Speaker: Amit Navindgi
Staff Software Engineer @Zoox
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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Session
Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents
Early AI integrations often start small: wrap an inference API, add a prompt, ship a feature. At Zoox, that approach grew into Cortex, a production AI gateway supporting multiple model providers, multiple modalities, and agentic workflows with dozens of tools, serving over 100 internal clients.
