Dipankar Sarkar

Experience

Principal AI Architect 2025 - 2026 (10 months)

• Architected the internal platform powering Aveni’s product suite for enterprise
banking clients (LBG), working across CRM integrations, middleware, and mul-
tiple... more

manufactured

AI Lead 2023 - 2024 (10 months)

• Led engineering for supply chain technology — ML-driven lead management and
document processing pipelines
• Architected data extraction, classification, and routing... more

Orangewood Labs

Head of AI & Platform 2022 - 2023 (11 months)

• Built RobotGPT — LLM-powered voice/text interface for collaborative robot
task planning (10× faster programming)
• Architected Edge ML platform for cloud-to-edge model... more

Boom Labs

Founder 2021 - 2022 (9 months)

Fueled by bold vision and tenacity, our team embarked on a quest to revolutionise marketing by tapping into the uncharted territories of Web3 technologies.

* We rolled... more

Hike

ML Lead 2019 - 2021 (about 2 years)

As a leader at Hike, one of the fastest-growing social startups that quickly achieved unicorn status, I played a crucial role in its evolution to meet the needs of future... more

Nykaa.com

Principal Engineer 2017 - 2021 (almost 5 years)

As a hands-on technical leader at Nykaa, an Indian lifestyle e-commerce unicorn scaling towards global impact, I leveraged my deep understanding of tech infrastructure and... more

Octo.ai

Co-founder 2013 - 2016 (about 3 years)

I was the co-founder and technology architect of Aurora, a start-up committed to delivering innovative solutions in the tech space. Our most acclaimed product, Octo.ai, is... more

Goibibo (Ibibo Group Pvt Ltd)

Senior Engineering Manager 2012 (10 months)

As a team leader at Tradus, I managed a team of 15 talented engineers dedicated to driving innovation in e-commerce technology. Under my leadership, we achieved a significant... more

Kwippy

Co-founder 2008 - 2010 (over 2 years)

Kwippy emerged as a unique alternative to traditional microblogging platforms like Twitter, integrating with Instant Messaging to provide a nano-blogging experience that did... more

Exit

Slideshare

Software engineer 2007 - 2008 (about 1 year)

At SlideShare, I joined as an early engineer, where I took on multifaceted roles and quickly became a high-performing contributor to the team.

My responsibilities spanned... more

Employee

Slideshare, Kwippy, Goibibo (Ibibo Group Pvt Ltd), Octo.ai, Nykaa.com, Hike, Boom Labs, Orangewood Labs, manufactured, Aveni

Education

About

Achievements

I'm a hands-on engineering leader and AI builder. I've spent 15+ years writing code, shipping products, and growing teams behind platforms that serve hundreds of millions of users — Hike, Kirusa, Nykaa among them.

Today I run Neul Labs, where I build Rust-accelerated drop-in components for AI agent stacks (`fast-litellm`, `fast-langgraph`). Before that I was Principal AI Architect at Aveni(financial-services AI agents), AI Engineering Lead at Manufactured (supply-chain AI on GPT‑4), and Head of AI & Platform at Orangewood Labs (RoboGPT, AutoInspect, EdgeML for industrial robotics).

I still write code daily — currently in Rust and Python — and I think the best engineering leaders stay close to the work. My open-source projects, patent filings, and production systems all reflect a single philosophy: build it, ship it, measure the outcome.

Education: B.Tech CS, IIT Delhi · M.S. CS, Arizona State University.
Recognition: 60+ patent applications filed

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Cloud Computing Startups Product Internet DevOps Patents / IP Machine Learning Blockchain SaaS Data Warehouse Python SvelteJS React.js Flutter Android iOS Development Go (Golang) Rust Solidity Ecommerce Data Analysis Cybersecurity TensorFlow PyTorch Kafka MySQL PostgreSQL AWS/EC2/ELB/S3/DynamoDB

Locations

United Kingdom United States Europe

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Principles - Ray Dalio

What's your favorite non-business book?

Principles - Ray Dalio

Dipankar Sarkar

Founder of Neul Labs (high-performance AI agent infrastructure). 15+ years building production systems on platforms that serve 250M+ users (Hike, Kirusa, Nykaa)