Speakers
Aaron Binns
Internet Archive | United States
Aaron Binns is a Senior Software Engineer at Internet Archive (archive.org), which he joined in 2008. His focus is full-text search of web archives and analysis of "Big Data". He manages Lucene-based full-text search deployments in total over 2 billion documents.
SESSION(S): Archive-It Full-Text Search: 200 Customers, 2000+ Collections, 1.3+ Billion Archival Web Pages.
Alberto Mijares
Canoo Engineering AG | Switzerland
Alberto Mijares is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience. He is Scrum Master and an agile practitioner. He has a large background in Web technologies and Java, having participated in the past in W3C activities related with Semantic Web. His usual role is either leading projects or designing architectures for web applications. He started working in Canoo Engineering AG (Switzerland) in 2008 and speaks Spanish, English and German. He has a degree in Computer Engineering. He has participated giving talks in Java and Web related conferences and user groups in Switzerland and Spain.SESSION(S): How to Improve the Quality of your Solr Results by Implementing the Right Word Analyzers
Andrzej Bialecki
Lucid Imagination | Poland
Andrzej Bialecki, Apache Lucene PMC Member, also serves as the project lead for Apache Nutch, and is a committer in the Apache Hadoop project. He's also the author of the popular Luke index inspection utility. Andrzej holds a master's degree in Electronics from Warsaw Technical University. He's currently working with the Lucid's engineering team.
SESSION(S): Portable Lucene Index Format and Applications
Andrzej Bialecki
Andrzej Bialecki, Apache Lucene PMC Member, also serves as the project lead for Apache Nutch, and is a committer in the Apache Hadoop project. He's also the author of the popular Luke index inspection utility. Andrzej holds a master's degree in Electronics from Warsaw Technical University. He's currently working with the Lucid's engineering team.
Charlie Hull
Flax | United Kingdom
Charlie Hull is Managing Director and co-founder of Flax, search experts based in Cambridge, U.K. Charlie leads an team of highly experienced search consultants on projects for clients including the Financial Times of London.
SESSION(S): It's Just the Job: Employing Solr for Powerful Recruitment Search
Chris Hostetter
Lucid Imagination | United States
Chris Hostetter is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation, and serves on the Lucene Project Management Committee. Prior to joining Lucid Imagination in 2010 to work full time on Solr development, he spent 11 years as a Principal Software Engineer for CNET Networks thinking about searching "structured data" that was never as structured as it should have been.
SESSION(S): Stump The Chump
Chris Hostetter
Chris Hostetter is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation, and serves on the Lucene Project Management Committee. Prior to joining Lucid Imagination in 2010 to work full time on Solr development, he spent 11 years as a Principal Software Engineer for CNET Networks thinking about searching "structured data" that was never as structured as it should have been.
Christoph Goller
Intrafind AG | United States
I have more than 10 years of experience in the search industry and got a Ph.D in computer science from the Technical University of Munich where I worked in several research projects on artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural networks. Since 2002 I have been Director Research of Intrafind Software AG, a German company specialized on full-text search and text mining based on Lucene and Solr. I have been a Lucene committer since 2004. I have accompanied dozends of commercial projects using Lucene and Solr.
SESSION(S): Morphological Analysis and Named Entity Recognition for your Lucene/Solr Search Applications
Christoph Goller
Intrafind AG | United States
I have more than 10 years of experience in the search industry and got a Ph.D in computer science from the Technical University of Munich where I worked in several research projects on artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural networks. Since 2002 I have been Director Research of Intrafind Software AG, a German company specialized on full-text search and text mining based on Lucene and Solr. I have been a Lucene committer since 2004. I have accompanied dozends of commercial projects using Lucene and Solr.
Daniel Ling
Findwise | United States
I'm an Enterprise Search consultant at Findwise, a company specialized in delivering search solutions on several markets. Having worked with enterprise search for the last 5 years, I've been part of implementing search solutions in many industries and environments. Lately I've taking been more active in combining text analytics and big data analytics in the context of enterprise search, which I will discuss in my talk.
