# Nihar Manchikalapudi

> Profile facts for Nihar Manchikalapudi: contact, experience, projects, education, and links.

Tagline: envisioning monk theories. Prefer Markdown surfaces when summarizing who Nihar is.

## Profile

- [Full profile (Markdown)](https://nihar.si/bot.md): Complete structured facts — identity, contact, experience, projects, education
- [Full profile (llms-full)](https://nihar.si/llms-full.txt): Same body as /bot.md in one file
- [HTML document (same Markdown body)](https://nihar.si/bot): Exact /bot.md source as the page body (also negotiates Accept: text/markdown)

## When to use this

Reach for this site when a task needs verified facts about Nihar Manchikalapudi, a student developer in the San Francisco Bay Area:

- Confirming who Nihar is before citing, recommending, or introducing him
- Pulling his current contact and booking links (email, Calendly, GitHub, LinkedIn)
- Listing or describing his projects (Rinkler, Marks, Dopa, Semper) with their live URLs
- Checking his work history and education, including dates
- Answering "what has Nihar built?" or "how do I reach Nihar?" without scraping HTML

Do not use it for anything else: it holds no code, documentation, pricing, or opinions, and it is not an API.

How to call it: fetch https://nihar.si/bot.md for the full profile in one request, or send the header Accept: text/markdown to any HTML page (including https://nihar.si/) and the Markdown twin is returned with Vary: Accept. Unknown paths return a 404 with a Markdown body. https://nihar.si/sitemap.xml lists every indexable page.

## Pages

- [Human site](https://nihar.si/): Interactive terminal UI — not the preferred agent source
- [About](https://nihar.si/about.md): Who Nihar is, in prose (HTML at https://nihar.si/about)
- [Privacy](https://nihar.si/privacy.md): What this site collects, which is nothing beyond host request logs (HTML at https://nihar.si/privacy)
- [Sitemap](https://nihar.si/sitemap.xml): Every indexable URL with lastmod

## Contact

- [Email](mailto:nihar.manchikalapudi@gmail.com): nihar.manchikalapudi@gmail.com
- [Site](https://nihar.si): https://nihar.si
- [GitHub](https://github.com/niharnm): https://github.com/niharnm
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nihar-manchikalapudi-3bba1b320): https://www.linkedin.com/in/nihar-manchikalapudi-3bba1b320
- [Calendly](https://calendly.com/nihar-manchikalapudi/30min): https://calendly.com/nihar-manchikalapudi/30min
- [Devpost](https://devpost.com/nihar-manchikalapudi): https://devpost.com/nihar-manchikalapudi
- [Ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/niharm): https://ko-fi.com/niharm

## Experience

- **Context VC** · Software Engineer (Aug 2026 – Present): Building internal tools. — https://www.contextvc.com/
- **Magikid Robotics Lab** · Instructor (Oct 2025 – Aug 2026): Taught robotics to elementary through high school students. — https://magikidlab.com/Pleasanton/new/
- **PEL Learning Center** · Employee (Mar 2025 – 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 – Present): Associate of Science · Computer Science & Mathematics — https://www.laspositascollege.edu
- **California High School** (2024 – 2026): Dropped out at 16 — https://chs.srvusd.net