Doug Turnbull (Maven)
-- search should be an asset. Not mysterious.
Led teams at Shopify, Reddit, Wikipedia
About Doug
In 2012, Doug got bit by the search bug and he's still trying to keep up. From full-text search, to Learning to Rank models, to search agents that generate their own code, he knows the endless landscape first hand. Yet Doug wants to deeply understand the what / how / why, and help teams use these technologies practically, distinguishing hype from reality.
He’s led search at Reddit, Shopify, and Wikipedia, authored Relevant Search and AI Powered Search, and advised 100+ organizations over the years - all in pursuit of the same question: how does search actually work?
Courses
Multi-day, guided programs to get real results
Cheat at Search with Agents
Rethink search to put tireless agents at work for human users
Build Production-Ready AI Agents for the Enterprise
Build and reason about enterprise agents grounded in your team's knowledge base
Workshops
Single-day, hands-on sprints to practice new skills
Lightning Lessons
Free, interactive sessions to explore new topics
Your agent traces are a corpus
Embeddings don't solve RAG
IR Today: Theory, Practice, and Agents
High scale agentic memory with Turbopuffer
Tensors in the Search Engine (Why?)
