Chintan Turakhia

About Chintan Turakhia

Chintan Turakhia is the Senior Director of Engineering at Coinbase, where he leads the team building the Base consumer app (formerly Coinbase Wallet). He became known in the AI engineering community for his hands-on approach to driving AI adoption across a 1,000+ engineer organization — personally coding in Cursor daily to demonstrate value rather than mandating adoption from above.

Career Highlights

• Coinbase (present): Senior Director of Engineering, Base app
• AI Adoption Champion: Led company-wide Cursor adoption, created PR speedrun methodology
• Cloudbot Creator: Built internal Slack-based agent chaining Linear, MCPs, and multiple codebases
• “Super Builder” Role: Invented new role focused on making everyone else more productive with AI

Notable Positions

On Driving AI Adoption at Scale

Turakhia’s playbook: one conviction-driven leader codes daily, targets toil first (tests, linting, git), creates visible wins through timed PR speedruns, and builds internal agents for workflows external tools can’t reach. Results: PR review cycles dropped from 150 hours to 15 hours, company-wide speedruns produced 400 PRs in 30 minutes.

On Coordination Overhead

With AI compressing the feedback-to-fix cycle to minutes, the traditional sprint planning and prioritization meetings become unnecessary. Turakhia reports his calendar is “almost empty” — leaders spend time writing code instead of coordinating.

Key Quotes

• “How do I make this damn thing stick? Because there’s something here.”
• “My calendar is empty. Almost empty. You just do things.”
• “It’s adapt or die. It’s just been such a huge superpower for the team.”

Related Reading

• Enterprise AI - The organizational adoption challenge
• Vibe Coding - The coding paradigm enabling rapid iteration