About

I'm Dipankar Sarkar, an engineer and builder based in the UK. I've spent the last two decades shipping software across India, Europe, and the US — from scrappy startups to enterprise systems that handle real money.

Before the current AI wave, I co-founded Kwippy (India's early attempt at a Twitter-like platform), wrote the Nginx Cookbook (one of the first), and contributed to Kubernetes and cAdvisor when container orchestration was still finding its footing.

These days I run Neul Labs, building high-performance AI agent infrastructure — Rust-accelerated drop-in components for the messy, real-world kind of agent stack where latency matters and hallucinations cost money.

This site has been around since 2007. It's where I write about whatever I'm thinking about: AI, DevOps, self-hosting, startup stories, and the occasional random exploration that doesn't fit anywhere else.

Things I work with

• AI/ML: LLMs, RAG systems, AI agents, prompt engineering
• Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ARM servers
• Languages: Python, Go, TypeScript
• Self-hosting: CapRover, home lab experiments

Find me elsewhere

• LinkedIn
• GitHub (Rust CLIs)
• GitHub (research)
• Twitter / X
• ORCID

My other sites

This blog is the longest-running of five sites I maintain. Each one focuses on a different facet of my work:

• dipankar.name — engineering leadership, AI/ML systems, Rust open source (canonical hub).
• dipankar.org — startup advisory, angel investing, venture case studies.
• dipankar.cc — research, federated learning, blockchain protocols, patents.
• dipankar.co — fractional CTO and consulting case studies.