Nikhil Singhal

CTO · VP Engineering · AI Practitioner & Governance Strategist
Seattle, WA

I design, architect, and ship production systems across every pattern of the Human Intelligence Partnership Charter: Foundation, Tooling, Pipeline, and Integration. Not wrappers. Architectures designed for two intelligences working together.

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.

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.

What I'm Building

ResyncLife Flagship

A personal command center that treats your whole life as one life. Voice capture with NL parsing, calendar sync (EventKit, ICS, OAuth), family circles, goal tracking. FastAPI + SwiftUI iOS + sync engine. The only product in the portfolio that lives in all four HIP Charter patterns simultaneously. Full stack shipped in a day, after a year of learning across every other product.

The center of the bloom.

Recurate Suite of 5

Five extensions for the complete AI interaction lifecycle. Composer formats input. Annotator curates output. Copier captures conversations as clean markdown or styled HTML across 7 platforms. Connect coordinates between parallel AI chats with one-click context sharing. Platform compares responses across Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok side by side. Chrome Web Store + VS Code.

ScreenTrades Integration

AI-powered trading analysis. 1,882 commits over 10 months, the origin project where the AI partnership started. 20+ real-time data APIs, confidence scores, transparent reasoning. V2.0 web + iOS shipped.

TourGraph Pipeline

Tour discovery across 136K+ experiences in 3,380 destinations. Express 5 + TypeScript backend, Next.js web, SwiftUI iOS with MapKit globe.

GitaVani Pipeline

Bhagavad Gita reader. 701 verses, 17 scholars, Sanskrit audio. iOS + Android.

ClearNews Pipeline

News aggregator. 41 sources, 13 categories, no ads. iOS + Android + Web + API.

CoPilots Launchpad Tooling

M365 test account management. Azure Trusted Signing. macOS + Windows. MIT license.

What the Building Taught Me

Human Intelligence Partnership Charter
Four partnership patterns for human-AI systems. Fifteen positions on the map. Published on hipcharter.com, Medium, and Zenodo.
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
The manifesto. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18917473
Article 2: Languages Designed for Humans
AI-native programming languages. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19005877
Article 3: Engine vs Steering Wheel
The intent gap is architecture-agnostic. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19025149
Article 4: Stop Calling It Artificial
The HIP Charter. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19079578
NIST Public Comment on AI Agent Governance
~5,000 word submission to NIST CAISI docket. Deployer perspective across 8 organizations, 7 industries.
AI Trust Commons
Open-source governance for AI agents in the enterprise.

Background

Before this: CTO and VP Engineering roles across Expedia ($45M savings), Imperative ($1M to $4M ARR as CTO & Head of Product), The Tour Guy (400% operational efficiency), T-Mobile, Microsoft, AT&T, Hitachi Consulting (200+ engineers led).

Compliance deployed across telecom, travel, fintech, healthcare, education, green energy, and IoT. 114 LinkedIn recommendations from peers, reports, and executives.

Harvard University, Graduate Studies in Distributed Computing and UNIX System Programming. Bangalore University, B.S. Computer Science & Engineering (Top 1% of class).

Connect

Open to CTO, VP Engineering, and senior technical leadership roles. Also available for advisory, consulting, and contract engagements through OmSpark.