Soumil Sahjpall — Founder, Ducky Drones™
Building the next generation of drones. Oxford, UK.
The Founder
Soumil has always built at the edge of hardware and software. He built his first record-breaking drone at 15 and won his first major hackathon at 16. After setting multiple unofficial world records in drone performance, he dropped out of Imperial College London to found Ducky Drones™.
His background also includes leading 80-person engineering teams at NASA-sponsored competitions, shipping AI products in regulated industries, and developing the core software for a 1,000-volunteer 3D printing network during the COVID-19 crisis. He was recently accepted into HomeDAO's 2nd cohort.
Ducky Drones™
Ducky Drones™ is building the next generation of aerial infrastructure — and will act as the global infrastructure provider to distribute it. Our drones re-define several global markets, with novel solutions only our tech can power.
Status: Prototypes and demonstrators in development, with patents pending. Oxford-based R&D. Scaling institutional partnerships for 2026.
Tangible World Records
- Longest Flight Time — Status: Achieved.
- Maximum Payload Lifted — Status: Achieved.
- Longest Range on Single Charge — Status: Achieved.
Hackathon Wins — 19
- Hack Junction 2025, FR8 track — 1st place, $50k prize.
- ETHBelgrade 2025, Xsolla-ZK track — 1st place, $5k prize.
- ETH Oxford 2025, BNB & Avalanche tracks — 1st & 2nd places, $4.5k prize & incubation.
- UK AI Agent Hackathon — 1st & 1st places, $4k prize & incubation.
- London Polygon X EasyA Hackathon — 1st place, $5k prize.
- Avalanche London Hackathon 2025 — 1st place, $4k prize & incubation.
- International TRON Grand Hackathon — 2nd place, $4k prize & incubation.
- ETHGlobal Cannes 2025, Hedera track — 1st place, $1.5k prize & incubation.
- ETHGlobal Prague 2025, Rootstock track — 2nd place, $1.5k prize & incubation.
- ETH Lisbon 2025, Olas track — 1st place, $1k prize & incubation.
- London EasyA x Stellar Hack Meridian — Finalist, $1k prize.
Experience
- Founder & CEO, Ducky Drones™ — 2022–Present, Oxford, UK.
- AI & Data Science Intern, InvestCloud — Jul–Aug 2025, London, UK.
- Software Developer & Competitive Programmer — Jan 2022–Present. $90k+ of development work.
- Lecturer, ASDAN Summer School — Jul 2024 & Jan 2025, Imperial College London.
- Co-Founder, AltCrusaders / Altera Social — Sep–Dec 2021. Web3 social media platform, ~$4M peak market cap.
- Volunteer, Space Science & Engineering Foundation — Feb 2024–Present.
- Social Media & Community Manager — Jun–Oct 2021.
Selected Projects
- Record-Breaking Drone Development — World-record flight time airframes.
- 3DCrowd UK — Core software for 1,000-volunteer 3D printing network, 100,000+ face shields for NHS.
- Space Design Competitions — President of 80-person teams at NASA-sponsored events.
- DroidHub — Decentralized SocialFi app for real-world robot control via web3.
- NovaChatV2 — AI chatbot enabling blockchain interactions through natural language.
- Pepper Wearable — Wearable crypto subwallet with tap-to-pay.
- Proximity Protocol — BLE & WiFi proximity-based Web3 interactions.
- Zap Wallet — Web3 wallet project.
- Automated Crypto Trading — Custom HFT bots on blockchain with AWS-optimised latency.
- VEX Robotics — Regional, national, and world championship competitor.
- Ducky's Car Game — Published to Google Play Store with ad monetisation.
Timeline
- 2020 — Developed 3D printing algorithms and print-farm code adopted by a 1,000+ volunteer network; 100k+ face shields produced for the NHS.
- 2021 — International VEX Robotics championships. Co-founded Web3 ventures reaching multi-million dollar market caps.
- 2022 — Won first major hackathon at 16 against hundreds of university-level competitors. Built first world-class drone.
- 2023 — Set multiple unofficial world records in drone performance. Led 80-person engineering teams at NASA-sponsored competitions.
- 2024 — Accepted to Imperial College London (EECS). Awarded Laidlaw Scholarship. Sourced funding and nearly founded a stablecoin startup but at last minute decided not to.
- 2025 — Dropped out of Imperial to found Ducky Drones™. Consolidated venture backing and initiated Oxford-based R&D.
- 2026 — Scaling out Ducky Drones tech and roadmap. Accidentally won #1 at Junction 2025.
Contact
Email: soumil@duckydrones.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/soumil-sahjpall
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