Ella Morgan

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Engineering Manager at Redfern Solutions · Search and ranking

Redfern Solutions
Melbourne, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
14+ years experience
University of Hong Kong
English
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Overview

14 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Redfern Solutions, where I lead the search team. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 4. Before that: Meta and VNG. I play football every Sunday.

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  • Advice on search and ranking
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Working sessions on Python
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Crypto token projects

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Skills
JavaElasticsearchLuceneScalaPython
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

7 security engineer roles open on the search team in Melbourne

Role
Security engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$127k-$173k + equity
Team
Search, 16 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Elasticsearch Production experience with Scala Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp S$110k-S$178k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Melbourne, Australialucenescalaelasticsearch
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Open to advising pre-seed teams on Lucene

Topics
search and ranking, Lucene, Python
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
First-time founders

14 years of search and ranking. One call a month or async reviews.

Melbourne, Australia · remote OKjavascalapython
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Redfern Solutions · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Moved 67% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 6.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 19% in two quarters.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
    Meta · 3 yr 6 mo · Contract · Melbourne, Australia
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Dec 2016 - Feb 2019
    VNG · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Led the migration of 25 services to Lucene.
  4. Software Engineer
    Sep 2014 - Dec 2016
    LG Electronics · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 17 a week to 2.
  5. Software Engineer
    Jun 2012 - May 2014
    VNG · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Wrote the Elasticsearch service that now handles 36 million requests a day.

Projects

Write-up: search and ranking in practice
2024

A long-form guide to search and ranking for people starting out.

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Education

  1. University of Hong Kong
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2007 - 2011

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