Products

Media Tab (2023)

Searchers are able to filter posts by media, displayed in a grid format

Reddit Search Media Campaign (2021-present)

I write a 9 part series on the official Reddit product blog for 3 years of launches, gaining 120+ media articles and >1B monthly viewer impressions.

Global Comment Search (2022)

Users can search across 3B+ comments on Reddit

Improved Typeahead (2022)

Separating typeahead results made it easier for searchers to distinguish between profiles and communities if they didn't know what u/ or r/ means

Search Comments in a Post (2023)

Searchers can now search within a post's comments

Vaccine Tracking Flow, Taimaka (2024)

I rebuild the vaccine flow for Taimaka patients so caregivers and healthcare workers can be regularly notified about what vaccines their children need at different ages.

Complete Search Redesign (2021)

Searchers have a cleaner search results page to more easily find results

Performance Improvements (2021-present)

Despite not being able to see backend changes, the team shipped huge improvements to latency, relevance, and performance over the years.  

Query Suggestions (2024)

Searchers now get query suggestions in typeahead

Safe Searching (2022)

18+ users can now specify when exactly they want to see safe or unsafe content

Relevance Improvements (2021-2023)

By fine tuning the relevance algorithm and introducing ML into search ranking, the team drastically improved search relevance. I led both back and frontend teams from 2021-2023.