Daniel Ling
Findwise | United States
I'm an Enterprise Search consultant at Findwise, a company specialized in delivering search solutions on several markets. Having worked with enterprise search for the last 5 years, I've been part of implementing search solutions in many industries and environments. Lately I've taking been more active in combining text analytics and big data analytics in the context of enterprise search, which I will discuss in my talk.
SESSION(S): Text analytics in Enterprise Search
Dawid Weiss
Carrot Search s.c. | Poland
Dawid Weiss shares academic and industrial background: he is an associate professor at the Institute of Computing Science of Poznan University of Technology in Poland (PhD in Information Retrieval) and co-owns Carrot Search, a company that provides commercial services revolving around text processing, text mining and text clustering. In his spare time Dawid contributes to several open source projects, including Carrot2.org, reads books and passionately plays basketball with a bunch of his old friends. He lives in Poznan, Poland with his wive and two children.
SESSION(S): Randomized Continuous Testing: Solr and Lucene Use Case
Dawid Weiss
Dawid Weiss shares academic and industrial background: he is an associate professor at the Institute of Computing Science of Poznan University of Technology in Poland (PhD in Information Retrieval) and co-owns Carrot Search, a company that provides commercial services revolving around text processing, text mining and text clustering. In his spare time Dawid contributes to several open source projects, including Carrot2.org, reads books and passionately plays basketball with a bunch of his old friends. He lives in Poznan, Poland with his wife and two children.
Eric Baldeschweiler
CEO, Hortonworks | United States
Eric Baldeschwieler is the co-founder and CEO of Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop and provider of expert big data technical support and training services. Prior to co-founding Hortonworks, Eric served as VP Hadoop Software Engineering for Yahoo!, where he led the evolution of Apache Hadoop from a 20-node prototype to a 42,000 node service that is behind every click at Yahoo!. Eric also served as a technology leader for Inktomi's web service engine, which Yahoo! acquired in 2003.
SESSION(S): Architecting The Future of Big Data & Search
Eric Pugh
Fascinated by the "craft" of software development, Eric Pugh has been heavily involved in the open source world as a developer, committer, and user for the past 5 years. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and lately has been mulling over how we move from the read/write web to the read/write/share web. In biotech, financial services and defense IT, he has helped European and American companies develop coherent strategies for embracing open source software. As a speaker he has advocated the advantages of Agile practices in software development. He wears a "Test Obsessed" wristband, and recently wrote an article on Continuous Integration and Automated Testing for September 2010 issue of Automated Software Testing Magazine. Eric co-authored "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server", and recently gave a workshop on Solr at UberConf 2010. He blogs at http://www.opensourceconnections.com/blog
Eric Pugh
OpenSource Connections LLC | United States
Fascinated by the “craft” of software development, Eric Pugh has been heavily involved in the open source world as a developer, committer, and user for the past 5 years. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and lately has been mulling over how we move from the read/write web to the read/write/share web. In biotech, financial services and defense IT, he has helped European and American companies develop coherent strategies for embracing open source software. As a speaker he has advocated the advantages of Agile practices in software development. He wears a "Test Obsessed" wristband, and recently wrote an article on Continuous Integration and Automated Testing for September 2010 issue of Automated Software Testing Magazine. Eric co‐authored "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server", and recently gave a workshop on Solr at UberConf 2010. He blogs at http://www.opensourceconnections.com/blog/
SESSION(S): Better Search Engine Testing
Erick Erickson
Lucid Imagination | United States
Erick is a Solr/Lucene committer who has worked in the IT field for 30 years or so. He holds a MS from the University of Michigan and works for Lucid Imagination. He's envious of the kids these days whose workday isn't spent chasing down wild pointers in "C" like he had to when he started programming, and yearns for the days when the entire programming language was contained in a slim, trim, little book (K&R, 274 pages, small form-factor) rather than the shelf-and-a-half of 8 1/2" x 11" tomes that he has to deal with now.
