Nihar Shah

I work on systems that trade, hedge, route, reconcile, and recover without waiting for a human.

Current focus

Currently building autonomous trading and risk infrastructure. Previously worked across AI agents, market infrastructure, and zero-knowledge systems.

Experience

ostium · senior backend engineer
jan 2026 – present
subconscious ai · ai engineer
aug 2025 – jan 2026
hustle fund · angel squad member
oct 2024 – present
starkware · exploration software engineer
sep 2024 – apr 2025
sizzle · advisor
apr 2024 – aug 2025
nethermind · researcher
may 2024 – aug 2024
hifi bridge · software engineer
sep 2023 – feb 2024
block convey · technical lead
jun 2023 – aug 2023
great lakes institute of management · visiting faculty - blockchain
mar 2022 – jul 2022
opx ai · blockchain lead
jun 2021 – jul 2022
vyom labs · data scientist
jan 2020 – mar 2021

Selected projects

repokg

Generates an AI-ready knowledge graph of a codebase: module inventory, import graph, branch/PR state, contributor history, and CI/Docker/Helm/Make surface, rendered to KNOWLEDGE_GRAPH.md and machine-readable JSON.

repocanon

Analyzes a repository once and generates repo-specific context for Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Cursor from a normalized deterministic project model.

astra

An experiment in what software looks like when agents stop answering questions and start coordinating actions.

yield pool watcher

An autonomous agent watching markets across 16 networks and deciding where attention should go.

Research

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