Speaker Details
Cem Ünsal
Distinguished Engineer, Walmart
Dr. Ünsal is a distinguished engineering leader with over 25 years of experience in architecting large-scale distributed systems and driving technical innovation. Currently serving as a Distinguished Engineer at Walmart, he focuses on the strategic development of agentic AI ecosystems and scalable backend architectures. His career is marked by a deep expertise in high-performance computing, cloud infrastructure, and the practical application of emerging technologies.
Talk Details
Path to Success: How to overcome personal bias, engineering concerns and other pitfalls to take Vespa to production
Cem talk about his personal search journey with Vespa starting in early 2000s. He will talk about his approach to making Vespa available for various verticals, emphasizing potential pitfalls and short-term gains. Names of the innocents will be redacted.
This talk will include notes on creating a fast path to production for a low-latency, high-relevance search engine with multi-tenancy in complex domains. It will list pitfalls, key tenets amd surprises when delivering fast and at scale, with small teams.