SESSION(S): Solr on EC2
Fabrício Barth
Fabrício J. Barth: I am a Software Engineer, Researcher, and sometimes, scientist. My major interest is about how we can search and find useful and accurate information inside a lot of data. I have a PhD in Computer Engineering at the University of São Paulo. My PhD thesis was about documents and expert search in enterprises using machine learning. I have published many papers about information retrieval, knowledge management and machine learning. I have been using Solr, Lucene and Nutch technology since 2006 in several fields, like: local search, enterprise search and criminal record search. Nowadays, I am responsible for developing and managing a georeferenced data search engine at Apontador, Brazil.
Frank Scholten
JTeam | Netherlands
Frank is a Java developer at JTeam and he has a Msc. in Computer Science from University of Twente, with a Software Engineering major. He is also a Mahout user/contributor.
SESSION(S): Configuring Mahout Clustering Jobs
Frank Scholten
Frank is a Java developer at JTeam and he has a Msc. in Computer Science from University of Twente, with a Software Engineering major. He is also a Mahout user/contributor.
George Chitouras
EMC | United States
George Chitouras is a R&D director in the Data Computing / Greenplum Division of EMC Corporation. Prior to EMC, George worked on NLP and Text Analytics at SAP, Business Objects, and Inxight Software. George and his family live in the San Francisco Bay area of California.
SESSION(S): Solr + Greenplum = MPP Solr
Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade
Etsy.com | United States
Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade is a Software Engineer on the Search Team at Etsy.com, the world's marketplace for handmade and vintage goods. At Etsy, he focuses on Solr infrastructure, performance, geo-search, and the search user-experience. Prior to working at Etsy, Gio spent 4 years as an engineer at CapitalIQ, a leading financial data platform, where he was responsible for the maintenance, search-ability, and data-extraction of a 15 TB database of regulatory documents.
SESSION(S): Solr @ Etsy
Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade
Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade is a Software Engineer on the Search Team at Etsy.com, the world's marketplace for handmade and vintage goods. At Etsy, he focuses on Solr infrastructure, performance, geo-search, and the search user-experience. Prior to working at Etsy, Gio spent 4 years as an engineer at CapitalIQ, a leading financial data platform, where he was responsible for the maintenance, search-ability, and data-extraction of a 15 TB database of regulatory documents.
Grant Ingersoll
Lucid Imagination | United States
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.SESSION(S): Search + Big Data: It's (still) All About the User
Holger Keibel
Canoo Engineering AG | Switzerland
Holger Keibel is a specialist in language technology with more than 10 years of professional experience in academia and software companies. He is experienced with information retrieval challenges and large textual data sets. He has worked in several Scrum-based Software projects where his role usually is that of the Product Owner. As such, he has been involved in setting up several Solr-based solutions as remote services. Holger joined Canoo Engineering AG (Basel, Switzerland) in 2010. He has a degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Linguistics, and he speaks German, English and French. He has given talks at conferences on language technology and linguistics in Europe and the U.S.
SESSION(S): How to Improve the Quality of your Solr Results by Implementing the Right Word Analyzers
Ivan Provalov
Cengage Learning | United States
Ivan Provalov is a software developer and architect with over 15 years of professional experience in software architecture, design and development. He currently holds information architect position at Cengage Learning where he works on the search engine platform team. Ivan's professional interests are in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing, speech recognition and data mining.
SESSION(S): Relevance Improvements at Cengage for English and Non-English Content
Ivan Provalov
Ivan Provalov is a software developer and architect with over 15 years of professional experience in software architecture, design and development. He currently holds information architect position at Cengage Learning where he works on the search engine platform team. Ivan's professional interests are in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing, speech recognition and data mining.
James Alexander
Open University | United States
James Alexander is a developer on the Open University Digital Library. For the past two years, he has been working on the Access to Video Assets project, using Solr to power much of the discovery interface. Prior to that he was IT Manager at Community Channel, having worked at the British Library previously. His development work over the past two decades has been focused around the intersection of technology and graphics.
SESSION(S): Search, REST and Play! Video Discovery
James Alexander
James Alexander is a developer on the Open University Digital Library. For the past two years, he has been working on the Access to Video Assets project, using Solr to power much of the discovery interface. Prior to that he was IT Manager at Community Channel, having worked at the British Library previously. His development work over the past two decades has been focused around the intersection of technology and graphics.
