# nikhilpadala.com: LLM Index

> Nikhil Padala, fractional CTO for AI agent startups and crypto trading firms.
> Ex-Gemini SRE · Ex-Akuna Capital · ZeroCopy Systems founder.

## Key Pages

- https://nikhilpadala.com (home)
- https://nikhilpadala.com/work (fractional CTO services, productized fixed-scope audits starting at $3,500, ongoing engagement scoped per client after audit delivery)
- https://nikhilpadala.com/work/for-cto (for AI startup founders / CTOs, EU AI Act Article 14 Engineering Readiness audit, deadline Aug 2 2026)
- https://nikhilpadala.com/work/for-funds (for crypto prop shops and funds, Latency & Jitter Deep Dive, TEE signing)
- https://nikhilpadala.com/work/case-studies (shipped case studies with quantified outcomes)
- https://nikhilpadala.com/engagement (productized fixed-scope audits: Architecture Diagnostic Scan $3,500/5d, Latency & Jitter Deep Dive $18,000/3w; deeper audits Article 14 Engineering Readiness / TEE & Custody / Compliance + Custody Bundle scoped per client)
- https://nikhilpadala.com/writing (weekly essays on infrastructure and trading)
- https://nikhilpadala.com/research (technical research papers)
- https://nikhilpadala.com/tools (open-source latency tools)
- https://nikhilpadala.com/about (background and career narrative)
- https://zerocopy.systems (ZeroCopy Systems, TEE signing platform)

## Full Context
- https://nikhilpadala.com/llms-full.txt