Apache Lucene/Solr Committers
Lucid Imagination fundamentally believes in the benefits provided by the Apache Lucene/Solr project. So much so, that we dedicate time from some of our own key employees to work towards the success of this very important open source project. We are pleased to introduce you to our Apache Lucene/Solr team.
Lucene/Solr Core Committers
Lucid Imagination is proud to say that out of the 30 current Apache Lucene Core Committers, 8 are employed by our company.
Lucene/Solr Project Management Committee (PMC)
Lucid Imagination is proud to say that out of the current 21 member committee, 7 are employed by our company.
Andrzej BiałeckiCore Committer and PMC member |
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| Andrzej Białecki has 20 years of experience in software engineering, ranging from system integration, to OS development to information retrieval, to standardization of e-commerce models. He's been actively involved in Open Source since 1997. Currently he's an Apache Lucene PMC Member, he's also a committer in the Apache Nutch and Apache Hadoop projects. He's also the author of a popular Lucene index inspection utility - Luke. Andrzej holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. | ||||
Erick EricksonCore Committer |
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| Erick Erickson developed code for almost 30 years and companies ranging in size from less than 15 to 1,500 prior to joining Lucid in its Professional Services group. While at Lucid, Erick has helped various Lucid clients implement Solr/Lucene based solutions for a variety of problems and at a variety of scales. He's been amazed by the number of different problems "search" is being applied to, and how different the definition of "good search" is in different domains. Erick is a core Solr/Lucene committer (Yaaaa, he still gets to program!) and regular contributor to the user's list. Erick received his MS from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. |
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Erik HatcherCore Committer and PMC member |
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| 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. | ||||
Chris HostetterCore Committer and PMC member |
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| 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. | ||||
Grant IngersollCore Committer and PMC member |
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| 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. | ||||
Mark MillerCore Committer and PMC member |
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| Mark Miller is a Lucene/Solr Committer, and Lucene PMC Member and Member, Apache Software Foundation. He has been contributing to Lucene/Solr since 2006. |
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Robert MuirCore Committer and PMC member |
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| Robert Muir is both a Lucene/Solr PMC Member as well as a Core Committer. He earned his BS in Computer Science from Radford University and a MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to Lucid Imagination, Robert worked for Ntrepid Corporation. |
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Yonik SeeleyCore Committer and PMC member |
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| 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. |
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