AI Core Infra:Duo Service Infra
The Duo Service Infra functional team within AI Core Infra, focused on reliability improvements and observability for AI Gateway and Duo Workflow Service.
AI Core Infra Group
The AI Core Infra group is focused on how to support other product groups at GitLab with the AI Abstraction Layer, and GitLab AI feature development.
Overview
The AI Core Infra group owns infrastructure, reliability improvements in Duo Workflow Service and AI gateway, model evaluation tooling that every AI feature depends on as well as semantic code search.
Team Members
The following team members are permanent members of the AI Core Infra Group:
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
 Martin Wortschack
|
Engineering Manager, AI Framework |
 Alejandro Rodríguez
|
Senior Backend Engineer, AI Powered:AI Framework |
 Arturo Herrero
|
Staff Backend Engineer, Global Search |
 Cindy Halim
|
Fullstack Engineer |
 Fabrizio J. Piva
|
Machine Learning Engineer, AI-powered:AI Framework |
 Halil Coban
|
Senior Backend Engineer, AI-powered:Duo Workflow |
 Hongtao Yang
|
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI-powered:AI Framework |
 Patrick Cyiza
|
Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code |
 Kalyani Gadgil (KG)
|
Backend Engineer, AI Powered:AI Framework |
 Manoj Memana Jayakumar
|
Staff Backend Engineer, AI-Powered:Custom Models |
 Mark Lapierre
|
Machine Learning Engineer, AI-powered:AI Framework |
 Mohamed Hamda
|
Backend Engineer, AI-Powered:Custom Models |
 Nathan Weinshenker
|
Backend Engineer, AI Powered:AI Framework |
 Newvick Lee
|
Backend Engineer, AI-Powered:Custom Models |
 Pam Artiaga
|
Senior Backend Engineer, AI Coding |
 Tan Le
|
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI-powered:AI Framework |
Stable Counterparts
The following members of other functional teams are our stable counterparts:
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Ashraf Khamis | Senior Technical Writer |
Functional Teams
- Duo Service Infra - Self-hosted AIGW as well as observability and reliability improvements for AI Gateway and Duo Workflow Service
- Model Evaluation Infra - CEF framework designed to provide a centralized solution for evaluating AI features at GitLab
- Semantic Code Search - GitLab’s RAG implementation for providing semantic understanding of code repositories
How we work
Please visit the How We Work page for the details on working processes, meetings, and the rest.
AI Core Infra:Model Evaluation Infra
The Model Evaluation Infra functional team within AI Core Infra, focused on maintaining the Centralized Evaluation Framework for evaluating AI features at GitLab.
AI Core Infra:Semantic Code Search
The Semantic Code Search functional team within AI Core Infra, focused on GitLab's RAG implementation for providing semantic understanding of code repositories.
AI Model Validation at GitLab
How we monitor the market for models to evaluate and respond to on-demand requests for new model evaluation.
How We Work
How we work, communicate, and run things day-to-day in AI Core Infra
Last modified July 1, 2026: Update AI Core Infra with functional teams (
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