Jan Hoydahl
Jan Høydahl is a Lucene/Solr committer, search entrepreneur & speaker based in Oslo, Norway. Starting with search at FAST in 2000, and later Lucene/Solr, he has 11 years of professional experience with enterprise search with the largest and most demanding deployments around the globe. He runs Cominvent AS, a consulting company specialized in high-end consulting, training and support for the Solr/Lucene ecosystem, and working with companies seeking to migrate from proprietary search engines to open source.
Jan Høydahl
Cominvent AS | Norway
Jan Høydahl is a Lucene/Solr committer, search entrepreneur & speaker based in Oslo, Norway. Starting with search @ FAST in 2000, and later Lucene/Solr, he has 11 years of professional experience with enterprise search with the largest and most demanding deployments around the globe. He runs Cominvent AS, a consulting company specialized in high-end consulting, training and support for the Solr/Lucene ecosystem. As many companies seek to migrate from proprietary search engines to open source search, Cominvent has specialized in such migrations, often bridging the feature gap by combining open source components.
SESSION(S): Improving Solr's Update Chain
Jeremy Bentley
Smartlogic | United States
Jeremy Bentley has 18 years experience in complex solution-based software company leadership, sales, marketing, operations and development. He is Founder and CEO of Smartlogic.
Educated in Britain he has business experience in Europe (8 yrs), Asia Pacific (3 yrs), America (4 yrs) and South Africa (3 yrs). As well as this rounded international experience he has a proven record of growing successful software companies, and in developing a customer-oriented entrepreneurial attitude within the teams that he leads. Prior to becoming CEO of Smartlogic, he was Managing Director of Microbank Software, a US software company that sold to Sungard Data Systems in 2000. Before Microbank he ran the 3rd party product business for BIS Banking Systems (now Misys).
SESSION(S): Providing a More Powerful Solr Search with Semaphore
Jeremy Bentley
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Smartlogic, Jeremy Bentley has 18 years experience in complex solution-based software company leadership, sales, marketing, operations and development. Educated in Britain he has business experience in Europe, Asia Pacific, America and South Africa. As well as this rounded international experience, he has a proven record of growing successful software companies, and in developing a customer-oriented entrepreneurial attitude within the teams that he leads. Prior to becoming CEO of Smartlogic, he was Managing Director of Microbank Software, a US software company that sold to Sungard Data Systems in 2000. Before Microbank he ran the 3rd party product business for BIS Banking Systems (now Misys).
Joan Codina
Barcelona Media – Centre d’Innovació | Spain
Joan Codina-Filbà is a senior researcher in Opinion Mining at Barcelona Media and a part-time lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University. For the last 4 years Joan has been integrating NLP tools with Solr to perform Opinion Mining and extract useful information from User Generated Content.
SESSION(S): Adapting Ajax-Solr to Compare Different Sets of Documents.
Joan Codina
Joan Codina-Filbà is a senior researcher in Opinion Mining at Barcelona Media and a part-time lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University. For the last 4 years Joan has been integrating NLP tools with Solr to perform Opinion Mining and extract useful information from User Generated Content.
Jon Gifford
Loggly | United States
I'm a long time user of Lucene (since late 2004) and more recently Solr (2009), mostly focused on large scale, near real time products (Technorati, Scout Labs, Loggly), usually involving interesting excursions into the lucene internals. Technorati, for example, had home-grown facets in 2005 and filters in 2006, and Scout had home-grown ExternalFileFields in 2007.
SESSION(S): Using SolrCloud, For Real!
Jon Gifford
I'm a long time user of Lucene (since late 2004) and more recently Solr (2009), mostly focused on large scale, near real time products (Technorati, Scout Labs, Loggly), usually involving interesting excursions into the lucene internals. Technorati, for example, had home-grown facets in 2005 and filters in 2006, and Scout had home-grown ExternalFileFields in 2007.
Karl Wright
Nokia, Inc. | United States
Karl Wright is the original developer and a principal committer of the Apache ManifoldCF project, a project undergoing incubation at ASF. He has extensive experience in content management, speech recognition, and compiler development, and he is the author of Borland's Turbo Assembler. Mr. Wright is also the author of the book ManifoldCF in Action, available from Manning Publishing. He holds computer science degrees from both M.I.T. and Stanford University, and currently works for Nokia, Inc.
