Human judgment. Powered by AI.
Velocity is free now.
Direction is the new scarcity.
Nirai sets the technical direction for seed and Series-A startups, so a small team ships the right thing fast. Architecture, AI systems, DevOps, and platform engineering, led hands-on.
What we do
Three ways we move you forward
Hands-on engineering leadership, not slideware. Pick the engagement that fits where you are.
Fractional & Advisory Leadership
Advisory CTO and DevOps architect, hands-on. The senior judgment your team needs before you hire a full-time exec.
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Building AI Systems
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Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, accelerated by our own battle-tested platforms.
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We don’t start from a blank page
Our engagements are de-risked by our own production-grade platforms, so you inherit solid engineering fundamentals from day one.
DevOps platform
Adikal
A cloud-agnostic DevOps platform that abstracts away Kubernetes complexity. Easy to use, cost-efficient, and self-managed for growing teams.
- Cloud-agnostic, no lock-in
- Abstracts away Kubernetes complexity
- Cost-efficient and self-managed
SaaS starter
Mudhal
An opinionated, production-grade foundation for SaaS apps. It makes the hard architectural decisions (auth, multi-tenancy, typed data, billing) so you start from solid fundamentals.
- Auth & multi-tenancy (Clerk organizations)
- Typed data layer (Cloudflare D1 + Drizzle)
- Tier-based pricing, limits & billing (Polar)
- Runs on a single Cloudflare Worker
Builder Workshop
From idea to deployed prototype. In one day.
A hands-on workshop that takes non-technical founders from an idea to a real, deployed product, complete with auth, a database, and payments, using AI-assisted coding. No coding experience required.
- Define your idea as a buildable spec
- Stand up auth and a database
- Wire up serverless APIs and payments
- Ship to production, and understand it
The principal
Vagmi Mudumbai
Nirai is led by Vagmi, a hands-on Advisory CTO and DevOps architect with 24+ years of building and shipping software. AI-assisted coding has commoditized velocity, but it hasn’t solved judgment, taste, or the hard architectural calls. That’s the work.
What clients say
Trusted with the hard calls
Throughout his engagement, Vagmi demonstrated exceptional technical depth, professionalism, and a strong commitment to delivering high-quality work. We recommend him without reservation for any role requiring expertise in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, cybersecurity, and systems integration.
Over the past years, Vagmi Mudumbai has been instrumental in integrating AI within our organization at Sedin, serving as a benchmark for enabling success with our clients. From implementing on-device computer vision models to architecting LLM-powered RAG systems, he kept us at the forefront of technological adoption.
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Let’s set the direction.
Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll talk through where you are, where you’re headed, and whether Nirai is the right fit.