Staff Plus Engineering

Session Machine Learning

SafeChat: Building AI-Powered Safety Systems at Scale in a Real-Time Marketplace

Monday Jun 1 / 10:20AM EDT

Trust and safety challenges become exponentially harder at marketplace scale, especially when interactions happen in real time.

Speaker image - Bruna Pereira

Bruna Pereira

Software Engineer @DoorDash, 10+ Years in Software Engineering

Session Architecture

Adaptive Recommenders in the Real World: Inference, Evals, and System Design

Tuesday Jun 2 / 01:20PM EDT

Modern personalization systems are shifting from hand-tuned heuristics to AI-native architectures, but building an adaptive recommendation engine in production—one that continuously learns, evolves, and delivers measurable business value—requires far more than deploying a model.

Speaker image - Mallika Rao

Mallika Rao

Senior Engineering Manager @Zocdoc, Previously @Netflix, @Twitter and @Walmart