CTO | VP Engineering | AI Practitioner & Governance Strategist
I design, architect, and ship production systems across every pattern of the Human Intelligence Partnership Charter: the Foundation pattern, where AI is my daily build partner. The Tooling pattern, where the products I ship use AI to build but work without any AI dependency. The Pipeline pattern, where AI enriches data behind the scenes and users never see it. And the Integration pattern, where AI works alongside proprietary APIs and live data at runtime. These are not wrappers. They are architectures designed for two intelligences working together.
The building taught me something. The first product took nine months. The most recent took a day. The tools did not change. The understanding did. And the hardest problem in AI is not what the machine can produce. It is the structural gap between what the human means and what the machine does. I call it the Intent Layer. That insight became the HIP Charter, AI Trust Commons, and the From Instinct to Intent™ series.
25 years at Microsoft, T-Mobile, AT&T, Expedia Group, and Hitachi Consulting watching the distance grow between what leaders intended and what systems actually delivered. The governance layer between intent and execution was always the hardest part to get right. The same pattern is playing out in AI.
Human Intelligence Partnership Charter — Four partnership patterns for human-AI systems. Fifteen positions on the map.
hipcharter.com | Medium | Zenodo | GitHub
From Instinct to Intent™ — Publication series on the structural gap between human intent and machine execution. USPTO trademark filed. Book in progress.
Article 1: Discovering Intent | Medium | Zenodo
Article 2: Languages Designed for Humans | Medium | Zenodo
Article 3: Engine vs Steering Wheel | Medium | Zenodo
Article 4: Stop Calling It Artificial | Medium | Zenodo
Article 5: Discovering Humanity Through AI | Medium | Zenodo
NIST RFI on AI Agent Security — ~5,000 word submission. Deployer perspective across 8 organizations, 7 industries.
regulations.gov | Zenodo
NCCoE: Intent Conveyance in AI Agent Authorization — ~5,900 word response. Intent as the missing authorization layer.
aitrustcommons.org | Medium | Zenodo
AI Trust Commons — Open-source governance for AI agents in the enterprise.
aitrustcommons.org | Blog | GitHub
ResyncLife — Personal command center. Voice capture, calendar sync, family circles. FastAPI + SwiftUI iOS. All four HIP Charter patterns. The center of the bloom.
resynclife.com | API
Recurate — Suite of five extensions for the AI interaction lifecycle. Composer, Annotator, Copier, Connect, Platform.
recurate.ai | Platform | GitHub
Annotator | Composer | Copier — Chrome Web Store
ScreenTrades — AI-powered trading analysis. 1,882 commits, 20+ real-time APIs. Integration pattern.
screentrades.ai
TourGraph — 136K+ tours, 3,380 destinations. Express + TypeScript + Next.js + SwiftUI. Pipeline pattern.
tourgraph.ai | iOS | Android APK | GitHub
GitaVani — Bhagavad Gita reader. 701 verses, 17 scholars, Sanskrit audio. Pipeline pattern.
gitavani.app | Android APK | Play Store | GitHub
ClearNews — News aggregator. 41 sources, 13 categories, no ads. Pipeline pattern.
getclearnews.com | iOS | Android APK | GitHub
CoPilots Launchpad — M365 test account management. MIT license. Tooling pattern.
GitHub
US 7,634,458 | US 8,024,328 — Microsoft Corporation
CTO and VP Engineering roles across Expedia ($45M savings), Imperative ($1M→$4M ARR as CTO & Head of Product), The Tour Guy (400% operational efficiency), T-Mobile, Microsoft, AT&T, Hitachi Consulting (200+ engineers led). 114 LinkedIn recommendations.
Portfolio | LinkedIn | AI Trust Commons | HIP Charter | ORCID | OmSpark
nikhil@aitrustcommons.org · Seattle, WA