Principal Search Engineer with 10+ years of experience in designing, supporting, and optimising search solutions across diverse industries such as e-commerce, patents, publishing, and finance. Proficient in Solr/Lucene/Elastic stacks and experienced in customizing Collectors, Scorers, Filters, Analyzers, Tokenizers, and Queries.
Expertise in AWS Opensearch and proven success in data access management and performance optimization for Elastic-based platforms. Adept at tuning relevancy through cutting-edge similarities or by refining existing models.
Skilled Python developer with an extensive background in the Python ecosystem. Passionate about exploring the intersection of Data Science, ML, NLP, and NLU techniques.
Active Open Source community contributor (Maven, OpenJDK, Play Framework, Apache Solr, Indigo, Parso, etc).
🤖 Actively experimenting with ChatGPT API, plugins, and other OpenAI services
🔍 AWS Opensearch expert, with a focus on data access management and performance
📸 Completed projects on image similarity and diving into generative AI and ML
🥽 Collaborating with a scientific lab to develop a VR-based experiment
🔧 Researching natural language intent conversion to structured queries (e.g., SQL)
🌐 Preparing an online demo showcasing various NER and NLP tools (OpenNLP, CoreNLP, Spacy, Flair, etc)
🧪 Implementing molecule similarity in Elasticsearch
🧪 Exploring conversion of chemical names (IUPAC) to structured formats (SMILES) and vice versa
🔬 Investigating browser fingerprinting techniques based on available data
🌉 Testing methods to invoke native code from Java (JNI, JNA, JNR, Panama)
🤝 Open to collaborating on information retrieval projects – feel free to reach out anytime!
- 🗣️ Talk at Apache Lucene/Solr - London User Group about deploying Solr in complicated multi-region environmentsLink - https://www.meetup.com/Apache-Lucene-Solr-London-User-Group/events/266888836/
- 🗣️ Talk at Cambridge Cheminformatics Meeting about effective ways to search similar molecules in Elasticsearch. Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OU1j2EY8M0
- 🗣️ Talk about effective ways to search similar molecules in Elasticsearch. Link - https://wearecommunity.io/events/zed-conference/talks/6546
- 🗣️ Talk at Summer Python meetup about Python generators and how one could build simple search engine on top of it (in Russian) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88WF7MturzM
- 🗣️ Talk about browser fingerprint and general overview of 3rd party cookies departure. Link - https://wearecommunity.io/events/fingerprinting-privacy-issues-and-3rd-party-cookies-departure/talks/15685
- 🗣️ Talk about Python generators and simple search engine implementation based on it. Link - https://wearecommunity.io/events/python-generators-how-to-build-simple-search-engine-on-it/talks/15723
- 🗣️ Talk at Codeberry Club about CTF competition. Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbi1Zo8qow0
