Jayram A. Deshpande is a Technologist, Deep-Tech Entrepreneur. He founded a space technology startup, Aadi Space Inc., in December 2023 with focus on space sustainability. He is an engineer and a builder with proven track record in distributed computing, networking arena. He has done research in resource optimization algorithms, delay and disruption tolerant networking (DTN) with focus on deep space link bandwidth usage optimization problem. With over 20 years of engineering experience in the Silicon Valley, California, he has worked with several enterprise software companies in the networking domain.