Atita Arora - Search Relevance Consultant - Revolutionizing E-commerce with Vector Search

Topics:00:00 Intro02:20 Atita’s path into search engineering09:00 When it’s time to contribute to open source12:08 Taking management role vs software development14:36 Knowing what you like (and coming up with a Solr course)19:16 Read the source code (and cook)23:32 Open Bistro Innovations Lab and moving to Germany26:04 Affinity to Search world and working as a Search Relevance Consultant28:39 Bringing vector search to Chorus and Querqy34:09 What Atita learnt from Eric Pugh’s approach to improving Quepid36:53 Making vector search with Solr & Elasticsearch accessible through tooling and documentation41:09 Demystifying data embedding for clients (and for Java based search engines)43:10 Shifting away from generic to domain-specific in search+vector saga46:06 Hybrid search: where it will be useful to combine keyword with semantic search50:53 Choosing between new vector DBs and “old” keyword engines58:35 Women of Search1:14:03 Important (and friendly) People of Open Source1:22:38 Reinforcement learning applied to our careers1:26:57 The magical question of WHY1:29:26 AnnouncementsSee show notes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVM6TUSfn3E