# About Nihar Manchikalapudi

Who Nihar Manchikalapudi is, where he has worked, what he has built, and how to reach him.

Last updated: 2026-10-19
Canonical: https://nihar.si/about

## Who

Nihar Manchikalapudi is a student in the San Francisco Bay Area who builds apps, robotics code, and Mac software. This site is a one-page profile: what he has shipped, where he has worked, and how to reach him.

He left California High School at 16 and enrolled at Diablo Valley College, where he is working toward an Associate of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics. Alongside school he has taught robotics to elementary through high school students and co-founded an iOS app used for grades and GPA tracking.

## Work

Software Engineer at Context VC (Aug 2026 to Present): Building internal tools. https://www.contextvc.com/

Instructor at Magikid Robotics Lab (Oct 2025 to Aug 2026): Taught robotics to elementary through high school students. https://magikidlab.com/Pleasanton/new/

Employee at PEL Learning Center (Mar 2025 to Sep 2025): Supported students on-site at a learning center. https://pellearning.com/san-ramon-tutoring/

## Projects

Rinkler (web app, live): Referral and loyalty rewards for local businesses. https://rinkler.app

Marks (iOS · Co-Founder): A better Infinite Campus for grades and GPA. https://marks.cx/

Dopa (system · opensource): Predicts ad CTR from TRIBE v2 cortical response before spend. https://itsdopa.vercel.app/

Soggy Boats (web game · Founder): Free paper boat game in the browser: 15 levels, drift racing. https://www.soggy.boats/

Semper (macOS · opensource): Open-source macOS menu bar app for audio, windows and more. https://semper.systems

## Education

Las Positas College (2027 to Present): Associate of Science · Computer Science & Mathematics https://www.laspositascollege.edu

California High School (2024 to 2026): Dropped out at 16 https://chs.srvusd.net

## This site

The human version of this site is an interactive terminal that streams the profile like a command reply. The same facts are published for software agents as plain Markdown at /bot.md and indexed at /llms.txt, and every HTML page also answers requests that send Accept: text/markdown.

All content on this site is written and maintained by Nihar Manchikalapudi. Project descriptions, dates, and links are kept current by hand; if something looks out of date, email is the fastest way to get it fixed.

## Contact

Email: nihar.manchikalapudi@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/niharnm

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nihar-manchikalapudi-3bba1b320

Calendly: https://calendly.com/nihar-manchikalapudi/30min

Devpost: https://devpost.com/nihar-manchikalapudi

Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/niharm