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Praveen Neppalli Naga

Chief Technology Officer, Uber.

Joined Uber in 2015; leads engineering and science strategy and technical execution; earlier seven years in engineering leadership at LinkedIn. Posts on X as Praveen Neppalli (profile: SVP & Chief Technology Officer).

Why their word counts: Leads the engineering organization whose numbers Neppalli Naga posts; an executive describing the organization's own results.

Profile from this source, checked 2026-10-19.

In their words

Our internal background coding agent went from <1% of all code changes to 8% in just a few months. There is zero human authoring. Engineers review and approve, but the code is written entirely by AI agents.

Praveen Neppalli NagaChief Technology Officer · Executive, Uber

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  • 8% agent pr share, as of 2026-03-16. A person approves

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Uber: $52 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

Today, 99% of our engineers use AI tools. More than 70% of pull requests are attributed to local or cloud agents. And our engineers have built 2,500+ agent skills across the software development lifecycle.

Praveen Neppalli NagaChief Technology Officer · Executive, Uber

Social post: X post on Praveen Neppalli's own account (Uber's CTO), X post on Praveen Neppalli's own account (Uber's CTO), July 7, 2026.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Uber: $52 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

84% of AI users are now working with agent-style workflows, not just tab completion. Claude Code usage nearly doubled in 2 months (32% → 63%), while IDE-based tools have largely plateaued.

Praveen Neppalli NagaChief Technology Officer · Executive, Uber

Social post: X post on Praveen Neppalli's own account (Uber's CTO), X post on Praveen Neppalli's own account (Uber's CTO), March 16, 2026.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Uber: $52 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page