Jason has built search and recommendation systems for the past 6 years. He has consulted and advised a dozens startups in the last year to improve their RAG systems. He is the creator of the Instructor Python library.

Hamish was a founder of search.io, a proprietary search engine and one of the first production scale vector + full text search engines handling billions of queries a month. Search.io was later acquired by Algolia where he is now the Vice President of AI. He has 10+ years experience designing and building search engines and distributed systems. Prior to this he specialised in data and analytics. He holds a PhD in Physics