About
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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.
Short resume
- 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