Programming Throwdown, Episode 94. Search at Etsy. Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody. We have a pretty awesome episode here we have an interview

episode with liang g who's director of engineering data science and machine learning at etzi and langji's

is going to tell us you all about kind of how search works when you type search a search query into that box

what what actually happens under the hood?

Langji, why don't you talk about, like introduce yourself and talk about, you know,

kind of what led you to the path that took you to where you are now?

Yeah, sure.

First of all, thank you for having me here.

So I'm Liangji Holm.

I'm the director of engineering data science and machinery here at Etsy. So I'm Liang Ji Hong. I'm a director of engineering data science and machine learning here at

Etsy. So I'm managing the organization of applying machine learning to a lot of different

product here at Etsy. So currently we have a mix of data scientists and a machine engineer here at ETC, working on programs like

search, which is kind of a major topic we are going to talk about today, as well as other domains

like recommendations, advertising as well.

We have engineers present in both of our headquarter New York City office

as well as San Francisco office and we are hiring and growing teams there as well. Before coming

to Etsy in 2016, I worked in Yahoo Research in California, so I first joined

as a research scientist and later as a senior research scientist and later promoted

to managing a group of researchers, focusing on personalization recommendations, as well as some of the mobile search

innovations back then. So that is a path that lead me to figuring out how to best for

few of us, providing the most relevant to users, most relevant result to users,

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