David Fisher
Search Relevance Strategist
Standish, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Fisher is a search relevance strategist with seven years of focused industry experience and a long academic pedigree in information retrieval and NLP. He currently improves personalization and intent understanding for search and discovery systems at OpenSource Connections, applying search engine tech, machine learning, and language processing in production. Previously he spent decades at UMass Amherst designing and teaching Applied Information Retrieval and contributing to core IR projects like the Lemur toolkit, bringing both research-grade rigor and practical engineering. His background also includes identity and provisioning systems engineering and consulting on custom search engines, giving him a rare blend of systems, IR, and deployment experience. Based in Standish, Maine, he pairs deep academic credentials (M.S. Computer Science, UC Berkeley) with hands-on tuning of real-world search stacks. An understated strength is his track record of translating IR research into reliable, maintainable software used by institutions and products.
7 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (19)
opensearch10
information-retrieval10
solr10
custom-search10
elasticsearch-plugin10
elasticsearch10
algolia9
machine-learning9
smui9
jupyter-notebook9
algolia-search8
relevance7
opensearch-dashboards7
java6
ecommerce5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
david-fisher/320-S19-Track2
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Integration Track 2's repo for all five teams to use
Contributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
fivejava
david-fisher/HackHer2020-workshop
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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