Hi all, Thanks a lot to the PMC for entrusting me this role!
% whoami I'm a hacker from Norway, soon to become 101000 summers old. Married to wonderful Hilde, living outside Oslo with our cat Rosåsi (meaning "grey" in Arabic). I love snowboarding, kayaking, travelling, working with immigrants and volunteering in my local church. Started my IT carreer at age 12 programming Basic on the C=64 while my brother was playing games. Then later 68000 assembly and C on the Amiga. Sold my first program around 1993, an AREXX script for NComm on Amiga, helping people save money placing ads faster on the national teletext service :) I've also programmed Turbo Pascal, C++, PLEX-C, ASA110, Python, PHP, Ruby, and even assembly for the HP-48 calculator :) Been a Solaris, Lunix and for the last 5 years Mac user. Fast forward to 1998 when I learnt Java and helped develop Ericsson's first IP telephony service way before JIT compilers etc. I became one of FAST's first Global Services consultants in 2000 in the days of AllTheWeb™ and before they even had an enterprise search product. The search engine consisted of a few C++ binaries; "findex" writing the index and "fsearch" searching it. Then came RealTimeSearch, FDS and finally ESP. After 5 years @ FAST I "committed" a software outsourcing startup for a few years before founding Cominvent to do full-time search consulting on FAST technology (or so I thought..). I played some with Lucene in 2006 but then picked up Solr in 2009, and now 95% of the business is on Solr/Lucene and 5% on FAST. What a change! I love Apache, Open source, the Apache License and the Lucene community. With more than a decade experience from Enterprise Search and well over 100 customer projects, I've learnt a thing or two which I'm now doing my best to share with my customers and the community. Now hopefully more of that will be as code. One of the first areas I'm hoping to help is UpdateChain related stuff as well as Norwegian/Nordic language support. http://no.linkedin.com/in/janhoy http://twitter.com/cominvent -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com On 13. juni 2011, at 16.43, Mark Miller wrote: > I'm happy to announce that the Lucene/Solr PMC has voted in Jan Høydahl as > our newest committer. > > Jan, if you don't mind, could you introduce yourself with a brief bio as has > become our tradition? > > Congratulations and welcome aboard! > > > - Mark Miller > lucidimagination.com > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
