I enjoy building data-intensive products and solutions that apply data science to complex business domains. I have deep experience and understanding of "traditional" backend development / SaaS architectures as well as bringing state of the art machine learning techniques to market.In particular, I specialize in:- Backend development - architecture, hands-on implementation & operations- Data engineering - scalable systems across full data lifecycle, from data acquisition to complex algorithms- Information retrieval & NLP - large-scale, distributed indexing and search systems, search quality and algorithmic ranking- Machine learning - hands-on implementation and commercialization of statistical approaches to supervised and unsupervised learning