KALIKI
LABS
Kaliki Labs is built and run by two siblings from Andhra Pradesh, India, who happen to share the same surname, the same childhood, and a stubborn love for shipping useful software people actually keep installed.
Product, Design & Software Engineering · Co-builder.
Yuva is a co-founder, developer, and designer. He codes web applications, designs how every app feels, and co-develops software architecture. Together with Jayakrishnaa, he actively builds and codes the studio's applications, making every product a joint engineering effort.
When he's not coding frontend systems or designing user interfaces, he's exploring modern browser engines, compiler designs, or researching technical user experience patterns. He believes that outstanding software is a marriage of robust engineering and clean aesthetics.
Mobile Engineering, Release Ops & Software Engineering · Co-builder.
Jayakrishnaa is a co-founder and mobile engineer. Working side-by-side with Yuva to code and build all their applications, he focuses on high-performance mobile engineering, writes core Kotlin/Java code, and manages release operations.
He cares about the small things: boot time, crash rate, memory footprint, and the way a button feels when you tap it. Most of his weekends go into optimizing local databases, trimming APK size, or shaving 50ms off screen transitions. The result is response-optimized apps like SmartScan, Pixdoc, and GameArena.
"Kaliki" is our family name; "Labs" is what we'd jokingly call our shared workspace at home, a corner of the room with two laptops, three notebooks and a whiteboard that nobody is allowed to wipe. The name stuck.
We grew up using apps that were either expensive, unreliable, or quietly hostile to their users, apps that uploaded scans of our IDs to "the cloud" without saying so, that locked basic features behind aggressive paywalls, that pushed notifications begging us to come back. We started building the kind of apps we wished existed instead.
We wanted to install our own apps, on our own parents' phones, and feel good about it.
Our first public release is SmartScan, an offline document scanner we use ourselves every week. Pixdoc and GameArena are next, with more apps planned beyond that. We'll keep shipping every few months, small, focused tools we'd be happy to install on our own parents' phones.
Feedback, bug reports, app ideas, or just a hello, write to us. We reply to every legitimate message, usually within a day or two.
Detailed bios, photographs and links will be added as the studio grows. The names above are real; the rest is the founders' best attempt at writing about themselves without sounding like a press release.