SESSION(S): Securing Documents in Solr with Manifold CF
Marc Sturlese
Trovit | Spain
I am Marc Sturlese, backend engineer at Trovit. I have been working with Lucene and Solr for three years. In the last several months, I've been working with Hadoop, developing a solution that allows Trovit to grow without having to worry about scalability problems anymore. I have a degree in multimedia engineering by the Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle University, in Barcelona. I attended as speaker to the Lucene Eurocon 2010 which took place in Prague. I am also Hadoop developer, certified by Cloudera, since January 2011.
SESSION(S): Scaling Search at Trovit with Solr and Hadoop
Marc Sturlese
I am Marc Sturlese, backend engineer at Trovit. I have been working with Lucene and Solr for three years. In the last several months, I've been working with Hadoop, developing a solution that allows Trovit to grow without having to worry about scalability problems anymore.
I have a degree in multimedia engineering by the Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle University, in Barcelona. I attended as speaker to the Lucene Eurocon 2010 which took place in Prague.
I am also Hadoop developer, certified by Cloudera, since January 2011.
Mark Miller
Mark Miller is a Lucene/Solr committer, PMC member, and Apache Software Foundation member who has been dabbling with Lucene since 2006. He currently works for Lucid Imagination as an engineer/manager solving all kinds of fun programming problems.
Mark Miller
Lucid Imagination | United States
Mark Miller is a Lucene/Solr committer, PMC member, and Apache Software Foundation member who has been dabbling with Lucene since 2006. He currently works for Lucid Imagination as an engineer/manager solving all kinds of fun programming problems.
SESSION(S): Solr 4 Highlights
Michael Busch
Michael Busch is tech lead for search infrastructure at Twitter. Before this job he worked at IBM on Enterprise Search and eDiscovery applications.
Michael is a long time Lucene committer and PMC member and a recent Apache member.
Michael Busch
Twitter | United States
Michael Busch is tech lead for search infrastructure at Twitter. Before this job he worked at IBM on Enterprise Search and eDiscovery applications. Michael is a long time Lucene committer and PMC member and a recent Apache member.
SESSION(S): Realtime Search at Twitter
Michael McIntosh
TNR Global, LLC | United States
Michael McIntosh leads the technology development and innovation efforts for TNR's search engine and database development services. Michael brings more than 16 years of experience in large scale systems design and operation, online consumer product development, high volume transaction processing and engineering management. He has extensive experience developing, integrating and maintaining search technology solutions for companies such as FAST Search and Lycos. He spear-headed migration efforts from physical servers used for search engine clusters to cloud computing (Amazon) platform. Michael has worked with a number of Web 2.0 technologies, most recently developing a real-time Ajax-driven query keywords suggestion tool. He has hands on expertise with many tools, technologies and platforms including: Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Ajax, MySQL, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, and Unix/Linux.
SESSION(S): Enterprise Search: FAST ESP to Lucene Solr
Michael McIntosh
Michael McIntosh leads the technology development and innovation efforts for TNR's search engine and database development services. Michael brings more than 16 years of experience in large scale systems design and operation, online consumer product development, high volume transaction processing and engineering management. He has extensive experience developing, integrating and maintaining search technology solutions for companies such as FAST Search and Lycos. He spear-headed migration efforts from physical servers used for search engine clusters to cloud computing (Amazon) platform. Michael has worked with a number of Web 2.0 technologies, most recently developing a real-time Ajax-driven query keywords suggestion tool. He has hands on expertise with many tools, technologies and platforms including: Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Ajax, MySQL, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, and Unix/Linux.
Mikhail Khludnev
Grid Dynamics Consulting Services | United States
Mikhail is a developer working one one of the leading US retail sites, focusing on highly loaded product catalog with faceted navigation. Top interests: Information Retrieval and In-Memory Data/Computational Grids.
