Chat Engine

The Chat Engine functional team owns the core engine powering Duo Chat across all surfaces, including the AI backend, tool integrations, and the chat platform capabilities.

Overview

The Chat Engine functional team is part of the Duo Chat group within the AI Clients stage.

For shared planning processes, workflow boards, useful links, and dashboards, see the Duo Chat group page.

👨‍💻 Team Members

Name	Role
Donald Cook	Engineering Manager, AI-Powered: Editor Extensions, VS Code
Eva Kadlecová	Backend Engineer, AI-powered:Duo Chat
Kaveh Nejad	Backend Engineer
John Slaughter	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions

🤝 Stable Counterparts

Below are our stable counterparts:

Name	Role
Dasha Adushkina	Senior Product Manager
Nick Leonard	Staff Product Designer, Plan:Project Management

💬 Slack

Duo Chat lounge: #duo-chat-lounge
General Duo Chat questions: #g_duo_chat
Public stage channel: #s_ai-clients-questions — questions and outreach
Internal stage channel: #s_ai-clients — team syncs only

💻 Scope

The Chat Engine team is responsible for the core engine that powers Duo Chat across all surfaces:

AI backend and LLM integration for Duo Chat
Tool integrations and slash commands
Chat platform capabilities and APIs used by all host systems
Technical strategy for reliability, scalability, and observability

For the full technical strategy, see the Duo Chat Technical Strategy.

🔗 Useful Links

Last modified August 6, 2026: restructure: AI Clients handbook pages to match new org shape (92e1b4d8)

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