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Real Estate Technology / AI Search

Intelligent Property Discovery

Natural-language discovery meets listing-grounded intelligence, making a complex search feel simple.

COMPANYZillow Group
PERIODJan 2023 — Oct 2024
CONTEXTProfessional engineering work
Illustrative product preview of Intelligent Property Discovery
Illustrative product preview. Independently recreated interface with fictional sample data; not an actual production capture or an independently owned commercial product.
THE ENGINEERING STORY

From complexity
to capability.

The challenge

Translate natural-language intent into relevant property results while keeping listing data fresh and search responsive.

Engineering contributions

  • Built Python/FastAPI services and React/Next.js property search interfaces.
  • Implemented embeddings and pgvector retrieval, enhanced by Elasticsearch hybrid search.
  • Developed Go services for listing updates and search indexing.
  • Integrated listing, mapping, and geocoding services; optimized endpoints and caching.

Performance & reliability

Top-five search relevance increased from 73% to 81%. Average search API latency fell from 1.1 seconds to 780ms.

REPORTED ENGINEERING OUTCOME780msaverage search API latency

Results are specific to this workstream and drawn from the supplied professional history. Preview interface data is illustrative.

Tools behind the work

PythonFastAPIReactNext.jsOpenAI APILangChainpgvectorElasticsearchGoRedis

Explore the reconstructed interface

The visual demonstration shows how these capabilities can be presented. It uses local sample data and does not connect to employer systems.

Open illustrative demonstration
NEXT ENGINEERING STORY

Every channel. One clear picture.