I build systems that scale
and teams that ship.
Engineering leader who writes code, ships products, and grows teams. 18+ years building at Nykaa, Hike, Orangewood, SlideShare, and more.
Dipankar Sarkar is a hands-on engineering leader with 18+ years building production systems on platforms that serve hundreds of millions of users. He founded Neul Labs, writes about AI agent infrastructure, and still ships code daily.
What I Do
Three pillars of expertise, honed over 18+ years of building at scale.
Systems Architecture
Designing and building production systems that serve hundreds of millions of users with 99.99% uptime.
Explore →AI & Agent Engineering
Production AI systems, agent safety patterns, and governance frameworks for regulated industries.
Explore →Team Building & Leadership
Scaling high-performing engineering teams from startup to enterprise. Culture, hiring, and outcomes.
Explore →Latest Writings
Thoughts on systems, AI, and building teams.
AI Agent Safety Governance: An Engineer's Playbook
The practical playbook for AI agent safety governance. Threat model, runtime policy, prompt injection defense, audit, red-team, and the tooling matrix.
AI Architect in Financial Services: Lessons from Production
What I learned as Principal AI Architect at a UK fintech. Building production agent systems for financial services, the frameworks, and the lessons.
AI Governance for Financial Services: The 4-Tier NIST AI RMF
How to implement the 4-tier NIST AI RMF Agentic Profile for financial services. The framework I developed at Neul Labs for compliance-first AI agents.
Open Source
Tools, research, and infrastructure I build in the open.
Chain of Thought reasoning API with RL techniques
GDELT Project CLI — built for agents, optimized for automation
Your Guide to AI-Driven Business Transformation
Google Sheets CLI with local DuckDB caching and MCP server
Batteries included for iced (Rust GUI toolkit)
Your AI Agent's Gateway to HubSpot CRM
Built at & shipped with
Let's build something together
I take on hands-on engineering leadership roles, technical partnerships, and deep-dive collaborations where I can write code, shape architecture, and help teams deliver real outcomes.
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