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Nachiket Paranjape

DoorDash · 2026

Nachiket Paranjape builds AI evaluation infrastructure at DoorDash. At AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026, he represented its AI Platform team as a software engineer leading the AI Evals initiative. His work makes quality assessment accessible to product managers and operations teams through shared datasets, annotation tools and calibrated automated judges.

Earlier at DoorDash, he led the ML Workbench initiative, bringing design and machine-learning infrastructure together to improve the model-development workflow. With Swaroop Chitlur Haridas, he advocates evaluation systems in which domain experts can define quality and improve agents directly.

1 conference talk

AI Engineer World's Fair 202616:11

AI Evals for Cross-Functional Teams — Nachiket Paranjape & Swaroop Chitlur Haridas, DoorDash

Nachiket Paranjape and Swaroop Chitlur Haridas describe how DoorDash's GenAI evaluations became a shared responsibility across engineering, product, strategy and operations. Their platform combines stable APIs, operator-built annotation interfaces, golden datasets and self-service judge calibration. They report lower annotation costs and faster iteration,…

Nachiket Paranjape · Swaroop Chitlur Haridas

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