Tillman Elser

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Senior Engineering Manager
Sentry

Presentation Title:

You’re not using embeddings enough

Presentation Summary:

Text embeddings had their moment in the sun when RAG was first popularized, but they’ve (rightfully) fallen by the wayside as developers have identified more efficient ways to retrieve context for AI agents. However, there are so many opportunities to use this magical data structure to improve the quality of your products in more direct ways!

 Ideal for practitioners interested to learn how they can apply embeddings in an actual production setting, this session will include a technical overview of the system that Sentry has developed to dramatically improve the quality and accuracy of its Issue Feed.

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About | Tillman Elser

Tillman Elser is a Senior Engineering Manager at Sentry, where he leads company-wide AI/ML initiatives. He developed Sentry’s issue grouping algorithm, and is presently leading engineering and research for Seer. Tillman is passionate about the practical applications of vector embeddings, agentic systems, and Statistics.

In his free time, he enjoys Eurogames and cats.