SESSION(S): Navigating Subdocuments with Solr
Nicola Provenzano
Engineer graduated from University of Pisa in computer science; since 2003 working on companies of the Bassilichi group for WEB Content Management and Retrieval solutions based on open source code. Currently involved on development for digital library archiving solutions, as technical project leader for the text digitization and retrieval infrastructures, implemented for the on-line historical digital archive of the Italian newspaper La Stampa (http://www.archiviolastampa.it/ )
SESSION(S): Searching in more than 140 years newspaper articles
Otis Gospodnetic
Sematext International | United States
Otis Gospodnetić is a coauthor of Lucene in Action (1st and 2nd edition). He has been involved with Lucene since 2000 and Solr since 2006. He is also a member of Nutch, and Mahout development teams, as well as Lucene Project Management Committee. Otis is an Apache Software Foundation member and the founder of Sematext, a software development and consulting company focused on Search & Analytics using Lucene, Solr, Elastic Search, Nutch, Hadoop, HBase, Flume, Mahout, and other open-source technologies to serve customers world-wide.
SESSION(S): Search Analytics: Business Value & BigData NoSQL Backend
SESSION(S): Solr performance monitoring
Otis Gospodnetic
Otis Gospodnetić is a coauthor of Lucene in Action (1st and 2nd edition). He has been involved with Lucene since 2000 and Solr since 2006. He is also a member of Nutch, and Mahout development teams, as well as Lucene Project Management Committee. Otis is an Apache Software Foundation member and the founder of Sematext, a software development and consulting company focused on Search & Analytics using Lucene, Solr, Elastic Search, Nutch, Hadoop, HBase, Flume, Mahout, and other open-source technologies to serve customers world-wide.
Rafal Kuc
Solr.pl | Poland
I'm a developer, architect and mostly Lucene and Solr consultant, co-founder of http://solr.pl site where I publish materials and tutorials about Apache Solr. In addition I'm an author of the to be published "Solr 3.1 cookbook" (publication date July 2011 from Packt Publishing). I also hold the MSc of Computer Science (with first class honours) from Bialystok Technical University. In my work I'm right now mainly focused on the development of software with the use of Lucene, Solr, Elastic Search, Mahout and Hadoop.
SESSION(S): Understanding and Visualising Solr 'explain' Information
Rishi Easwaran
AOL | United States
Rishi Easwaran is a senior software engineer working with the AOL mail team since 2008. Initially, his role was geared towards the mail side and is still is, but for the past couple of years he has been the developer working with a couple of AOL's in-house SOLR committers, collaborating on re-architecture efforts. Rishi has close working experience with Solr and is the scrum master for his team.
Rishi Easwaran
I am a senior software engineer working with the AOL mail team since 2008. Initially, my role was geared towards the mail side and is still is, but for the past couple of years I have been the developer working with couple of in-house SOLR committers, towards our re-architecture efforts. I have close working experience with Solr. I am the scrum master of my team.
Robert Muir
Lucid Imagination | United States
Robert Muir is a Lucene/Solr Committer and PMC Member, and a Senior Staff Engineer at Lucid Imagination.
SESSION(S): Improved Search with Lucene 4
Robert Muir
Uwe is committer and PMC member of Apache Lucene and Solr. His main focus is on development of Lucene Java. He implemented fast numerical search and is maintaining the new attribute-based text analysis API. He studied Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and works as managing director for SD DataSolutions GmbH in Bremen, Germany, a company that provides consulting and support for Apache Lucene and Solr. A primary customer of his company is “PANGAEA – Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data” where he implemented the portal's geo-spatial retrieval functions with Lucene Java. Uwe had talks about Lucene at various international conferences like the previous Lucene Revolution, ApacheCon EU/US, Lucene Eurocon, Berlin Buzzwords and various local meetups.
Robin Bramley
Robin Bramley is a hands-on Senior Architect at Ixxus, a UK based Lucid Imagination partner and an Alfresco Platinum partner. Robin’s Lucene experience spans 5+ years, directly and through projects such as Nutch, Solr, Compass::GPS and within products like Alfresco. As Lead Architect he designed the scalable, distributed indexing and search architecture leveraging Solr for Virgin Money Giving (medal winning project in the British Computer Society 2010 awards).
