// london, uk · est. rajasthan
Dilip Pungliya has spent twenty-five years architecting data for the world’s most demanding institutions — investment banks, energy majors, and government. Today he co-founds and builds the intelligent platforms that come next.
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An architect reads the world as entities and relationships. These are the four that define the work.
Modelling, governance, and lineage for institutions where a wrong field costs millions — regulatory, risk, and trading data at global scale.
Co-founding ztudium: AI, Web 3.0, blockchain and metaverse products, plus a network of research and media platforms used worldwide.
Promoter and technology advisor to VPRPL, a listed Indian infrastructure company — digital strategy, transformation, and business development since 2014.
A family legacy of service: food relief in droughts and floods, community organising through the pandemic, and a charity podcast that kept spirits up in lockdown.
// trace lineage --from 1997
Every architect knows: you understand a system by tracing where its data has been. The same is true of a career.
1997 — Amravati, India
SSGMCE, Amravati University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical — the foundation in systems thinking.
1999 — India
Softsol ENT
Technology leader — first years shipping software and leading teams.
2001 — Mumbai
NSE / NSE.IT
Inside India’s national stock exchange — where markets and data first met.
2004 — Mumbai
Ness Technologies
Design, delivery, and database management for international clients worldwide.
2007 — London
MRM Worldwide
The move to the UK — database consulting in a new market.
2008–2021 — City of London
The banking decade
Enterprise Data Architect across four global institutions — regulatory, policy, financial and non-financial risk, and the instruments that move markets.
2014 — ongoing
VPRPL
Promoter and technology advisor to the family’s listed infrastructure company — strategy, transformation, and growth.
2021 — UK
Shell · DEFRA
Solution and data architecture beyond finance — energy, environment, flooding, agriculture, and international trade.
2023 — present
ztudium Group
Co-Founder, VP & Chief Business Officer — building 4IR technology: AI, Web 3.0, blockchain, and a global network of knowledge platforms.
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// vision
“Business should be built on compassion, fairness, and integrity — creating value for the community in every decision, from sourcing to service.”
Dilip Pungliya · on socially responsible business
Notes on data, ventures & 4IR
Essays and observations from the intersection of architecture and ambition.