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Nikhil
Deshpande
Engineering Manager
Stripe
Nikhil is an Engineering Manager at Stripe, where he leads engineering teams building scalable technology platforms and products. With more than 16 years of experience, he has led global, cross-functional engineering and programme teams across strategy, execution, operations, and telemetry, delivering technology solutions at enterprise scale. His expertise spans product development, distributed systems, and engineering leadership, with a proven track record of taking products from early ideation through to large-scale deployment. Passionate about building high-performing teams, Nikhil is a people-focused leader who champions mentorship, inclusive leadership, and engineering excellence while driving innovation and measurable business impact.
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15 September 2026 16:30 - 17:00
Panel | Designing for failure: How engineers build trust into agentic systems
Agent systems do not fail gracefully by default. When memory breaks, tools fail, context disappears, or models behave unpredictably, trust in the entire system quickly collapses. As autonomous workflows become more deeply embedded into enterprise operations, engineering teams are being forced to design for failure from the start, building systems that can recover, escalate, explain decisions, and operate safely under uncertainty. This panel explores how teams are approaching reliability, guardrails, fallback mechanisms, human oversight, and evaluation strategies to build agentic systems that users can realistically trust in production.