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Somu Prajapati

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Polymath by function. Engineer by obsession. Builder of systems that think, trade, and scale. Raised on Kendrick bars and Seedhe Maut flows — I write code the way hip-hop writes verses: tight, layered, and hitting different every time.

Somu Prajapati

# about

Technical founder and systems builder. I studied Computer Science + Industrial Engineering at IIT Kanpur.

I've built trading systems as a quant trader at Alphagrep Securities, low-latency infrastructure at Graviton Research Capital and Quantbox Research, and served as CTO of Vyomchara, an AI-powered mining startup with Government of India pilots.

Now I'm building Strata.OS — the AI operating system for businesses.

education
IIT Kanpur
CS + Industrial Engg.
domain
Systems & AI
Quant, HFT, Infra
current
Strata.OS
Founder & Builder

# strata.os

YC S26 Applicant

AI-powered unified OS for businesses

Kernel-level observability meets AI reasoning. Strata.OS uses eBPF tracing and Firecracker microVMs with intelligent agents that don't just monitor — they understand, reason, and act.

>_ Strata.OS Tech

Deep kernel-level tracing with eBPF. AI agents that perform root cause analysis and incident reasoning in real-time.

>_ Strata.OS Prod

Production-grade AI orchestration with Firecracker microVMs. Secure, isolated, and blazing fast workload management.

tech stack

Rust C++ Go eBPF Firecracker LLMs Kubernetes Linux Kernel

Co-founder: Sahil Dhull — IIT Kanpur CS, ex-Cohesity, ex-Sonatic (a16z backed)

# experience

2025 – present

Strata.OS

Founder & Builder

Building the AI operating system for businesses. Kernel-level tracing meets AI reasoning — one shared brain across engineering, product, and leadership. YC S26 applicant. The whole damn vision.

Jan 2025 – Sep 2025

Alphagrep Securities

Associate Quant Trader

HF alpha research and modelling. Low-latency execution. Market-maker strategy on Binance. Hacked my way from infra into trading within 3 months — built microstructure dashboards the traders couldn't ignore, shipped fill-quality improvements to prod, and the org chart rerouted itself around me.

Jan 2024 – Oct 2024

Graviton Research Capital

Software Engineer

Built and optimized market data systems for 5+ major crypto exchanges. TBs of data. 5M+ trades a day. Single-handedly managed HF infra with a billion dollars in flow. The kind of pressure that either breaks you or makes you dangerously calm.

Jul 2022 – Jan 2024

Quantbox Research

Engineering Analyst

End-to-end market data stack for Binance, OKX, Bybit — from scratch. Built the whole pipeline. Quant research meets raw engineering, no hand-holding.

2021 – 2022

Vyomchara

CTO

AI-powered mining solutions using drones and hyperspectral sensors. Government of India pilots worth INR 65 cr+ in pipeline. IoT simulations, deep tech, and bureaucracy — shipped through all of it.

2021 – 2022

Touch

AI Lead → Advisor

Built the core AI platform — SOTA NLP, collaborative-filtering RL, recommendation engines for financial literacy. Went from lead engineer to advisor because they needed the architecture more than the title.

2021

Mobileum

ML Engineer

Built a scalable, fault-tolerant, library-agnostic inference server that could serve any ML pipeline with zero extra code overhead. Telecom-scale, production-grade.

2018 – 2022

IIT Kanpur

CS + Industrial Engineering

Highest placement offer across India. 1st runner up InterIIT Tech Meet. Published at CoDS-COMAD and ACM. Led one of 15 teams selected from India for the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 CT Challenge. Secretary of Programming Club. Built a C compiler in Python because why not. The kind of undergrad that treats every semester like a speedrun.

# projects & publications

publication

SwaGrader

Automated grading system. Published at CoDS-COMAD 2020.

project

C Compiler in Python

Built a working C compiler from scratch using Python. Lexer, parser, codegen — the whole pipeline.

research

COVID-19 CT Challenge

Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 CT image analysis challenge.

publication

Game Theory & Systems

Research paper published at ACM on game-theoretic approaches to systems problems.

project

IoT Mining Simulations

IoT-based simulation systems for mining operations. Built during Vyomchara tenure.