Felipe Besson
Staff Search Relevance Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolFelipe Besson is a Staff Search Relevance Engineer with 14 years of experience building and shipping search and recommendation systems across ecommerce and marketplace products. Based in Ottawa, he blends data science and engineering expertise to drive relevance, personalization, ranking, and diversification at companies like Shopify, OLX Group, GetYourGuide and Walmart eCommerce. He has hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Spark, Scala, Python and large-scale feature pipelines, and has led both algorithmic improvements and operational search services. Felipe’s background includes academic research in automated testing for distributed web service choreographies, which informs his rigorous approach to reliability and pipeline design. Colleagues rely on him to translate product needs into measurable search metrics and production-ready ML models. He combines strategic product collaboration with deep implementation skill to push the boundaries of information retrieval in real-world systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (31)
relevance9
integrate9
elasticsearch-plugin9
scrapy9
crawler8
scraper8
elasticsearch6
machine-learning6
python6
ltr3
uls3
similarity2
bus2
rails1
internet-of-things1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
besson/zuhause
Oct 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
besson/ds-capstone-project
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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