{
  "id": 11669328,
  "title": "Presentation: Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/03/presentation-building-genai-platform-at-doordash",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-03T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "InfoQ",
    "slug": "infoq",
    "url": "https://www.infoq.com/presentations/doordash-genai-platform-architecture/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "InfoQ Presents: Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash\nSwaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani detail DoorDash's journey in creating an internal GenAI platform, focusing on architectural decisions, transitioning to open-weights models, handling LLM and agent gateways, and balancing accuracy, latency, and cost for 5,000+ internal users. Sidd Kodwani, a Software Engineer on the GenAI Platform team, discusses infrastructure for AI agents, while Swaroop Chitlur leads the Generative AI Platform, overseeing LLM inference, fine-tuning, evaluations, and AI agents. The presentation, part of QCon AI, emphasizes principles like being customer-obsessed, focusing on end-to-end workflows, and providing business value through accuracy, latency, and cost optimization.",
  "summary": "Swaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani share DoorDash’s journey building an internal GenAI platform. They discuss core architectural bets, transitioning from vendor-first setups to open-weights models, navigating LLM and agent gateways, and balancing accuracy, latency, and cost for over 5,000 internal users. By Siddharth Kodwani, Swaroop Chitlur",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}