Software engineer, Genentech.
Why their word counts: Builds and runs Genentech's background agents for genomics and cloud operations, the work his talk describes.
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we complete about 189 tickets for this sprint, which is about four times as much or two to three times more than what we usually accomplish
Xiucheng QuekSoftware engineer · Practitioner, 
Genentech
Talk: Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops, YouTube video of a talk or interview (Xiucheng Quek, software engineer (Genentech)), May 7, 2026.
if you look at the 180 tickets the bot completed about 122 tickets
Xiucheng QuekSoftware engineer · Practitioner, Genentech
Talk: Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops, YouTube video of a talk or interview (Xiucheng Quek, software engineer (Genentech)), May 7, 2026.
we are allowing the bot to merge that directly into our main branch because we have integration tests, unit tests, etc., canary tests.
Xiucheng QuekSoftware engineer · Practitioner, Genentech
Talk: Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops, YouTube video of a talk or interview (speaker in notes), May 7, 2026.
We are now generating operation logs uh uh or daily summary of the platform
Xiucheng QuekSoftware engineer · Practitioner, Genentech
Talk: Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops, YouTube video of a talk or interview (speaker in notes), May 7, 2026.
simply asking Ona or the bot on my research failed, can you my analysis failed, can you tell me why? And it will just go through the entire troubleshooting process.
Xiucheng QuekSoftware engineer · Practitioner, Genentech
Talk: Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops, YouTube video of a talk or interview (speaker in notes), May 7, 2026.