Amit Navindgi

Zoox

Amit Navindgi is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and AI lead at Zoox, where he founded and leads Zoox Intelligence, a company-wide initiative applying Large Language Models across engineering, operations, customer support, autonomy, and employee productivity. His work combines platform engineering with organizational AI adoption. He architects internal AI platforms, agents, and developer productivity workflows, while also leading AI tool evaluation, rollout strategy, enablement, spend management, and productivity measurement across Zoox. Amit also runs the Zoox Hackathon and The Assembly, a cross-functional forum for knowledge sharing and innovation. Earlier in his career, he built web applications and distributed systems at Veritas Technologies and worked on Natural Language Processing at Xerox Research Centre Europe.

Sessions (1)

From Self-Driving Monorepo to Self-Driving Cars

3:20 PM·Track 2 · Room 2006

AI coding agents promise massive productivity gains, but realizing that promise at scale requires more than just tools. In this talk, I’ll share how we approach AI adoption at Zoox, including: - Designing a monorepo-friendly ecosystem of agents, tools, and workflows - Driving adoption through enablement, hackathons, and internal platforms - Defining and tracking meaningful productivity metrics beyond hype - Managing token spend and aligning it with business outcomes - Structuring Skills, CLIs, MCPs, and Plugins to scale across teams The goal is simple: turn AI from an experiment into a reliable, measurable, and scalable engineering capability.

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