At Zocdoc, we use Elasticsearch to help patients find the right doctor. We do this by using autocomplete/semantic search to guide patients towards the right specialties/procedures & by displaying the most relevant doctors in the search results. Learn how Zocdoc leverages Elasticsearch & Machine Learning to continuously improve the quality & relevancy of Search at Zocdoc.

Speakers:
Kunal Mudgal is a Senior Software Engineer at Zocdoc since 2017 working on Search. As part of the search team, Kunal has most recently worked on building out a streaming infrastructure for real-time search data ingestion. Previous projects include building search out of the monolith & various autocomplete improvements including emoji search! In his free time, Kunal enjoys some League of Legends, sports fantasy & finding new podcasts to listen.

Misha Kaletsky joined Zocdoc as a senior software engineer in January 2017, from Skype in London. Since then he's worked on moving their search & autocomplete solutions to microservices powered by elasticsearch. He's also helped build a platform to allow multiple search models to be deployed simultaneously so we can continuously improve our results. Misha loves films & table tennis, but not films about table tennis.

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