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Uday Kiran Medisetty

Distinguished Engineer, Uber.

Leads Uber initiatives for engineering productivity (agentic coding, AI debugging, code reviews, large-scale refactoring) and co-leads the company-wide engineering community.

Why their word counts: Runs the engineering-productivity work Medisetty reports on and gave the AI Engineer World's Fair talk; an insider with an interest in presenting the program well.

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

In their words

Over the last year, all of the investments we made in agentic AI have led to more than seventy percent of our PRs now either by local or cloud agents.

Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, Uber

Talk: Agentic SDLC at Uber: Building Blocks for Uber's Software Factory (talk, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026), AI Engineer (conference organizer) YouTube channel, August 21, 2026.

  • 70% agent pr share, as of the talk (published 2026-08-21). Level not stated

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

a growing share of sessions aren’t initiated by humans, but by automated managed agents handling code review, self-healing CI failures, completing E2E PRs with visual validation, triaging on-call alerts, debugging incoming bugs, and handling a variety of code maintenance tasks with human reviews/escalations.

Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, Uber

Post: Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale, Uber engineering blog, August 27, 2026.

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

if this is an autonomous diff coming from Minion, we want to give a human reviewer some confidence that this diff has gone through a lot of self-improvement already

Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, Uber

Talk: Agentic SDLC at Uber: Building Blocks for Uber's Software Factory (talk, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026), AI Engineer (conference organizer) YouTube channel, August 21, 2026.

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