[2] His current endeavor, Vianai, is a startup based in San Francisco that provides software services in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

[5] Sikka was born in Shajapur, Madhya Pradesh, India to Punjabi parents - an officer in the Indian Railways and a teacher.

iBrain was acquired by PatternRX, Inc. His second startup, Bodha.com, focused on developing technology for non-invasive, service-based integration of enterprise applications and information.

[10][11] Sikka joined SAP in 2002 to head up the advanced technology group responsible for strategic innovative projects.

[citation needed] In April 2007, Sikka was named SAP's first-ever[12] CTO,[13] reporting to then CEO Henning Kagermann.

[17][18] On 12 June 2014, Infosys Ltd, India's second-largest IT services exporter, named Sikka as its chief executive officer and managing director.

In 2019, Sikka founded Vianai, an AI company, with $50 million in initial funding[23] and advisors that included Indra Nooyi, John Etchemendy, Divesh Makan, Sebastian Thrun, and Alan Kay.

[24][25] During a platform demo on September 17, 2019, Sikka said that Vianai had created its own programming language to enable more developers and companies to utilize AI and Machine Learning techniques.

[citation needed] Sikka served as a member of the advisory board for Coghead from 2006 to 2009 along with Steve Bourne, Guy Kawasaki and John Seely Brown.