My bio, headshots, background, etc for meetup/conferences

Bio

Doug Turnbull has been enthusiastic about search and retrieval since 2013. He co-authored Relevant Search and AI Powered Search. He created open source tools such as Quepid, Elasticsearch Learning to Rank plugin, and SearchArray.

Doug recently worked for Daydream. His hybrid search solutions using CLIP models led to a doubling in conversions (purchase in saves) in Daydream's e-commerce AI search. Doug's recent work on ML ranking at Reddit created a 2% increase in DAU, the largest seen in Reddit search history. Recently Doug worked at Shopify to help improve merchant search attributed revenue by 10% year over year.. Doug spent 8 years consulting at dozens of organizations during his time as CTO at OpenSource Connections.

Doug currently spends his times consulting and training organizations.

Doug blogs about search and other topics at http://softwaredoug.com

Headshots

Images and Bio (C) Doug Turnbull.

One who seeks knowledge learns something new each day.

One who seeks the Tao unlearns something new each day.