Newroz Gilgil

Software Engineer, Fullstack Search

• Led the design and implementation of the hybrid search solution, integrating semantic search (embeddings) with lexical retrieval from architecture to deployment: +10.7% CTR and +2.6% conversion rate.
• Key contributor to the search solution powering two of Switzerland’s leading e-commerce platforms; owned the full-stack lifecycle including GCP infrastructure, data ingestion, business logic, monitoring and operations.
• Created automated on-call using coding agents, from initial triage to first response.
• Eliminated inefficiencies across the stack by identifying performance gaps and making the right trade-offs, significantly reducing latencies, memory usage, computation times and cost.
• Standardized a Go development template focused on telemetry and CI/CD, reducing build and deployment cycles to minutes from local testing to production.
• Delivered solutions across Search, Pricing, Inventory, Recommendations, Chatbots and DWH.

DevOps Engineer, Fund management & pension provision

• ETL pipelines, DWH and fund management applications for metrics calculations across 200+ billion CHF AUM.
• Designed and implemented reporting for Swiss collective investment schemes to meet new FINMA data collection requirements, consolidating disparate sources into a centralized schema.
• Contributed to a high-priority migration of the risk metrics stack from legacy SAS to SAS DI, refactoring risk calculation logic and validating data integrity.

BSc Computer Science

• Bachelor’s thesis: a VR language learning experience integrating LLMs, speech recognition and speech synthesis.
• Coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data Systems, Programming Languages & Paradigms.
• Project: trained CNN models for EEG classification.