Hi everyone, Many thanks for the invite! I'm delighted to accept, and look forward to future Lucene development.
I live in Cambridge, UK, and work as a software engineer, mostly in Java and C#. My career has been working for various Cambridge-based software companies over the past 20 years, more recently at a Fintech startup where I developed their distributed processing engine. I joined Elastic ~3 years ago, and a few months ago started working on vector search, which lead me to Lucene. Having worked only for private companies for my career, I've always wanted to work on a full OSS project, and so I've been eagerly delving into Lucene and all that it can do. Outside work my main hobbies are playing music (playing the 'cello as a folk and session musician) and computer gaming, when my young family spares the time of course. SimonC On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 12:38, Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > Welcome! > > Mike McCandless > > http://blog.mikemccandless.com > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM Alan Woodward <romseyg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Congratulations and welcome! We need to start a Cambridge committers >> group :) >> >> - Alan >> >> > On 20 Jun 2025, at 08:06, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> > I'm pleased to announce that Simon Cooper has accepted the PMC's >> invitation to become a committer! >> > >> > Simon, it is a tradition that new committers introduce themselves with >> a brief bio. >> > >> > Thank you for your contributions and welcome to the community! >> > >> > Dawid >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >>
