Rikhil Nellimarla

> building voice agents, agentic backends, and things that ship

AI and backend engineer with a background in electronics. I build real-time voice AI systems, multi-agent architectures, and the telephony infrastructure that connects them to the real world. Currently a 3rd-year ECE undergrad at VIT Amaravati.

> latest posts

> experience

TargetDial

Jan 2026 – Feb 2026
Forward Deployment Engineer / AI Voice Engineer
Virtual (US-based)

Built and shipped production AI voice agents integrated with SIP/Asterisk/FreePBX telephony stacks for inbound lead qualification and outbound follow-ups. Designed end-to-end call workflows spanning voice → intent detection → CRM actions → calendar booking with GoHighLevel and n8n automations.

Indominus Labs

May 2025 – Present
AI Engineer
Hyderabad, India

Pioneered SIP trunking integration to bridge LiveKit with legacy telephony providers (VICIDIAL). Engineered a scalable data pipeline on bare-metal GH200 to process 1M+ customer call logs with Whisper v3 transcription, PII sanitization, and multi-agent performance analysis.

Stealth VC Project

Jun 2025 – Sep 2025
AI Engineer
Virtual

Developed a custom turn-detection model for Hindi, overcoming a core LiveKit SDK limitation for non-English voice agents. Architected scalable telephony infrastructure using Asterisk as middleware to route calls to various endpoints including WhatsApp.

Clink

May 2025 – Present
Founding AI Engineer
Virtual · Pre-seed cafe analytics startup

Built a full-stack AI backend orchestrating 8+ specialized agents for analysis, chat, forecasting, and image generation — serving 80+ onboarded cafes. Production infrastructure with PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, and full async observability via Logfire.

Open Source Community (Mozilla), VIT

May 2025 – Present
Technical Lead
Amravati, India

Leading 100+ student developers in open-source practices. Conducting workshops on WebRTC, API Design, and Backend Development. Overseeing 6 open-source projects with technical roadmap and code review processes.

> projects

// other things i've built

  • MemoryWeave — Real-time object detection streams converted to AI-generated stories. <100ms latency. Winner @ HackSRM 2024
  • Converso — Voice-based conversational RAG on an ESP32-S3 IoT device. Records, transcribes, and retrieves from past conversations.
  • Dungeons & Fallacies — Text-based RPG where combat is a logical debate. AI judge evaluates argument soundness against a "Null Hypothesis."
  • Pixy — Self-hosted AI Discord bot for 100+ members with persistent per-user memory via pgvector. NGINX · Supabase
  • Terminal Chatbot — CLI chatbot with bash execution tools and a rich Textual TUI. Groq · Textual

> skills

languages
Python Java C C++ Go SQL JavaScript TypeScript
ml & ai
PyTorch Transformers Scikit-Learn Spacy Unsloth DeepStream Computer Vision NLP RAG LLMOps
agentic & generative ai
LangChain LangGraph Pydantic AI LiveKit Retell
backend & telephony
FastAPI REST APIs WebRTC WebSockets Asterisk FreePBX SIP Trunking RTP/NAT
databases & storage
PostgreSQL MySQL Supabase Redis Pinecone Weaviate Cloudflare R2
cloud & devops
AWS Docker NGINX GitHub Actions VPS/Linux Logfire

> achievements

  • Presented the VISU humanoid robot to the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu, at VLaunchPad.
  • Winner, HackSRM 2024 (Open Innovation track) for the MemoryWeave project.
  • 3rd Place, Post-a-thon at VIT-AP — showcased IntelliPost to Union Minister Shri Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani.
  • Technical talks to 100+ attendees on agent architectures and LLM security at Null Vijayawada, NIT Warangal, and SRM University.
  • Led the tech team for AP CID home guard exams — backend and on-site infrastructure.