Nikhil Ramesh

Founder @ Cadel AI · Engineering Leader

I build intelligence at scale. My work exists at the intersection of seamless functionality and futuristic design, crafting systems where AI meets human intuition.

Currently building the AI-native stack for the Office of the CFO. Previously architecting web-scale RAG and natural language understanding for the world's largest platforms.

The Arc

Current
Founder, Cadel AI

Building AI-native AP automation to turn invoice chaos into closed books. We use LLM-native document understanding and semantic matching to deliver 95% touchless processing for modern finance leaders.

Apple
AI/ML Engineering Leader

Led teams building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) at web scale. Enhanced natural language understanding for Siri, ensuring that billions of queries found their answers instantly.

Microsoft
Natural Language Engineer

Core development on Cortana, Bing, and Kinect. Pioneered early conversational AI interfaces that laid the groundwork for today's intelligent agents.

Writing

I’ve started documenting some of my thinking around philosophy, engineering and AI-native system design. Here's the first piece:

In Pursuit of Simplicity →