Trajectory / 2001—2026

Built across
the whole stack.

Researcher, engineer, founder, consultant, and CTO. The common thread is turning ambiguity into systems that compound.

Nikit Phadke in front of a systems whiteboard
01 Builder / researcher / operator
01

First principles

Start with the shape of the problem, not the fashion of the solution.

02

Precision

Connect technical delivery to customer value, organizational health, and P&L.

03

Leverage

Build platforms, teams, and agent systems whose output grows faster than their complexity.

Career chapters

Twenty years.
One through-line.

MaayaAI

Founding Member

Architecting an AI-native cybersecurity platform: multi-agent orchestration, vulnerability intelligence, conversational security, cloud discovery, and incident response automation.

Makua

Lead Engineer → Principal → CTO

Built product and team through a critical scale-up. Created a two-line JavaScript donation plugin that helped pivot the company to B2B SaaS; later introduced AI-directed engineering velocity and agentic deployment.

TruckX

Mobile Consultant

Led fleet and dashcam initiatives during expansion into India, modernizing mobile products, integrating OEM hardware, and establishing dependable delivery systems.

Startups + Consulting

Founder / Technical Consultant

Built teams and products across education, mental health, mobile, and web—moving between immediate delivery and durable technical foundations.

NetSuite

QA Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

Progressed from test automation to product engineering, continuous integration, internal platforms, large-scale refactoring, and mentorship.

IIT Kanpur + University of Utah

B.Tech / M.S. / Research Assistant

Statistical analysis, numerical programming, modeling, and experimental design—including research for the U.S. Navy and Fairchild Semiconductor.

Selected publications

Research, applied.

  1. 01

    Thermal Training Dynamics: A Practical Enhancement for Neural Network Training Efficiency

  2. 02

    Ragged: Leveraging Video Container Formats for Efficient Vector Database Distribution

  3. 03

    Towards Semantic-Aware Code Generation: A Multi-Modal Context Architecture for AI-Assisted Programming

  4. 04

    Phase-Field Inspired Diffusion: A Strategic-Tactical Approach to Denoising Scheduling

  5. 05

    Kosa: A Federated Knowledge System for Humanity