Weilie C

Weilie C currently serves as the Software Engineering Manager at Shopee, where he plays a pivotal role in shaping the company's search and recommendation infrastructure to support an extensive catalog of over 10 billion items. His leadership focuses on optimizing core components such as Recall, Query Understanding, and Ranking, ensuring that users receive highly relevant and personalized search results. Weilie’s expertise in search engine architecture, information retrieval, and recommender systems enables him to develop scalable solutions that enhance user engagement and drive business growth.

In his role, Weilie has successfully built and led the Singapore and Shanghai-based search engineering teams, setting strategic technical goals aligned with Shopee’s rapid expansion and evolving market needs. His responsibilities encompass designing robust search architectures, implementing advanced algorithms using tools like TensorFlow, and leveraging big data technologies such as Hadoop and Elasticsearch to improve search relevance and performance. Weilie’s deep understanding of search engine ranking, query understanding, and growth hacking techniques allows him to innovate continuously and deliver impactful projects that elevate the platform’s competitiveness in the e-commerce industry.

Prior to Shopee, Weilie contributed significantly at Alibaba Group, leading search and recommendation engineering teams and driving the development of AI-powered search solutions. His extensive experience in paid ads platform development and AI-driven search optimization underscores his ability to deliver high-impact, scalable systems. With a strong foundation in software architecture and a passion for leveraging AI and machine learning, Weilie remains at the forefront of search technology innovation, consistently pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in e-commerce search and personalized recommendations.