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Uber’s On-Call Copilot with Paarth Chothani and Eduards Sidorovics

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Software Engineering Daily

Technology, News, Tech News

4.2653 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

At Uber, there are many platform teams supporting engineers across the company, and maintaining robust on-call operations is crucial to keeping services functioning smoothly. The prospect of enhancing the efficiency of these engineering teams motivated Uber to create Genie, which is an AI-powered on-call copilot. Genie assists with on-call management by providing real-time responses to

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0:00.0

At Uber, there are many platform teams supporting engineers across the company, and maintaining

0:05.1

robust on-call operations is crucial to keeping services functioning smoothly.

0:10.3

The prospect of enhancing the efficiency of these engineering teams motivated Uber to create

0:15.0

Jeannie, which is an AI-powered on-call co-pilot.

0:18.5

Genie assists with on-call management by providing real-time responses to queries,

0:23.0

streamlining incident resolution, and facilitating team collaboration.

0:27.2

Parth Trothani is a staff software engineer on the Uber AI Gen AI team.

0:32.9

Edward Cedarovich is a senior software engineer on the Uber AI platform team.

0:38.2

In this episode, they joined the show with Sean Falconer to talk about the challenges that

0:42.1

motivated the creation of Uber Genie, the architecture of Jeannie, and more.

0:47.2

This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer.

0:49.9

Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to find him.

1:05.8

Music Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to find him. Pirith and Edwards, welcome the show.

1:08.1

Thank you, Sean, for having us.

1:10.0

Thank you.

1:10.8

Yeah, thanks for being here. You know, I'm really excited to talk about. Thank you, Sean, for having us. Thank you. Hi.

1:11.4

Yeah, thanks for being here.

1:12.4

I'm really excited to talk about, you know,

1:15.2

Jeannie, this on-call co-pilot that you guys were involved in at Uber.

1:19.8

But maybe before we get there, let's have you introduce yourselves just so,

1:22.8

since there's both of you, people can, you know, hopefully learn your voices.

1:25.9

But let's start with you, Paris.

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