Tej Chilukuri

Tej Chilukuri

Tej Chilukuri is a Staff Product Manager on Render's growth team, where he designs the roadmap and owns user journeys across product surfaces, from the core Render dashboard to the ergonomic CLI. His work sits at the center of how users discover, adopt, and grow within Render's platform. Before Render, Tej was a Senior Product Manager at Pinecone, working on a managed vector database, and a Growth Manager at Modern Treasury, a payments operations platform. That path, from growth-focused work at a fintech operations company to product leadership at a fast-scaling infrastructure startup, gives him a strong sense of how technical products earn adoption and retention. On the growth team, he applies that lens to shaping the journeys that help users get the most out of Render.
Building an Eval System for Agent Experience Research
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Building an Eval System for Agent Experience Research
When a developer asks Claude Code or Codex to build their app and use your product, the agent is the one reading your docs, running your CLI, and deciding what to do when a command fails. We're all iterating on our MCP and Skills to improve this experience, but it's hard to actually evaluate this.We built a tool that runs these agents against real tasks in isolated sandboxes, then changes one thing at a time: CLI or MCP, skills on or off, this week's CLI release or last week's. It also separates the help an agent genuinely needs (like signing in) from the unnecessary human intervention due to a gap in the experience.We'll use those runs to look at how to design for agents: docs they can actually find, responses that point to the next step, and output they don't have to dig through.