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Doug Turnbull (Maven)

Doug Turnbull (Maven)

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Led teams at Shopify, Reddit, Wikipedia

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Doug Turnbull (Maven) -- search should be an asset. Not mysterious.

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?

Previously at
Reddit
Shopify.com
Wikipedia
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Alumni reviews

Natalie

Live cohort
Machine Learning Engineer · Ex-Meta

Build Production-Ready AI Agents for the Enterprise

Hugo and Doug have created a really comprehensive and high ROI course, covering agent loops and their limitations, how to do comprehensive sets of evals, guardrails on harnesses, and more. Seeing the application of RAG, MCP, evals and deployment to an e-commerce project really improved my understanding of how to build production AI agents, their failure modes and diagnostics. I also appreciated the hands-on opportunities to work on our own projects with the course learnings, and it was cool seeing people present their work.

Mario

Live cohort
MLops Engineer · EAFIT University

Build Production-Ready AI Agents for the Enterprise

To be honest, I expected it to be more of a superficial introduction to the topics, but Hugo and Doug did a great job explaining the fundamentals and going a bit beyond that. I especially enjoyed the practical exercises because they matched the theory very well and helped make the concepts much clearer. Overall, I found the course very useful and valuable.

Bera

Live cohort
Data & Integration Solution Engineer · Salesforce

Build Production-Ready AI Agents for the Enterprise

Course touched on some fundamental concepts of Agentic Engineering and Search. I found it quite useful as it filled any knowledge gaps I had on both topics. Doug and Hugo are very engaging and explain the concepts with clarity. Thank you!

Ben

Live cohort
Consumer Behavior Modeling Manager · Bank of America

Build Production-Ready AI Agents for the Enterprise

Top notch content with relevant side bars to make the concepts real. Great blend of concepts and hands on. You come away with code to run and study, so you can really absorb the material. Strongly recommend.

Anria

Live cohort
I learned way more than I thought I would. This is an advanced course to be sure, and I feel blessed to have found it in the nick of time. Thank you both for offering this. The Capstone show & tell session was tremendous. Seeing how different people use AI was eye opening to say the very least.