Robin writes for GroovyMag, is a DZone 'Most Valuable Blogger' and has had an article re-published in the Lucene-Solr zone, http://www.dzone.com/mz/solr-lucene . Robin presented on Continuous Integration at the London Groovy & Grails User Group.
Robin Bramley
Ixxus | United Kingdom
Robin Bramley is a hands-on Senior Architect at Ixxus, a UK based Lucid Imagination partner and an Alfresco Platinum partner. Robin's Lucene experience spans 5+ years, directly and through projects such as Nutch, Solr, Compass::GPS and within products like Alfresco. As Lead Architect he designed the scalable, distributed indexing and search architecture leveraging Solr for Virgin Money Giving (medal winning project in the British Computer Society 2010 awards). Robin writes for GroovyMag, is a DZone 'Most Valuable Blogger' and has had an article re-published in the Lucene-Solr zone, http://www.dzone.com/mz/solr-lucene . Robin presented on Continuous Integration at the London Groovy & Grails User Group.
SESSION(S): Solr at Virgin Money Giving
Simon Willnauer
JTeam / Apache Lucene | Germany
Simon is a core committer, PMC member as well as the PMC Chair of Apache Lucene. During the last couple of years he worked on design and implementation of scalable software systems and search infrastructure. He studied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciene Berlin. Currently, he works as a fulltime Lucene & Solr hacker and is a co-founder of the "BerlinBuzzwords" conference on Scalability of June 2010 and June 2011 in Berlin (Germany).
SESSION(S): Lucene Today, Tomorrow and Beyond
Simon Willnauer
Simon is a core committer, PMC member as well as the PMC Chair of Apache Lucene. During the last couple of years he worked on design and implementation of scalable software systems and search infrastructure.
He studied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciene Berlin. Currently, he works as a fulltime Lucene & Solr hacker and is a co-founder of the "BerlinBuzzwords" conference on Scalability of June 2010 and June 2011 in Berlin (Germany).
Steve Kearns
Basis Technology | United States
Steve is the product manager for the Rosette Platform, which is is the world's most widely used component library for multilingual text retrieval and analysis. Prior to Basis Technology, Steve worked at BBN Technologies where he worked on the Broadcast and Web Monitoring Systems, which capture and extract open-source intelligence from live television and internet news websites. He has experience in information visualization, distributed systems architecture and received his MS in Information Technology and BS in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University. He has also spoken at the Apache Lucene EuroCon 2010 in Prague, Lucene Revolution 2010 in Boston, and Lucene Revolution 2011 in San Francisco.
SESSION(S): Multilingual Search and Text Analytics with Solr
Steve Kearns
Steve is the product manager for the Rosette Platform, which is is the world's most widely used component library for multilingual text retrieval and analysis. Prior to Basis Technology, Steve worked at BBN Technologies where he worked on the Broadcast and Web Monitoring Systems, which capture and extract open-source intelligence from live television and internet news websites. He has experience in information visualization, distributed systems architecture and received his MS in Information Technology and BS in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University. He has also spoken at the Apache Lucene EuroCon 2010 in Prague, the Lucene Revolution 2010 in Boston, and the Lucene Revolution 2011 in San Francisco.
Teun Duynstee
Funda | Netherlands
Teun carries 15 years of developer experience on the Microsoft platform, but has never been afraid to look over the fence. Currently he works as the Software Architect and manager of the dev team at funda.nl. Combining the strengths of the Microsoft platform (great dev tools, the base class library, C#, ASP.NET MVC) with the best open source tools (memcached, Subversion, Solr) has been a theme in the last years.
SESSION(S): Solr on Windows: Does it Work? Does it Scale?
Teun Duynstee
Teun carries 15 years of developer experience on the Microsoft platform, but has never been afraid to look over the fence. Currently he works as the Software Architect and manager of the dev team at funda.nl. Combining the strengths of the Microsoft platform (great dev tools, the base class library, C#, ASP.NET MVC) with the best open source tools (memcached, Subversion, Solr) has been a theme in the last years.
