Kal Radikov
Search Engineering Tech Lead at LexisNexis
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKal Radikov is a Search Engineering Tech Lead in Toronto with 9 years of experience building high-performance search systems, ML-driven relevancy improvements, and cloud-native infrastructure. He has led large migrations (Solr → OpenSearch), cut indexing times from hours to minutes, and shipped embedding-first and vector search solutions using FAISS, TensorFlow, and sentence-transformer models. Comfortable across Python, Golang, C#, AWS, Kubernetes, and Elasticsearch, Kal combines hands-on implementation (microservices, CI/CD, ETL) with strategic roadmap and team mentorship. He has a track record of measurable impact—relevancy boosts, latency reductions, and operating cost savings—while also maintaining an active personal site and visual art portfolio that reveal a creative approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Ontario Secondary School Diploma, High School Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Iroquois Ridge High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Queen's University
English, French, Bulgarian, Italian
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Github Skills (2)
python4
bloom3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
KalRadikov/consulting-website
Aug 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:82 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
KalRadikov/ELEC49X
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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