Doug Turnbull
Doug Turnbull has been enthusiastic about search relevance since 2013. He co-authored Relevant Search and AI Powered Search. He created Quepid and Splainer for search relevance testing. He co-created the Elasticsearch Learning to Rank plugin with Wikimedia Foundation and Snagajob. Doug loves learning from other search practitioners, and hopes you'll bring inquisitive curiosity and experiences to this talk.
Doug currently works at Reddit where he's helping bring Machine Learning to search. Recently Doug worked at Shopify to help improve merchant search attributed revenue by 19% year over year. Doug spent 8 years consulting at dozens of organizations improve search relevance during his time as CTO at OpenSource Connections.
Doug blogs about search and other topics at http://softwaredoug.com
Session
The successes (and failures) of applying Machine Learning to improve Reddit's search ranking