Bertrand Rigaldies
Principal Engineer at Shipt
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBertrand Rigaldies is a Principal Engineer at Shipt, where he leads the architecture roadmap for the Search team and drives scalable, production-ready design across the company's search ecosystem. He brings about a decade of deep expertise in search, information retrieval, and data architecture, including a tenure as Data Architect & Search Consultant at OpenSource Connections where he revamped ranking logic and engineered large Solr/Elasticsearch deployments for enterprise-scale platforms, including SolrCloud setups with billions of documents. His career spans leadership roles across diverse industries—from EPA data pipelines and QA checks engines to IP telephony platforms—demonstrating a proven ability to translate complex domain needs into robust architectural solutions. A hands-on technologist and strategic thinker, he has guided cross-functional teams through performance tuning, recall and ranking testing methodologies, and cloud-based search scalability. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, he holds an MS in Technology and Policy from MIT and an engineering background from CentraleSupélec, reflecting a strong blend of technical depth and systems-level thinking. He combines practical delivery with open-source collaboration to build search infrastructure that scales with business needs.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Technology and Policy Program, Master of Science, Technology and Policy Program at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIngénieur des Arts et Manufactures, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Ingénieur des Arts et Manufactures, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science at CentraleSupélecBaccalauréat, section C, Maths & Physics, Baccalauréat, section C, Maths & Physics at Lycée Le Corbusier, Poissy, FranceMathématiques Supérieures, Maths & Physics, Mathématiques Supérieures, Maths & Physics at Lycée Hoche, Versailles, France
French
Github Skills (29)
solr7
workbench5
algolia-search5
api5
opennlp5
meilisearch5
solr-search4
algolia4
nodejs4
notebooks4
elasticsearch-client4
rest4
rest-api4
jupyter-notebook4
elasticsearch4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brigaldies/python-by-example
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
brigaldies/search_with_machine_learning_course
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Public repository for the Search with Machine Learning course taught by Daniel Tunkelang and Grant Ingersoll. Available at https://corise.com/?utm_source=daniel.
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes in 21 days
public-repositorycorisemachine-learning-courseutmmachine-learning
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