX CORe
Business fundamentals — pre-MBA
2021–24
ukiyo Labs
Founder & CEO
2023–25
Story Protocol
Built IPSwap on the Story blockchain
2024–
AI · Software Engineering
Deep learning & AI — DeepLearning.AI coursework · full-stack builds
2026–
Glide
Co-founder · Launching on the App Store