Hey I'm Nivi!

I build technology for the human, embodied things most software gives up on. Right now that's hospital food, as cofounder and CTO of Banquet Health.

Before Banquet I spent a decade at vertical SaaS companies, Blend (IPO'd 2021), Turvo (acquired 2022), and Brex (acquired by Capital One in 2026), building for the high-touch, compliance-heavy customers that aren't so different from hospitals. I was the first female eng lead and an early product manager at Blend. I studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon with a minor in machine learning, where my research was on asthma patients, and graduated a year early. I learned to code in high school at hackathons with my mom, which turned into six months as a Facebook engineer while I was still in high school.

Outside of work I'm learning Bharatnatyam and Carnatic singing as an adult, I've been a certified meditation instructor (Kundalini and other forms) for over ten years, and I write fiction. I've published a few short stories, like Never Touched, about a world where children are employee perks, and Snakes & Serpents, a serial set in a world where meditation is magic. And I'm drafting a fantasy trilogy about magic written on skin.