Software Engineer with over 15 years of professional experience, specializing in backend development and data systems.
Working on search, information retrieval, and AI-powered products using Elasticsearch, Python, RAG, and LLMs.
Worked on search, relevance, autocompletion, and recommendations.
Led a small search team.
Worked on search relevance and infrastructure. Automated deployment of a personalized aesthetics ranking model, improved general relevance, and enabled ranking experimentation.
Development and maintenance of Core Search and Discovery products.
Maintained and developed the internal deployment tool used across the organization. Contributed to the internal CI initiative, introduced modern Python development practices, and mentored junior engineers.
Developed ovi.js — a cross-platform application framework and UI library in JavaScript for web and mobile.