Kevin Lei
Engineering @ Instacart
- Role
- Senior Engineering Manager at Instacart
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Senior Engineering Manager
Jan 2023 — Present
August 2025 - Present (AI/ML Platform & Service Platform)I lead two teams across our Machine Learning / AI platform and our Service platform (20 ICs).Dec 2024 - Aug 2025 -(AI Productivity & Infra)We build product surfaces which impact meetings, code understanding/generation/reviews, and an AI governance platform. Our team also manages organizational AI spend, procure high-impact AI tools, and educate our internal teams.(Team of 12 ICs)June 2023 - Dec 2024 (Ava Team)We significantly increased AI literacy and adoption with Ava (nearly every employee), an internally built AI assistant that enables employees to access flagship models across various products. Ava is available in your browser (Chrome Extension), available on Web, in Slack and joins your meetings.(Team of 5-6 2023 - June 2023 (Developer Console)We built Cora (similar to Backstage) to unify our ML platform frontend with our Builds and Deploys. Cora is now serving 20+ internal apps, including our data, experimentation, AI Infra platform. Our team also produced core services and data sets around code productivity and service ownership.(Team of 5 ICs)
Education
Cornell University
B.Sc. Computer Science
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