Jesse Robles
Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer at Shopify
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Robles is an engineer and data scientist with a decade of experience building search and conversational AI systems, currently contributing at You.com and Shopify on scalable search infrastructure. He has designed and optimized high-throughput, real-time indexing pipelines and Elasticsearch platforms that handle billions of documents and thousands of queries per second, leveraging Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, Apache Beam, and Terraform. Jesse blends applied NLP and ML—having modernized Solr to ML-powered Elasticsearch and built a Rasa-based conversational assistant—with strong systems and cost-optimization instincts that delivered significant savings. He mentors engineers, improves data freshness and query relevance through robust evaluation and A/B testing, and holds an MS in Computer Science from George Washington University. Based in Rockville, Maryland, he brings a rare mix of production-grade distributed systems expertise and hands-on data science experience rooted in both government and commercial projects.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Github Skills (19)
search-engine10
opensearch10
java10
python-client10
restful10
elasticsearch-client10
elasticsearch10
relevance9
integrate9
elasticsearch-plugin9
python9
elastic9
session-store8
flask7
server-side6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jesserobles/query-intent-classifier
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
jesserobles/reinforcement-learning
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:32 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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