Abstract
Over the past year, Zoox has invested in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into the entire developer lifecycle through a companywide initiative called Zoox Intelligence (ZI). This session covers how the team approached this transformation by mapping the real developer journey, building a flexible AI platform, and delivering applications across information discovery, personal productivity, software development, and customer support.
The talk explains how the platform was designed, how models were selected, and how it supports every part of the developer lifecycle. This includes faster information discovery, smoother onboarding, improved personal productivity, better code creation and review, and stronger customer support. It also highlights platform capabilities such as Tools and the Agents as API pattern, which allows teams to run custom agents with simple APIs rather than full deployments. These same foundations also power workflows unique to autonomous vehicle development, such as triaging events from the autonomy fleet and preparing for future customers.
A central focus of the session is the blueprint Zoox used to accelerate AI adoption across the company. This includes platform principles, application strategy, evangelism methods, and organizational patterns that help AI leads drive meaningful impact.
Whether an organization is early in its AI journey or scaling an internal platform, attendees will leave with a practical playbook they can bring back to their teams.
Speaker
Amit Navindgi
Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ Zoox, Leading Applied AI Initiatives
Amit Navindgi is a Staff Software Engineer at Zoox, where he leads Zoox Intelligence — an initiative applying Large Language Models (LLMs) across engineering, operations, customer support, and autonomy. He builds products and platforms that combine technical depth with thoughtful design, creating interactions that are both intuitive to use and elegant to build. His expertise spans Applied AI, Observability, Semantic Search, Experimentation Platforms, Data Engineering, Frontend Development, and Oncall and Incident Management Systems.
He also runs the Zoox AI Hackathon and The Assembly, a cross-functional forum for knowledge sharing and innovation.
Earlier in his career, he developed web applications and distributed systems at Veritas Technologies and focused on Natural Language Processing at the Xerox Research Centre Europe
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Date
Wednesday Nov 19 / 11:45AM PST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Ballroom BC
