As a technologist who is passionate about creating products that invoke emotions, I have helped build over 30 products. I have been building production machine learning systems since 2016, back when a model meant hand-assembling layers and training loops rather than calling an API. These days I spend most of my time on agentic systems, retrieval, and on-device inference. I deeply involve myself in the architecture, planning, and development phases of products that employ both machine learning and platform development technologies. In my free time, I dabble in design, shoot film, and collect vinyl records.

• Working on Jottings, a microblog you can spin up in minutes. Your thoughts deserve a home, not a feed.
• Building Murmur, on-device voice-to-text and transcription for Mac. Docs and notes.
• Working on OpenReverie, an open source companion agent harness that has tiered hierarchical memory to remember most of what you've discussed with it. Build to stay with you, reflect, and help process information spanning years.
• Working on Reveries, a private coffee journal for iPhone with an optional quiet public page.
• Working on Ruminate, which turns therapy sessions into summaries you can revisit. On-device or cloud, your choice.
• Working on Needle, AI search optimisation. It finds what blocks AI crawlers on a site and writes the fixes.
• Working on Onlist (preview), straightforward guest lists and access management for events. Coming soon on nihil.codes.
• Maintaining Bonsai, a video downsizer for appleOS.

• Cofounded & Headed Tech at Labyrinth, Verizy, and Akuri
• Built Cacti, a completely on-device nude-photos scanner and a 256bit AES encrypted vault for iOS. Download it on the App Store.
• Built Dialogue. Download it on the App Store.
• Built NextHub, for managing multiple NextDNS accounts. Download it on the App Store.
• Built ControlHub, a Control D client for the Apple ecosystem. Feedback and issues.
• Built & Scaled KYC and identity verification that handled millions of verifications at T20 World Cup peak, computer vision systems including weapon detection deployed in the US, and NLP and AR products, mostly at Labyrinth and Verizy.

• openreverie, a companion agent harness with tiered and hierarchical memory.
• app-store-toolkit, a Claude Code plugin for App Store Connect. ASO metadata, changelogs, and IAP copy, synced straight to App Store Connect.
• gateway-bench, a benchmark for the latency overhead AI gateways add over direct calls to OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
• other-memory, the complete Dune saga as one interactive timeline. 35,000 years, all novels, all eras.
• SwiftFSM and Animator, small Swift libraries from earlier years that people still use.

• I write about AI and society at musings.vishalvshekkar.com, on things like on-device ML profiling encrypted data, the zero-click internet, and how the web is being rewritten for machines.
• More of my work lives at vishalvshekkar.com, and the more experimental end of it at nihil.codes.
• Ask me about machine learning, agentic systems and retrieval, managing tech teams, design, scaling tech platforms, encryption, and Swift.
• I'm passionate about privacy, online security, good design, and egalitarianism.
• Cofounded: Labyrinth and Verizy.
• How to reach me: vishalvshekkar.com | vishal@vishalvshekkar.com
• Find more of my work on GitLab.