AI Coding Group

The AI Coding Group is part of the AI Engineering organization focused on user-facing AI-powered coding features.

Team Overview

The AI Coding Group develops AI-powered features that help developers write, understand, and improve code. We focus on creating intelligent tools that enhance the developer experience across GitLab.

Our Projects

The AI Coding team owns and is actively working on the following projects:

Code Suggestions - AI-generated code completion and generation within IDEs.
Duo Code Review - AI-powered code review assistance and insights.
Code-related Slash Commands - Interactive Duo Chat commands including /explain, /refactor, /tests, and /fix.
AI Assisted Service - Core AI infrastructure and services supporting our features.

Evaluation and Testing

AI Coding is responsible for evaluations across all our features, which includes:

Creating datasets in LangSmith and registering them in the Datasets repository. We also have some Code Creation Datasets.
Creating evaluators in Centralized Evaluation Framework
Running evaluations

Team Handles

Use this information to connect with the Code Creation group:

Category	Handle
GitLab Team Handle	@gitlab-org/code-creation/engineers
Slack Channel	#g_code_creation
Slack Handle (Engineers)	@code-creation-engs

Team Members

The following people are permanent members of the AI Coding Team:

Name	Role
Matt Nohr	Backend Engineering Manager, Code Creation
Allen Cook	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation
James Fargher	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Kinshuk Singh	Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Michael Usachenko	Senior Machine Learning Engine, Code Creation
Omar Qunsul	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Pam Artiaga	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Dhruv Rathi	Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Code Creation
Shola Quadri	Associate Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Tian Gao	Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Vitali Tatarintev	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Wanderson Policarpo	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation