About
I'm Dipankar Sarkar, a Principal AI Architect based in the UK. I've spent the last two decades building 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 work on AI agent systems for financial services — the messy, real-world kind where hallucinations cost money and latency matters.
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