I am a product manager at Tesco Technology in Bengaluru, where I own the national ordering engine that decides what gets ordered, in what quantity, from which supplier and to which depot. I led its move from a legacy monolith to an API-first architecture, and before that I led inventory management work for Tesco's distribution centres. Earlier I managed a B2B claims overpayment recovery platform at Optum, and I started my career as a software engineer at Ernst and Young.
Work
Below are some of my recent projects. Please request for the complete walkthrough of the locked projects.
01
Database-Connected AI Chatbot with Evals
Built a chatbot in five stages, from a plain OpenAI call to a system that remembers the conversation, calls tools and answers from a live database, then traced every answer in Langfuse and had AI judges score it.
02
Podcast Search MCP Server
Turned a semantic search engine over 1,009 product and technology podcast episodes into an MCP server, so an AI assistant can search the library, read transcripts, keep notes and run research briefs.
03
Personal AI Agent with Voice
Built an agent that searches and reads the web, remembers me between sessions, runs a job search from my resume, and answers the phone, with chat and voice sharing one memory.
04
Podcast RAG and Fine-Tuning
Built a question answering app over 149 podcast transcripts and saw why chunking matters, then fine-tuned a small open model to speak in a persona of my choosing.
Thoughts & Ideas
Notes on modernising a supply chain platform, getting inventory right, and moving from engineering to product.
From Software Engineer to Product Manager
Inventory Accuracy Comes Before Optimisation
Modernising a Platform the Business Depends On Every Day
Experience
Product management for supply chain at Tesco and healthcare payments at Optum, after starting out as a software engineer.
Every order is a forecast that someone has decided to act on.
Stack
The models, databases and tools I used to build and ship the AI products on this page, from the first chatbot to RAG and fine-tuning.
in short
Own the ordering engine behind one of the UK's largest grocery networks, across more than five hundred thousand SKUs
Sunil skipped presentations and built real AI products. Want to know how?
Sunil S Sakri was part of the August 2026 cohort at Curious PM, alongside 24 other talented participants.
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