Engineering zero-copy execution environments
for autonomous agents and quantitative systems.

Wyoming, USA · Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

The Thesis

"Latency is a tax."
Every millisecond of jitter bleeds alpha. We mathematically prove it.
"Infrastructure is the moat."
Software is copyable. Physics-layer execution is not.
"Agents need sovereignty."
Autonomous systems require tamper-proof, zero-trust execution enclaves.

Active Programs

Program 01 · Flagship Product
—ZeroCopy Systems
Hardware-enforced signing infrastructure for institutional trading and AI agents. 42µs ECDSA signing inside AWS Nitro Enclaves with hardware attestation, policy engine, and jitter-aware kill switch.
STATUS: Active · zerocopy.systems →
Program 02
—Jitter Tax Engine
Mathematical proof framework that quantifies execution latency as annual financial loss. Used in pre-sales to demonstrate ROI.
STATUS: Active · Research

Fundraise

Applying to Y Combinator S26.
Raising $3-5M seed to deploy sovereign signing infrastructure for institutional trading and AI agents. Pre-revenue with deep technical foundation.

Founder

Nikhil Padala
Founder & CEO
15+ years in financial infrastructure. Founding DevOps on Akuna Capital's crypto desk ($500M+ trading capital). Senior SRE at Gemini ($2B+ daily volume, 99.99% uptime). Full-time trader since 2024. MS Computer Science.
Research & Publications →

Infrastructure Stack

COMPUTE
AWS Nitro Enclaves · c6i.metal bare-metal
NETWORK
Kernel-bypass (io_uring) · vsock IPC
SIGNING
ECDSA (secp256k1, RFC 6979) · Nitro Enclave key isolation
RUNTIME
Rust · Zero-copy serialization (rkyv) · No GC
EDGE
Cloudflare Workers · R2 Object Storage
COMPLIANCE
SOC 2 Type I (planned) · EU AI Act Article 14