Shivani Upadhayay, founder of Shivoham Labs, started her journey in November 2024 after leaving the corporate software engineering role to engage in Svādhyāya, a deep investigation of the mechanics of consciousness and cosmology, her two great loves. As our world showcases its edges, shadows, limits, reactions, grievances, and shadow projections of the collective consciousness, Shivani has taken it upon herself to understand how darkness and duality first emerged to restore order and harmony in the cosmos. It wasn’t enough to root cause from civilization; she wanted to search for the first division all the way back to the Big Bang.

Integrity and excellence are her core values, represented best as relational language for her cosmology framework to express the fundamental nature of awareness and how everyone has access to it, so the mechanics need not feel distant from the listener. Unlike creating a theory of everything, Shivani has focused on discovering the same something in everything, promoting her message of unity consciousness to heal widespread, nested distortions. Shivoham Labs does not claim to make the infinite fully knowable. The lab studies the traces and articulations of reality while honoring what must remain beyond definition.

What sets this work apart is its heart-centered orientation. Structure alone does not know what to serve. Logic, models, and systems require vision, value, and integrity. Shivoham Labs centers the heart as the compass that gives research direction.

Coupled with a background of Computer Science from Georgia Tech and Nondual Shaiva Tantra philosophy, Shivani has provided a unique synthesis of ideas that serves as a scalable, repeatable, skeletal blueprint for the nature of reality which she hopes enables all members of society to apply their own “skin” to.