{"id":6147,"date":"2025-07-22T14:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:08:25","slug":"from-bareilly-to-billion-byte-how-srms-engineering-college-shaped-the-grit-behind-a-forbes-featured-tech-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/from-bareilly-to-billion-byte-how-srms-engineering-college-shaped-the-grit-behind-a-forbes-featured-tech-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM BAREILLY TO BILLION-BYTE: HOW SRMS ENGINEERING COLLEGE SHAPED THE GRIT BEHIND A FORBES-FEATURED TECH FOUNDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SRMS Alumnus Utkarsh Srivastava now features in Forbes India for building \u20b9200 Cr fintech &amp; privacy SaaS firm, Securelytix<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Utkarsh Srivastava<\/strong> entered <strong>SRMS College of Engineering and Technology (CET), Bareilly<\/strong>, he was like most students \u2014 hopeful, curious, and unsure of the future. What he didn\u2019t know was that his journey would earn him a spot among India\u2019s most inspiring tech leaders, featured in <strong>Forbes India\u2019s Leaders of Change 2024<\/strong> for building <strong>Securelytix<\/strong>. Behind the headlines lies a quieter, more human story, of foundations built in classrooms, challenges faced in college, and ideas nurtured slowly &amp; steadily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSRMS didn\u2019t just give me an education; it gave me space to think,\u201d says <strong>Utkarsh, BTech (EC) alumnus, Batch 2007\u201311<\/strong> and Co-Founder &amp; CEO of Fstac. \u201cThe environment was honest and grounded. Faculty pushed me to ask better questions, not just find answers. From late nights debugging projects to mentor discussions, every experience shaped who I\u2019m today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was at SRMS CET that Utkarsh learned to code, lead, and adapt. The college\u2019s labs and initiative-driven culture shaped him into not just a techie, but a thinker and doer. Over time, he honed his fintech, API, and data compliance skills, eventually launching Securelytix; now supporting secure data infrastructure across BFSI, healthcare, and public sectors in India and the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by strategic advisor <strong>Mr Natrajan<\/strong> (former CFO, Ratan Tata\u2019s UC-RNT Fund), Utkarsh\u2019s firm is scaling rapidly. Yet, he stays rooted in the values SRMS instilled\u2014resilience, clarity, and courage to defy norms. As India moves toward a data-driven future, his journey proves that innovation doesn\u2019t always begin in metros or Silicon Valley; sometimes, it starts in the quiet corridors of a campus like SRMS, where a curious mind is given the right space to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRMS Alumnus Utkarsh Srivastava now features in Forbes India for building \u20b9200 Cr fintech &amp; privacy SaaS firm, Securelytix When<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[71,72,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6150,"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions\/6150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srms.ac.in\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}