Vir Khanna · San Francisco
Agent Engineer at Nudge AI.
When a patient calls the clinic, an agent I built picks up in under half a second. Fifteen-plus run in production on LiveKit and ElevenLabs, across clinics in multiple states.
About
Mostly, I build things that talk.
Right now that's voice AI at Nudge in San Francisco — AI receptionists answering real patient calls for clinics across multiple states. Fifteen-plus are live today, booking appointments, verifying insurance, routing urgent calls. I own each one from call-flow design to the day it picks up a real phone line.
I got here through UC Davis — Computational Cognitive Science with a philosophy minor — which turned out to be the right obsession: conversation is the oldest interface there is, and the hardest one to build. Along the way I started the Machine Learning Student Network and spent most of it helping people ship their first ML that actually ran.
Off the clock I'm still at it — porting a TTS engine to Apple Silicon with Bolo, giving stateless agents a memory with Brain, writing about minds and machines on Substack, and mapping what I believe into vir.wtf.
Currently open to full-time roles. email me — vir@saidoen.com
Experience
2023 — NowCurrently
Jan 2026 — PresentAgent Engineer
AI receptionists that answer the phones for healthcare clinics. I own each one from call-flow design to live deployment — 15+ running across multiple states, booking appointments, verifying insurance, and routing urgent calls with no hold.
Writing
ON SUBSTACKMinds to machines, and everything in between.
