AUTHOR PROFILE · THE PRACTICAL CTO
Ayan Sarkar
Chief Technology & AI Officer · Co‑Founder, Webskitters
Ayan Sarkar writes The Practical CTO — practical analysis of enterprise AI, technology architecture and leadership for CTOs, founders and boards. He co-founded Webskitters in 2010 and today leads its technology and AI direction, working where business ambition, architecture and artificial intelligence meet.
CO-FOUNDED
Webskitters, 2010
ROLE
Chief Technology & AI Officer
FOCUS
Enterprise AI · Architecture · Leadership
RECOGNITION
Webskitters in the Forbes India | D Globalist DGEMS Select 200 (2025)
ABOUT AYAN
Technology leadership with a business perspective.
Ayan co-founded Webskitters in 2010 alongside his brother and business partner, Atanu Sarkar, the company’s CEO. Since then his work has moved from building software to building the capability behind it — the architecture, teams and operating practices that let technology keep delivering as an organisation grows.
As Chief Technology & AI Officer, he brings technology strategy and artificial intelligence into one conversation: which capabilities a business should build, where intelligence can genuinely improve how it operates, and how leaders should guide that change. He approaches those questions through architecture, commercial context and organisational readiness.
Through The Practical CTO he shares that thinking openly — long-form analysis, decision frameworks and a LinkedIn newsletter — built on one conviction: a technology idea only matters when a team can operate it, improve it and take responsibility for it. Read the longer story ↗
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Where he spends his thinking.
Enterprise AI strategy
Moving from experimentation to governed, measurable adoption: use-case portfolios, readiness, operating models and AI governance.
Private LLMs & enterprise knowledge
LLMs, RAG, model routing and permission-aware retrieval — designed around the information need, not a preferred model.
Agentic AI for enterprise
Agents, multi-agent systems and MCP: which decisions can be delegated, and where people must stay in control.
Technology strategy & CTO advisory
Roadmaps, modernisation and technical due diligence, connected to commercial priorities and delivery capacity.
HOW HE WORKS
01
Ownership over dependency
Clear responsibilities give people room to make decisions. Leadership should strengthen judgment across the organisation, not concentrate every answer in one person.
02
Architecture over shortcuts
The quickest route today can become tomorrow’s constraint. Make the important trade-offs explicit, including the ones that preserve room to change.
03
Accountability over experimentation
Exploration needs a purpose and a responsible owner. Turn learning into decisions about what to keep, improve, stop or scale.
SPEAKING & CONVERSATIONS
AI, made practical — from the room, not the slides.
Ayan speaks about the move from AI experimentation to operating capability: enterprise AI strategy, agentic systems, private LLMs and the leadership questions they raise.
Webskitters was featured in the DGEMS Select 200 at the Forbes India | D Globalist DGEMS 2025 Entrepreneur Mobility Summit.
ARTICLES BY AYAN
Published thinking.
FOLLOW THE THINKING
The next chapter is a conversation.
New analysis on enterprise AI, architecture and leadership, every week — on the blog, on LinkedIn and in the newsletter.
