# Vikas Goel > Indian AI founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Nexiva and blackNgreen, specialising in AI Agent Architecture, Voice AI, Enterprise AI Agents, and Sovereign AI research. 25+ years in production engineering with platforms reaching 290M+ end-users across 4 continents. Independent AI research at ThinkerWave (patent application 202611044024 filed at the Indian Patent Office, April 2026). Also spelled Vikash Goel. Vikas Goel is a 25-year-veteran technology executive based in Gurgaon, India. He currently serves as CTO at Nexiva (enterprise SaaS for autonomous AI voice agents, live across India, MENA, and LATAM) and at blackNgreen (enterprise SaaS company serving 160+ enterprise customers, 290M+ end-users, $20M+ ARR). He runs independent Sovereign AI research at ThinkerWave on self-evolving agent systems, with patent application 202611044024 filed at the Indian Patent Office in April 2026. Earlier work includes MagicCall (real-time voice changer for phone calls, 14M+ Google Play downloads, 2017), 17 years across CMC, HCL/LexisNexis, Hughes Software Systems, Aricent, and VNL building telecom signalling, switching, and rural GSM infrastructure. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from HBTI Kanpur (1996) and an M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence from BITS Pilani (2022). Open to Chief AI Officer (CAIO), Board / Independent Director, and Strategic Advisory engagements. ## Pillar pages - [About Vikas Goel](https://vikasgoel.com/about/): The full career arc — from telecom backbone work in 1996 to enterprise SaaS at blackNgreen to Voice AI and AI Agents at Nexiva. Credentials, education, current roles, and the engineering principles behind 25 years of production work. - [Sovereign AI from India](https://vikasgoel.com/sovereign-ai/): What Sovereign AI actually requires (compute, foundation models, agent architectures, operator depth), why India is a natural Sovereign AI hub, and how ThinkerWave contributes India-origin research to AI Agent Architecture. - [AI Agent Architecture for Enterprise Production](https://vikasgoel.com/ai-agent-architecture/): The five load-bearing decisions in production agent architecture (evaluation first, multi-tenancy, observable failure, orchestrator-substrate-tool separation, evolving identity and objective). Written from running voice AI in front of 290M+ users. - [Research](https://vikasgoel.com/research/): Independent Sovereign AI research at ThinkerWave on self-evolving agent systems where both identity and evaluation criteria mutate generationally while knowledge persists. Patent pending at the Indian Patent Office. - [Ventures & Projects](https://vikasgoel.com/ventures/): Nexiva (AI voice agents at enterprise scale), blackNgreen (enterprise SaaS, 160+ customers, 290M+ users), ThinkerWave (independent AI research), MagicCall (14M+ downloads consumer voice product). - [Advisory & Board Engagements](https://vikasgoel.com/advisory/): Open to CAIO opportunities, Board / Independent Director roles, Strategic Advisory positions with AI startups, and Fractional CTO engagements. ## Blog - [Tokenmaxxing: Why AI Agents Burn Millions of Tokens — and Why GitHub Trained Them To](https://vikasgoel.com/blog/tokenmaxxing-github-training-data-ai-token-waste/): Why AI agents burn tokens (trained eagerness from verbose GitHub code), why prose instructions don't stop it (soft contract problem), and what to build instead — a harness, not a smarter horse. - [Building Voice AI Systems That Don't Embarrass You in Production](https://vikasgoel.com/blog/building-voice-ai-systems/): What it actually takes to put AI voice agents on real customer calls — latency budgets, language switching, hallucination tolerance, and the gap between demo and production. - [AI Agents Reshaping Business](https://vikasgoel.com/blog/ai-agents-reshaping-business/): Where AI agents are actually moving business processes, from an operator perspective. - [AI Automation Infrastructure](https://vikasgoel.com/blog/ai-automation-infrastructure/): The infrastructure layer beneath production AI agents. - [Future of Human-AI Collaboration](https://vikasgoel.com/blog/future-human-ai-collaboration/): How human-AI collaboration is reshaping customer experience and enterprise workflows. - [Thoughts on AI Education](https://vikasgoel.com/blog/thoughts-on-ai-education/): On AI education, India's role, and what the next generation of AI engineers needs. - [All blog posts](https://vikasgoel.com/blog/): Long-form writing on AI Agent Architecture, Voice AI, engineering leadership, and the engineering reality of production AI. ## Identity and current work - [Now](https://vikasgoel.com/now/): What Vikas Goel is currently focused on this month (updated periodically following the /now page convention). - [Media & Press](https://vikasgoel.com/media/): Press coverage including Business Insider Africa (December 2024) feature on blackNgreen's EVA AI platform, and ongoing public work. - [Speaking](https://vikasgoel.com/speaking/): Conference appearances and speaking engagements. - [Contact](https://vikasgoel.com/contact/): How to reach Vikas Goel for advisory, board, CAIO, media, speaking, or research collaboration. ## Optional - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/goelvik/): Professional profile and full network of Vikas Goel. - [GitHub](https://github.com/vikasjoel): Code repositories including the ThinkerWave research project repository. - [ThinkerWave](https://thinkerwave.ai): The independent AI research project. - [Nexiva](https://www.nexiva.ai): Enterprise SaaS for AI voice agents — where Vikas Goel is CTO. - [blackNgreen](https://blackngreen.com): Enterprise SaaS company — where Vikas Goel has been CTO since 2013. - [Site search](https://vikasgoel.com/search/): Search across vikasgoel.com content. - [Sitemap](https://vikasgoel.com/sitemap.xml): Full sitemap.