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Kanish Manuja

Conference affiliation: Twilio · 2026

Kanish Manuja built LLM gateways and AI platform systems at Twilio at World’s Fair 2026. His work spans multi-tenant access, authentication and authorization, guardrails, audit logs and operational reliability. His background includes conversational intelligence and distributed systems, with a focus on moving model-based applications into production.

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AI Engineer World's Fair 202616:23

Productionizing LLM Gateways: Architecture, Tradeoffs and Hard Lessons — Kanish Manuja, Twilio

Kanish Manuja discusses production LLM gateways as a tradeoff among availability, latency, guardrails and cost. He recommends tested per-request fallbacks, model-specific latency measurements and timeouts, explicit guardrail failure policies, and protection against overload. He also argues that centralized governance can be implemented without routing all…

Kanish Manuja

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