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Technical Leadership

Technical Leaders

Marc Krellenstein

Photo of Marc Krellenstein Marc Krellenstein is the founder of Lucid Imagination. Marc has 30 years experience in the computer industry, focusing for the last 20 years on information retrieval technology and applications. Marc was previously Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Search and Discovery Technology at Elsevier, the scientific, technical and medical publishing division of Reed-Elsevier. Prior to Elsevier, Marc was Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering at Northern Light Technology, where he was the founding technologist and led the design and development of the Northern Light search service, including designing the data model, query interpretation, relevancy ranking, automatic document classification and patented technology for document clustering. Marc has an A.B. in philosophy from Cornell; he earned his M.S. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Ph.D. in psychology (cognitive science) from the New School for Social Research, NY.

Erik Hatcher

Photo of Erik Hatcher Erik Hatcher is the co-author of "Lucene in Action" as well as  co-author of "Java Development with Ant". Erik has been an active member of the Lucene community - a leading Lucene and Solr committer, member of the Lucene Project Management Committee, member of the Apache Software Foundation as well as a frequent invited speaker at various industry events. Erik earned his B.S. in Computer Science from University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

Grant Ingersoll

Photo of Grant Ingersoll Grant Ingersoll is the creator of the Lucene Boot Camp training program, a regularly featured speaker at ApacheCon and other industry events. Grant has been an active member of the Lucene community – a Lucene and Solr committer, co-founder of the Apache Mahout machine learning project, chairman of the Lucene Project Management Committee (PMC) as well as a Vice President at the Apache Software Foundation. Grant’s prior experience includes work at the Center for Natural Language Processing at Syracuse University in natural language processing and information retrieval. Grant earned his B.S. from Amherst College in Math and Computer Science and his M.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University, NY.

Yonik Seeley

Photo of Yonik Seeley Yonik Seeley is the creator of Solr. He is an expert in distributed search systems architecture and performance. Yonik has been a prolific Lucene/Solr committer, a member of the Lucene PMC, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. Yonik’s work experience includes CNET Networks, BEA and Telcordia. He earned his M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Brian Pinkerton

Brian Pinkerton has a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering and started his work career as a senior software engineer at NeXT. He then developed WebCrawler, the web's first comprehensive search engine. Since then he was Technical Architect at AOL (which acquired WebCrawler), VP of Engineering and Chief Scientist at Excite, Principal Architect at A9, Director of Search at Technorati and co-founder/President of Minimal Loop, whose technology was acquired by Scout Labs and where Brian was, until just recently, the VP of Engineering.
 

 

 

Technical Staff

Mark Miller is a member of the Lucene PMC, a Lucene Committer and a Solr Commmitter. He's most recently developed a new scoring implementation for highlighter that supports phrase and span queries

Chris Hostetter is a Lucene/Solr Committer, and Lucene PMC Member and Member, Apache Software Foundation. He was previously Principal Software Engineer at CBSi/CNET.

Jay Hill has been building enterprise search applications since 2003, and has worked extensively with Autonomy IDOL, Lucene, and Solr. He is a certified Solr trainer, and is lead author for Lucid Imagination's Solr training courses.

Tom Hill was a co-founder of Zvents.com, a local search site now supporting 10+ million visitors/month, where he built their company's search infrastructure, initially in Lucene, and then later as a Solr early adopter. His career includes work at Sun Microsystems, General Magic and Tymnet.

Simon Rosenthal has broad experience in Enterprise search technology and implementations; formerly, he was Senior Solutions Architect and Principal Engineer at Northern Light.

Sami Siren

Andrzej Bialecki

  • Technical Advisor to Lucid Imagination
  • Lucene/Nutch/Hadoop Committer and Lucene PMC Member

 

Technical Advisory Board

Doug Cutting

  • Chair, Lucid Imagination Technical Advisory Board
  • Creator of Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop
  • Lucene PMC Member
  • Member, Apache Software Foundation
  • Blog http://blog.lucene.com/

Ted Dunning

Ryan McKinley

  • Lucene/Solr Committer and Lucene PMC Member

Jukka Zitting