Rucha Bapat is an Engineering Manager at TomTom, where she leads a team building MCP servers, JavaScript SDKs and intelligent agents that let developers and AI systems work directly with map and traffic data. Most of her job is the unglamorous part of engineering leadership: deciding what the team takes on, how work moves through it, and what counts as finished. Since agents joined the team, the daily questions have changed- who verifies what, how much work should be in flight at once, and how you trust something none of you typed. She works through those with her team by running small experiments and keeping what holds. In a domain where a confident answer about a road that doesn't exist is still wrong, she's measuring what the tooling is moving rather than removing.