dhilipsiva.
currently: symbolic reasoning Bangalore, India

From whiteboard
to production.

Hands-on Technical Architect — Rust, Python, distributed systems, WebAssembly, and symbolic reasoning.

Over a decade architecting, building, and scaling systems end to end. Lately I'm retrofitting symbolic reasoning for the LLM era — building nibli, a hallucination firewall that derives instead of predicts, and writing a book about it.

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// things i built

A few things worth pointing at

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nibli

A zero-hallucination symbolic reasoning engine — a hallucination firewall for the LLM era. Lojban in, first-order logic out; every answer derived, never guessed, with a proof trace on every conclusion.

Architected & built · open-source
RustWASMSymbolic ReasoningLogic
source write-up
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cognito

A pure-Rust System 2 reasoning kernel — minimal knowledge, maximal logic. A transformer that thinks in explicit steps: think, call, result.

Architected & built · open-source
RustBurnAI Reasoning
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thirukural.ai

A gamified Gen-AI product answering questions about all 1,330 Thirukkural couplets — in Tamil, English, or Tanglish. Tamil heritage × AI, built under Nitimis.

Built · product
GenAITamilProduct
no public link
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What I'm writing

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Cover: The Fixed Point of Thought
in progress

The Fixed Point of Thought

A working book on symbolic reasoning for builders — how logic, recursion, and self-reference become real systems. Equal parts Gödel, Rust, and lab notebook. Drafting in the open.

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// musings

Latest from the notebook

Long-running thoughts on building, logic, freedom, and the occasional detour into Tamil and philosophy of mind.

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On building things that outlive their meaning

2026-05-28

The universe doesn't owe your software a reason to exist. That's not despair — it's the most freeing license a builder can be handed. A note on authoring your own fixed point.

How I Annoyed My Way to Clash Royale's Legendary Arena

2025-06-11

Reaching the Legendary Arena at 9000 trophies with a deliberately annoying, super-defensive deck — central building kill zones, elixir math, mind games, and a Suspicious Bush.

Black Holes, True Vacuum, and Cosmic Fabric: An Enthusiast's Ramblings

2024-08-20

What if black holes are regions where vacuum decay already happened, and the event horizon is a fabric of cosmic strings? A thought experiment from a self-declared non-physicist, hedged accordingly.
// now
building  nibli — a hallucination firewall reading  Gödel, Escher, Bach (again) writing  The Fixed Point of Thought role  Technical Architect @ STGI
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// off the clock

An Optimistic Nihilist who loves Science, Rust, Python, FOSS, WebAssembly, WebRTC, Web3, Distributed Systems, and symbolic reasoning.

Find me where the source lives.