# Nihar Shah

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

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), new york city, ny
- **subconscious ai** — ai engineer (aug 2025 – jan 2026), new york city, ny
- **hustle fund** — angel squad member (oct 2024 – present)
- **starkware** — exploration software engineer (sep 2024 – apr 2025)
- **sizzle** — advisor (apr 2024 – aug 2025), manhattan, ny
- **nethermind** — researcher (may 2024 – aug 2024)
- **hifi bridge** — software engineer (sep 2023 – feb 2024), new york, ny
- **block convey** — technical lead (jun 2023 – aug 2023), new york, ny
- **great lakes institute of management** — visiting faculty - blockchain (mar 2022 – jul 2022)
- **opx ai** — blockchain lead (jun 2021 – jul 2022), india
- **vyom labs** — data scientist (jan 2020 – mar 2021), pune, india

## Selected projects

- [repokg](https://github.com/NehharShah/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](https://github.com/NehharShah/repocanon) — Analyzes a repository once and generates repo-specific context for Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Cursor from a normalized deterministic project model.
- [astra](https://github.com/NehharShah/astra) — An experiment in what software looks like when agents stop answering questions and start coordinating actions.
- [yield pool watcher](https://yield-pool-watcher.vercel.app/) — An autonomous agent watching markets across 16 networks and deciding where attention should go.

## Research

- [BALI: Solvency-Constrained Batch Liquidation as a Cryptoeconomic Control Mechanism](https://niharshah.xyz/research/bali) — SECRYPT 2026 (full paper)
- [Calibrated Agents as Market Makers: Automated Liquidity Provision for Long-Tail Prediction Markets](https://niharshah.xyz/research/calibrated-agents) — IEEE AI-R2D2 2026 at ICBC (full paper)
- [Hyperbolic Funding Rate Mechanisms for Open Interest Balancing in Perpetual Futures Markets](https://niharshah.xyz/research/hyperbolic-funding) — Designing DeFi 2026
- [Information-Theoretic Limits of Settlement Verification in Oracle-Based Decentralized Finance](https://niharshah.xyz/research/settlement-verification-limits) — BSCT 2026
- [Settlement Verification in DeFi Credit: An Empirical Comparison of Production Oracle Systems](https://niharshah.xyz/research/defi-credit-oracles) — IEEE CryptoEx 2026 (poster)

## Links

- [GitHub](https://github.com/NehharShah)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/nihar-shah-139331106)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3I6qhW0AAAAJ)
- [PDF](https://niharshah.xyz/resume.pdf)