About

Hey, I am Nikhil (நிக்கில்). 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.

Top 5 posts by views:

• Attacks on machine learning models
• Counterfactual Regret Minimization or How I won any money in Poker?
• Diffusion models are interesting
• How to bundle different games?
• We should all have something to hide - Tornado cash takedown

Short resume

• 2025-Present
  • AI resident 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
  • Led the product and business for the Poker app in 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 Mathematica
  • Did some cool internships with low acceptance rates