Hey, I am Nikhil. I love to learn and hack around with new technologies. This site is a partial collection of stories I’ve written down, my general musings and the software I work on. There is no particular theme to this site; it’s just a place to hang random text.
2025-Present
- Doing some AI stuff at Accel
- If you are building in AI, mail me on [email protected]
2024
- Led product for DynamoEval. An LLM evaluation suite for detecting data leakages, hallucinations, compliance/goverance issues and other security vulnerabilities.
2018-2023
- Responsible for the product and business verticals for the Poker app at Paytm and scaled it to a $10m biz
- Trading and yeild farming across all DeFi protocols
- Played professional poker (all.in adj 11bb/100), built a poker analytics tool startup and ran a coaching and staking operation
- Started at Flipkart as a PM to build their data platform ingestion pipelines and BNPL product
2014-2018
- Focus was on learning how computers work. Self taught programmer. Started with web dev but spent majority time on OS, computer security and network protocols. Contributed a ton to FOSS projects
- Wrote malware shellcode obfuscators for OWASP and added packaet sniffing suport for Wolfram Mathematica
- Did some cool internships with low acceptance rates
- Tools for the era of experience
- AI Investing frameworks
- n8n vs Zapier vs Workato vs Tray.io
- Airtable "Omni" app builder review
- AI.Engineer 2025 conference - Key takeaways
- How to optimise latency for voice agents
- Voice agent pricing calculator
- Flipping some coins with LLMs
- Is outbound going to die?
- Will MCP stay for the long term?
- Introduction to AI agents
- Investing through tech cycles
- Diffusion models are interesting
- How much does a man need?
- Receipe - cold coffee
- Can you bet on everything?
- How to (Accurately) Evaluate RAG Systems on Tabular Data
- Tackling the Explainability Gap in RAG Hallucination Evals
- Unlocking Differential Privacy for >7B Parameter LLMs
- Integrating Explainable LLM Data Leakage Testing into your CI/CD Pipeline
- Testing LLMs for Data Leakage Vulnerabilities
- Why do I write?
- Attacks on machine learning models
- AI Alignment - Weak-to-strong generalization
- CFR or How I won any money in Poker?
- LLM security - Part 2
- LLM security - Part 1
- Building a chrome extension using only AI
- Chinchilla review
- Farewell to the felt - Quitting the full-time Poker scene
- Example checklist
- Framework for game selection
- Bundling <> gaming
- State of Real Money Gaming (RMG) in India
- Classifying 2022 DeFi protocols
- The magic words are squeamish ossifrage
- A take on web3/DeFi
- Problem of a retail investor in DeFi
- Make Poker fun again
- Derivative protocols in DeFi
- We should all have something to hide - TC takedown
- Blockchain gaming - is it mostly hype?
- GTO Inspector - Indie SaaS for poker pros
- New website theme, job and hobbies
- Luasec - Lua HTTPS Library
- A Secure Portknocking Implementation - Portsmith
- Sailor - A MVC framework in Lua