Senior Software Engineer
Dow Jones
Toronto, ON
03.2022 - Current
- Designed and deployed a scalable content enrichment pipeline leveraging LLM orchestration, enhancing real-time semantic search capabilities for a vast repository of articles while standardizing NINJ support to streamline client onboarding.
- Directed transition from legacy EC2 services to Kubernetes to optimize deployment processes and maintain uninterrupted access to worldwide content.
- Led development of semantic search entitlement systems for WSJ, MarketWatch, and Barron's to enhance secure access control and scalability across business units.
- Modernized infrastructure management using Terraform and Chef, implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to eliminate configuration drift and manual overhead.
- Designed and implemented a high-concurrency embedding service utilizing Google Vertex AI to enhance real-time semantic search capabilities.
- Developed and implemented a high-precision named entity recognition (NER) pipeline, establishing a model-agnostic evaluation framework.
- Executed rigorous benchmarking across Gemini 2.5, Llama 3, Mistral, and Gemma 3 to enhance F1, recall, and precision, significantly surpassing heuristic-based baselines.
- Implemented VASP automation strategy, achieving seamless integration of nine data sources and transitioning product to a near-fully automated model, significantly decreasing editorial workload.