Congrats, Alessandro! -Trey
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:36 AM Ignacio Vera <iver...@gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome Alessandro! > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 3:21 PM Namgyu Kim <kng0...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >>>>> >>>>
