Sunil Mathew
Engineering leader, agentic-AI practitioner and founder of The Living Craft.
26 years of engineering experience, including past roles at Google, Amazon and Walmart Labs. Today, Sunil builds agentic-AI products and advises organisations. Through The Living Craft, he also offers live Agentic AI programmes and separate one-to-one career preparation for experienced technical professionals.
“I am an active learner. I am happiest when I am learning something new, and teaching is how I share that.” — Sunil Mathew
Experience across building, leading and assessing
| Organisation | Past role |
|---|---|
| Engineering Leader | |
| Amazon | Senior Software Development Manager |
| Walmart Labs | Director of Engineering |
For the last 15 years Sunil has led teams. In that time he hired, developed and assessed senior engineers, architects, engineering managers and engineering leaders. That work connects two sides of professional development: doing consequential technical work and explaining the decisions behind it.
“I saw a clear pattern. The people who did well, and who were most respected, had real depth in complex, large-scale systems. … The agentic era makes that depth more valuable, not less.” — Sunil Mathew, on 15 years of leading and hiring
Current work in agentic AI
Sunil's work includes agentic-AI product development, multi-agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation and the operating practices around language-model systems.
He also works with organisations through fractional AI leadership, readiness assessments and bounded advisory. Teaching is part of that practice: examining a system, discussing what the evidence shows and deciding what to improve.
What that means for your learning
In the Agentic Systems programmes, you work on software you can inspect. The conversation returns to the architecture: why an agent is appropriate, what it may do, how it will be evaluated and what happens when an assumption fails.
You practise building, explaining and revising those decisions through feedback.
What that means for your career preparation
An experienced candidate brings years of decisions, projects and leadership situations. Interview preparation helps make that work understandable to someone meeting them for the first time.
Sunil's hiring and assessment background informs one-to-one discussions about how you frame a problem, explain trade-offs and show your contribution. Career guidance can also help you identify the gaps between your current experience and the responsibilities you want next.
Working with your organisation
For a team learning need, scope a practical development programme. For business decisions, choose an assessment, a bounded review or ongoing fractional AI leadership according to the responsibility involved.
See how Sunil approaches a design question
The published engineering resources work through permissions, uncertain evidence, evaluation, memory and cost. Use them to examine the reasoning before deciding how you want to work together.
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