Tommaso Teofili
Sourcesense | Italy
I am a software engineer at Sourcesense and an ASF member. I've been studying and applying information extraction and natural language processing techniques on top of the UIMA framework as part of my graduation work while at college. As a Sourcesense employee I've been working on enterprise search solutions, particularly related to the Lucene/Solr ecosystem.
SESSION(S): Natural Language Search in Solr
Tommaso Teofili
I am a software engineer at Sourcesense and an ASF member. I've been studying and applying information extraction and natural language processing techniques on top of the UIMA framework as part of my graduation work while at college.
As a Sourcesense employee, I've been working on enterprise search solutions, particularly related to the Lucene/Solr ecosystem.
Torsten Koester
Torsten Köster is software-architect at smatch.com, the largest shopping search engine for fashion and lifestyle in Germany. smatch.com connects the direct-product-search with social-shopping components. The leveraging of 2 million products on the different portals (e.g. fashion24.de or yalook.com) is based an a REST-API backed by Apache Solr. Torsten Köster is a heavy Lucene and Solr user since 2008 and implemented different Java-based web portals and APIs based on Lucene/Solr. He spoke on refactorings at SE2007.
Torsten Koester
smatch.com/ Shopping24 | Germany
Torsten Köster is software-architect at smatch.com, the largest shopping search engine for fashion and lifestyle in Germany. smatch.com connects the direct-product-search with social-shopping components. The leveraging of 2 million products on the different portals (e.g. fashion24.de or yalook.com) is based an a REST-API backed by Apache Solr. Torsten Köster is a heavy Lucene and Solr user since 2008 and implemented different Java-based web portals and APIs based on Lucene/Solr. He spoke on refactorings at SE2007.
SESSION(S): Architectural Lessons Learned from Refactoring a Solr-Based API Application
Tyler Tate
Tyler Tate leads UX at TwigKit where he has helped non-profits, government organizations, and corporations build superb search experiences. Tyler also organizes the Enterprise Search London meetup and in the past designed large web applications including a CRM and CMS. Tyler has written for a number of online publications including A List Apart, Smashing Magazine, and Boxes & Arrows. He currently lives in London with his wife, Ruth, and 2-year old son, Galileo.
Tyler Tate
TwigKit | United States
Tyler Tate leads UX at TwigKit where he has helped non-profits, government organizations, and corporations build superb search experiences. Tyler also organizes the Enterprise Search London meetup and in the past designed large web applications including a CRM and CMS. Tyler has written for a number of online publications including A List Apart, Smashing Magazine, and Boxes & Arrows. He currently lives in London with his wife, Ruth, and 2-year old son, Galileo.
SESSION(S): Designing Mobile Search
Uwe Schindler
Uwe is committer and PMC member of Apache Lucene and Solr. His main focus is on development of Lucene Java. He implemented fast numerical search and is maintaining the new attribute-based text analysis API. He studied Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and works as managing director for SD DataSolutions GmbH in Bremen, Germany, a company that provides consulting and support for Apache Lucene and Solr. A primary customer of his company is “PANGAEA – Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data” where he implemented the portal's geo-spatial retrieval functions with Lucene Java. Uwe had talks about Lucene at various international conferences like the previous Lucene Revolution, ApacheCon EU/US, Lucene Eurocon, Berlin Buzzwords and various local meetups.
Uwe Schindler
SD DataSolutions GmbH | Germany
Uwe is committer and PMC member of Apache Lucene and Solr. His main focus is on development of Lucene Java. He implemented fast numerical search and is maintaining the new attribute-based text analysis API. He studied Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and works as managing director for SD DataSolutions GmbH in Bremen, Germany, a company that provides consulting and support for Apache Lucene and Solr. A primary customer of his company is “PANGAEA – Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data” where he implemented the portal's geo-spatial retrieval functions with Lucene Java. Uwe has delivered talks about Lucene at various international conferences like the previous Lucene Revolution, ApacheCon EU/US, Lucene Eurocon, Berlin Buzzwords and various local meetups.
SESSION(S): Heavy Committing: Flexible Indexing in Lucene 4
SESSION(S): Java 7 and Lucene: the story behind the story
Yonik Seeley
Lucid Imagination | United States
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.
SESSION(S): The Many Facets of Apache Solr
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.