Tiana Renee Harris

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Software Engineer, Ivory Studio - Lucene · A/B testing · Python

Ivory Studio
Atlanta, GA · ET (UTC-5)
2+ years experience
Carnegie Mellon University
English
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Overview

I work on search and ranking at Ivory Studio in Atlanta. Moved 92% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with A/B testing and Elasticsearch. Marathoner (7 so far).

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Skills
LuceneElasticsearchPythonA/B testing

Experience

  1. Software Engineer
    Mar 2026 - Present
    Ivory Studio · 7 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 361ms to 68ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 31% in two quarters.
    • Shipped 8 launches on the search team without a rollback.
  2. Software Engineer
    Oct 2024 - Mar 2026
    eBay · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 5.

Projects

Search and ranking benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Lucene and A/B testing on real workloads.

Write-up: search and ranking in practice
2026

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

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Education

  1. Carnegie Mellon University
    BS, Electronics and Communication
    2019 - 2023

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