Congrats and welcome! Alessandro :D On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:10 PM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome Alessandro! > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:25 PM Alessandro Benedetti <a.benede...@sease.io> > wrote: > >> Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! >> I already know most of you but for all the others here's my brief bio :) >> >> I am Italian (possibly the only other italian in addition to Tommaso) and >> I have been living in the UK for the last 7 years. >> I am currently based in London. >> I started working with Apache Solr back in 2010 (and a few months later >> with Apache Lucene), my first project was a search API that translated the >> Verity query language to Lucene syntax, at the time I was a junior software >> engineer with a background in Information Retrieval research at Roma3 >> university. >> Since then I have explored a lot of different use cases for Apache >> Lucene/Solr and I spent more and more time studying and working with the >> internals, across various companies and positions. >> My favourite projects in my career have been the design and >> implementation of a Semantic Search engine called Sensify (when I was >> working in a small and cohesive R&D team in Zaizi, with spanish friends and >> colleagues from Seville), the Apache Solr Learning To Rank plugin from >> Bloomberg (and integrations/applications) and the Rated Ranking Evaluator >> project (an Open Source library for Search Quality Evaluation we >> contributed back to the community). >> In 2016 I founded my own company, Sease where we try to build a bridge >> between Academia and the industry through Open Source software in the >> domain of Information Retrieval. >> >> As David mentioned my main areas of contribution in Apache Lucene/Solr >> have been the More Like This, the Learning To Rank plugin, Synonyms >> expansion and the Suggester component. >> I have a lot of ideas in my to do list, so stay tuned, we'll have a lot >> to discuss and innovate ! >> >> It is a pleasure to join this group and I am sure we'll do great things >> together :) >> >> Cheers >> >> >> -------------------------- >> Alessandro Benedetti >> Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director >> www.sease.io >> >> >> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 13:00, David Smiley <david.w.smi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest >>> Lucene/Solr committer! >>> >>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as >>> More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for >>> years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing >>> list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about >>> search. We look forward to his future contributions. >>> >>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself >>> with a brief bio, Alessandro. >>> >>> ~ David Smiley >>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >>> >>
