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Short bio

Approved short bio — last reviewed 7 October 2026

Dipankar Sarkar is a hands-on AI and engineering leader with 18+ years building production software, distributed systems, AI/ML products and companies. Most recently Principal AI Architect at Aveni (May 2025 – March 2026), he architected the internal AI platform supporting enterprise banking deployments and built Agent Assure. Earlier he was Head of AI & Platform at Orangewood Labs, where he built RobotGPT, and AI & ML Lead at Hike, leading ML systems serving more than 100M users. He has founded six companies, including Neul Labs, his operating role since April 2026, and has 90+ provisional patent filings. He studied at IIT Delhi and Arizona State University, and is based in St Andrews, Scotland.

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Verified career summary

Most recent first. Nykaa was a consulting engagement that overlapped with my operating role at Hike from September 2019. Neul Labs has been my operating role since April 2026; earlier public Neul Labs repositories were open-source R&D.

April 2026 - present

Founder & Principal Consultant at Neul Labs Limited

Founder-led consulting in production AI and financial controls.

May 2025 - March 2026

Principal AI Architect at Aveni

Architected the internal AI platform supporting enterprise banking deployments. Built Agent Assure and the evaluation, versioning and release controls around it.

December 2023 - October 2024

AI Lead at Manufactured

Global supply-chain technology. Led AI engineering for document intelligence, lead management and workflow automation.

October 2022 - September 2023

Head of AI & Platform at Orangewood Labs

Collaborative robotics and edge AI. Built RobotGPT (approximately 10x faster robot programming), led ML, backend, edge and product engineers, and filed 30+ provisional patents.

December 2021 - September 2022

Co-founder at Cryptuon Research (Boom Protocol)

Multi-chain API and MPC wallet platform. Secured more than $2.5M in investor commitments and commercial letters of intent.

September 2019 - November 2021

AI & ML Lead at Hike

Operating AI/ML leadership role. Computer vision, NLP, recommendation, personalisation and trust-and-safety systems serving more than 100M users. 60+ provisional patent filings.

2017 - 2021 (consulting)

Principal Engineering Consultant at Nykaa

Consulting engagement. Architected social-commerce and AdTech products associated with approximately $10M in business value; guided 15+ engineers through architecture, delivery and platform migration.

2008 - 2019

Earlier engineering and founder roles

SlideShare, Tradus/Ibibo, Jaja.tv, Octo.ai and ExpressMOJO, as principal architect, engineering leader and founder.

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Education

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering IIT Delhi, 2003 – 2007
M.S. Computer Science (Cybersecurity) Arizona State University, 2020 – 2022

Books

AI for Everyday Automation: 7 AI Workflows to Save Hours at Work Every Week Published, Packt, June 2026
Nginx Web Server Implementation Cookbook Published, Packt, 2011
Professional AI Coding: Building Correct Software Faster with AI Tools Forthcoming
Mastering OpenClaw Forthcoming

Mandate preferences

+Substantial interim technology leadership and operating-partner mandates come first.
+Permanent roles are considered by exception, where the mandate and remote-first terms fit.
+Remote-first from St Andrews, Scotland, working UK and European hours. Planned on-site workshops are fine; recurring weekly travel is discussed case by case.
+Mandates where the role keeps real technical authority: AI architecture, release decisions and team formation.

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Last reviewed 2026-10-07.