Swaroop Chitlur
Staff Engineer / Engineering Manager Machine Learning Platform @DoorDash
Swaroop Chitlur leads the Generative AI Platform at DoorDash, building infrastructure for LLM inference, fine-tuning, RAG, evals, and AI Agents. He is an engineering leader with 20+ years of experience, including co-founding a hardware startup and being the first backend engineer at Automatic Labs (YC S11, acquired by Sirius XM). Swaroop holds a granted patent and has authored two books -- "A Byte of Python" (10M+ downloads, translated into 10+ languages) and "A Byte of Vim".
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Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash
When we started adopting LLMs across DoorDash, every team was implementing the same infrastructure: retry logic, fallback mechanisms, cost tracking, prompt versioning, and batch processing pipelines. Engineering time was wasted on repetitive plumbing work instead of building features.
