Louise Davies

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Senior Software Engineer at Fairway Group · learning to rank, Java

Fairway Group
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
8+ years experience
University of Warwick
English
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Overview

8 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Fairway Group, where I work on the search team. Wrote the A/B testing service that now handles 26 million requests a day. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 6. Before that: Kainos and HSBC. Most at home with Lucene and Scala. Collector of fountain pens.

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Skills
ScalaPythonA/B testingLuceneJavalearning to rank

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer
    Jun 2022 - Present
    Fairway Group · 4 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 34% in two quarters.
    • Grew the search team from 5 to 26 engineers.
  2. Software Engineer
    Mar 2020 - Jun 2022
    Kainos · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 301ms to 48ms.
  3. Software Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
    HSBC · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 17 a week to 1.

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Education

  1. University of Warwick
    BSc, Computer Science
    2014 - 2017

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