Nithik Bala

I'm a product-minded engineer designing and building useful software, currently focused on AI and thoughtful interfaces.

Work

Amulet (YC S26)Founder & CTO — High-performance file system for agents2026–present
MetaSoftware Engineer — Core Ads Growth and product infrastructure2023–2026
Calorie.aiFounder — privacy-first AI calorie tracker2023–present
Rockset (acquired by OpenAI)Software Engineer Intern — slow-query tooling for the distributed query engine2022
MetaSoftware Engineer Intern — business payments and bank-slip validation2022
Global PaymentsSoftware Engineer Intern — frontend systems for the Muon customer service platform2021
PagerDutySoftware Engineer Intern — database reliability2021