Anantha Kancherla — Building Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles

As Lyft’s VP of Engineering, Software at Level 5, Autonomous Vehicle Program, Anantha Kancherla has a birds-eye view on what it takes to make self-driving cars work in the real world. He previously worked on Windows at Microsoft focusing on DirectX, Graphics and UI; Facebook’s mobile Newsfeed and core mobile experiences; and led the Collaboration efforts at Dropbox involving launching Dropbox Paper as well as improving core collaboration functionality in Dropbox.He and Lukas dive into the challenges of working on large projects and how to approach breaking down a major project into pieces, tracking progress and addressing bugs.Check out Lyft’s Self-Driving Website:https://self-driving.lyft.com/And this article on building the self-driving team at Lyft:https://medium.com/lyftlevel5/going-from-zero-to-sixty-building-lyfts-self-driving-software-team-1ac693800588Follow Lyft Level 5 on Twitter:https://twitter.com/LyftLevel5Topics covered:0:00 Sharp Knives0:44 Introduction1:07 Breaking down a big goal8:15 Breaking down Metrics10:50 Allocating Resources12:40 Interventions13:27 What part still has lots ofroom for improvement?14:25 Various ways of deploying models15:30 Rideshare15:57 Infrastructure, updates17:28 Model versioning19:16 Model improvement goals22:42 Unit testing25:12 Interactions of models26:30 Improvements in data vs models29:50 finding the right data30:38 Deploying models into production32:17 Feature drift34:20 When to file bug tickets37:25 Processes and growth40:56 Underrated aspect 42:34 Biggest challenges Visit our podcasts homepage for transcripts and more episodes!www.wandb.com/podcast🔊 Get our podcast on Apple and Spotify!Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/2WdrUvISpotify: https://bit.ly/2SqtadF