• Ported critical parts of the search infrastructure from Go to Rust, which improved CPU usage by 5%
• Built a library with user-friendly APIs for interacting with different systems used throughout Siri Search organization, such as an in-house MapReduce framework
• Built various components for iOS-based search infrastructure, such as spell correction and stemming, and integrated it with Safari as a prototype to demonstrate its capabilities
• Maintained the search-based data pipeline for Apple News in order to show relevant news articles in English and French for users in locales that lack a dedicated manual content curation team
• Worked on the first layer of defense against spam on iMessage, to detect malicious users and throttle their message throughput, with the primary aim of increasing iMessage adoption in China