AI Engineer | .NET Developer | Azure Solutions Architect
Building event-driven systems for retail & intelligent agents for the MCP era 🛒🚚🤖

By day, I design and implement event-driven architectures on Azure to power next-generation grocery fulfillment platforms and real-time retail fleet tracking systems using Event Grid, Service Bus, Functions, and Cosmos DB.

I’m also an active contributor to the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem—building .NET-native MCP servers and SDKs to help C# developers connect AI agents with real-world tools and data. My Linkup C# SDK is one of the first production-ready AITool for .NET, enabling seamless integration of web intelligence into agent workflows.

On the side, I write a popular blog series on Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Agent Framework, and local LLMs (LM Studio, Ollama, Foundry Local)—helping .NET developers adopt GenAI without leaving their comfort zone.

A lightweight, .NET SDK for Linkup, implementing the AITool. Enables C# developers to:

• Plug Linkup’s real-time web search, content extraction, and site crawling into any MCP-compliant agent
• Use with Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, or custom runtimes
• Get up and running quickly with strongly-typed tool registration

🔗 NuGet | GitHub

A reference implementation of a Tavily-powered MCP server in C#, demonstrating how to expose web intelligence as standardized MCP tools.

🔗 GitHub

I maintain a practical blog series showing how to run Microsoft’s Agent Framework and Semantic Kernel with local inference engines:

• Getting Started with LM Studio & Agent Framework for .NET Developers
• Getting Started with LM Studio & Semantic Kernel
• Getting Started with Ollama & Semantic Kernel
• Getting Started with Foundry Local & Semantic Kernel
• Building Blocks of Semantic Kernel
• Getting Started with Semantic Kernel (Part 1 & 2)

These guides help .NET teams build private, offline-capable AI agents using open-source LLMs and Microsoft’s latest frameworks.

• Cloud & Architecture: Azure (APIM, Event Grid, Service Bus, Functions, App Services, Cosmos DB), Event-Driven Design, Microservices
• Languages: C#
• AI/ML: Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Agent Framework, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Local LLMs (Llama, Mistral, Phi)
• Local LLM Tools: LM Studio (with /v1 OpenAI-compatible API), Ollama, Foundry Local
• DevOps: GitHub Actions, Docker, Bicep

If my blog posts, NuGet packages, or open-source MCP tools have helped you, consider supporting my work! Every coffee fuels more tutorials and .NET-first AI tooling.

I’m always open to:

• Collaborating on MCP server implementations or agent tooling

• Discussing event-driven system design in Azure retail/logistics contexts

• Helping .NET teams adopt Semantic Kernel or Agent Framework with local/remote LLMs

• 💬 Ask me about: MCP in C#, Linkup SDK, Azure eventing, grocery fulfillment tech, or running LM Studio as an OpenAI-compatible server

• 📫 Reach me: LinkedIn | Blog

⭐️ From Ankit Sarkar