High-Scale Product Discovery Platform

Problem

Retail teams needed a fast, governed system to search and curate millions of SKUs while maintaining taxonomy quality and compliance.

Solution / Approach

Built a schema-driven product discovery platform that merges search, taxonomy governance, and editorial workflows. Designed faceted search and bulk actions to handle high-volume updates with auditability.

Architecture

• Typesense-backed search cluster with tuned indexing pipelines.
• API layer in FastAPI with schema validation for catalog updates.
• UI built on reusable components to reflect taxonomy rules.

Key Features

• 7.7M+ SKU faceted search with custom relevance tuning.
• Bulk edit and approval workflows with audit trails.
• Schema-driven UI that adapts to category constraints.

What I Learned

Balancing search relevance with governance requires strong schema contracts and clear editorial workflows to keep scale manageable.