Every program I've ever written started with two words, so it felt right to start here the same way.
I'm Yugantar. I build software for a living and, more often than not, the companies around it too. Right now I lead engineering at Zuddl, where we build real-time systems for live events — the kind of thing that has to work flawlessly while thousands of people are watching. Before that I spent my early career founding and co-founding startups: a rental marketplace, a real-time gaming product, and a crypto exchange. Some worked, some didn't. All of them taught me more than any job description could.
Why a personal site, in 2026?
Most of my work lives behind logins, in private repos, or in products with someone else's name on the door. That's fine — it's the nature of building things for companies. But none of it is mine in a way I can point to. This site is the small correction to that: a place that isn't a profile on someone else's platform, where I decide what goes up and how it looks.
I also just missed building for the open web. No framework, no build pipeline worth the name — this is static HTML, a stylesheet, and a few lines of JavaScript, served from S3. Writing it felt like coming home.
What I'm building lately
Outside of Zuddl, I'm building ScoreThis — an app for running padel and pickleball tournaments from your phone. It started for the most honest reason a side project can: I play padel constantly, and I was tired of watching good sessions get bogged down in paper brackets and spreadsheets. So I built the thing I wanted to use. The hobby and the product feed each other now — every game is research.
What you'll find here
I'm not promising a posting schedule. But when I have something worth writing down, it'll land here — probably some mix of:
- Engineering — real-time systems, the unglamorous parts of building products, lessons from shipping.
- Building — what founding companies actually felt like, the good and the expensive.
- Travel — I've been lucky to see a fair bit of the world, and I think out loud better after a long flight.
Build the thing you wish existed. Write down what you learn. Repeat.
That's the whole plan. Thanks for reading — more soon.