About
Hello,
I’m Nikhil - software engineer, AI architect, founder. Based in Jaipur, India.
Left IIT Delhi in Semester VI - Civil Engineering - to write software instead. That was 2009. Spent a decade freelancing and consulting out of Jaipur, then built that into CodeWithSense.
I founded CodeWithSense, an AI engineering studio under Nimara Ventures. We embed senior AI engineers directly into product teams - not as consultants who hand off decks, but as builders who own delivery. We’re at $1M+ ARR, working with enterprise clients across the US.
Alongside that, I serve as Chief AI Architect at Wanderly, where I architect and oversee the AI systems that power the product.
What I’ve actually built
Some of the systems I’ve shipped:
- AI systems for Lunchbox - agentic chat for restaurant ops, an ML recommendation engine trained on order history and behavioral signals, and voice interfaces for food ordering - all running in production across thousands of locations
- CoRecruit - agentic recruitment chat for Wanderly, conversational screening for travel nursing candidates, integrated into the existing ATS workflow
- POS integrations across five systems: Revel, Square, Toast, Brink, and Aloha - each with its own data model and failure modes
- Director of Engineering at Checkmate - led engineering across a team of 16, improved throughput 70% and cut 1TB+ of database bloat
The pattern across all of it: systems that actually run, with real users, under real load.
Autonomous companies and service as software
Two ideas I keep coming back to.
The first: AI companies that win won’t sell tools that help people do work - they’ll just do the work. Become the law firm, not the legal software. Become the school, not the tutoring platform. Sequoia wrote about this as Services: The New Software. My take: The Accountability Wrapper.
The second is where that logic ends. Not a company using AI agents, but a company that is agents - org charts, budgets, goal alignment, all the way down. That’s what PaperclipAI is building toward. More on the idea: Companies Made of Agents.
Outside the work
VIM user since the beginning. My dotfiles have 44 GitHub stars, which I choose to interpret as validation.
This site started partly because I got obsessed with OKLCH color math. The palette generator, theme builder, and gradient tool here grew out of trying to understand why perceptual color spaces produce better UI than RGB/HSL - and then building the tools I wanted to use.
The generative art sketches (p5.js, scattered through the site) are how I think through geometry and randomness. I’ve also been learning Rust by writing creative code - it turns out a strict type system is a surprisingly good constraint for making art.
Photography with a Canon EOS R6 Mark II and some beautiful prime lenses, edited in DaVinci Resolve. Speed-cubing at 48 seconds. Chess, played poorly but persistently.