Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Owning key search retrieval metrics (Search Add-to-Cart Rate, NDCG@5, Recall Completeness); drove $150M+ annual sales
• Led development of query-product type affinity model, and applied it to drastically reducing low-match items in retrieval set. Lift of 3bps site conversion rate, driving $54M incremental annual sales.
• Launched semantic search to bridge phrase gaps between user queries and item listings, enabling exploratory shoppers to find exactly what they want. Lift of 10bps search add to cart rate, driving $5M incremental annual sales.
• Leveraged GenAI to synthesize new metadata for existing catalog to supercharge text match based search. Initiative drove Search Add-to-Cart by 7bps.
• Finalist (top 9 of 70 teams) in org-wide GenAI Championship for customer-focused innovation.
• Introduced item content enrichment service that reduces bias for marketplace sellers gamifying search retrieval and ranking systems. Generated $18M additional sales.
• Vibe coded and launched Why Search Why, an internal AI agent that takes a problematic retrieval case and triangulates the exact reason by debugging systems across search stack - item index, query understanding, query normalization, spell check and ranking service.

Sep 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos