Hi, I'm Nikhil Sukul.

Objective: Eliminate human-in-the-loop dependency by executing a fully autonomous content curation loop running entirely on local open-source orchestration (Ollama + Qwen/Mistral), avoiding proprietary vendor lock-in.

Architecture: An 8-layer cognitive workflow executing inside Next.js. A background scheduler executes pre-flight checks, grabs feed payloads, and runs local quantized inference (Ollama running `qwen2.5:3b`/Mistral). The output is run through Layer 7 schema verification gates—if it passes, it commits to a persistent SQLite database; if it fails, it enters a self-healing reflection loop to correct itself autonomously, requiring zero human supervision or human-in-the-loop correction.

Objective: Minimize active token overhead and context ingestion costs, improving agent autonomy by providing instant, relevant context-on-demand.

Architecture: A two-stage hybrid retriever combining BM25 lexical matching with dense semantic FAISS/Vector indexing. High-relevance chunks are filtered using a cross-encoder model (Cohere Rerank v3) and compressed by 40-60% using `LLMLingua-2` to remove grammatical redundancy before feeding the context. Prefix caching reduces input costs by up to 90%, preventing token waste.

Reasoning Token Budgets: To handle modern reasoning models (OpenAI o1/o3-mini, DeepSeek-R1), the system dynamically configures completion bounds and allocates structured reasoning token budgets to optimize test-time compute costs.

Objective: Defend production systems against model hallucination and drift (format failures or output leaks) through automated verification pipelines.

Architecture: Constructed an automated verification layer running asynchronous evaluations using G-Eval/RAGAS metrics to verify Faithfulness, Answer Relevance, and Context Recall. Real-time inputs and outputs pass through a Layer 7 API Gateway integrated with LlamaGuard 3 safety guardrails and structured JSON schema compliance checks, ensuring zero raw hallucinations reach the database. If any check fails, the self-healing feedback loop triggers correction without human code-sitting.