Amara leads the gateway and routing team at WebParam. She spent a decade building inference infrastructure at scale before turning her attention to the multi-provider problem: how to make switching models a configuration value rather than an integration project.
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Amara Okafor, Head of Platform Amara OkaforHead of Platform Lucas Meyer, Staff Engineer, Routing Lucas MeyerStaff Engineer, Routing Lucas works on failover, load-shaping and cost-aware routing across the provider fleet. He writes about the parts of running an AI gateway that only show up in production: the tail latencies, the mid-stream failures, the bills nobody forecast.
LinkedInPriya Nair, Model Evaluation Lead Priya NairModel Evaluation Lead Priya runs the evaluation practice at WebParam, comparing models the way customers actually use them rather than the way leaderboards score them. She has a particular interest in the Chinese open-weights ecosystem and why it keeps being underestimated.
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