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 |
 Alexander Chueshev
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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI-powered:AI Framework |
 Alejandro Rodríguez
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Senior Backend Engineer, AI Powered:AI Framework |
 Fabrizio J. Piva
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Machine Learning Engineer, AI-powered:AI Framework |
 Hongtao Yang
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI-powered:AI Framework |
 Kalyani Gadgil (KG)
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Backend Engineer, AI Powered:AI Framework |
 Mark Lapierre
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Machine Learning Engineer, AI-powered:AI Framework |
 Nathan Weinshenker
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Backend Engineer, AI Powered:AI Framework |
 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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