About this site This site collects my technical writing on search, data pipelines, and distributed systems. Topics include relevance, performance, reliability, data ingestion, and system architecture. Professional context I am a Senior Principal Architect working on GenAI and Search at Elastic. Earlier in my career, I worked on FPGA architectures and place-and-route algorithms. My peer-reviewed publications from that work have been cited over 3,600 times. More details: About the Author · Professional Record · Personal · LinkedIn