Jeremiah Via
Lead Research Engineer II at Thomson Reuters
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJeremiah Via is a Lead Research Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance search systems, currently driving search research at Thomson Reuters from Portland, Oregon. He led hybrid semantic search work at The New York Times that improved performance on complex question queries by 22%, and built reusable tooling and Clojure libraries for query rewriting and entity linking that standardized search development across multiple products. Jeremiah has strong cloud and scalability chops—leading a major AWS-to-GCP migration and hardening systems to handle 20x traffic spikes during breaking news—and a track record of streaming and relevancy infrastructure work spanning the Times’ entire archive. He combines research-minded experimentation with pragmatic production engineering, making search more accurate and resilient at scale.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Grossmont CollegeMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Tufts UniversityBSc Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science Computer Science, BSc Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science Computer Science at University of Birmingham
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
leiningen10
elasticsearch-client10
babashka10
pedestal9
meilisearch9
solr-search9
solr9
rum9
server-side9
elasticsearch8
clojure8
information-retrieval8
opensearch8
algolia8
search-engine7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nytimes/vase.elasticsearch
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 10 months
jvia/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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