Welcome, Kaival! On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM 张超 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Welcome, Kaival! > > On Dec 19, 2025, at 08:10, Patrick Zhai <[email protected]> wrote: > > Congrats and welcome! > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 15:51 Anshum Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Congratulations and welcome, Kaival! >> >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM Kaival Parikh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thank you all for the warm welcome! >>> >>> It's an honor to join the Lucene project as a committer -- this >>> community has been super active and helpful, I learn something new with >>> each interaction here :) >>> >>> A bit about me: My name is Kaival Parikh, and I'm originally from >>> Mumbai, India. I work at Amazon on a Lucene-based search engine for its >>> e-commerce marketplace. >>> >>> I'm fascinated by the information retrieval space, the clever data >>> structures and algorithms that go behind indexing, matching and ranking >>> documents in a flexible way, and the amount of effort put in by Lucene >>> developers to expose these features in a safe, intuitive and performant way. >>> >>> I'm particularly interested in vector search, which has seen explosive >>> growth and adoption in recent times -- and all the synergies and challenges >>> of supporting vector search in a mature, full-fledged search engine library >>> like Lucene. >>> >>> Outside of work: I'm a (selective) foodie, love traveling and having new >>> adrenaline-fueled experiences, and watching a variety of shows and movies. >>> >>> Thanks again for this opportunity, looking forward to contributing and >>> growing with this community! >>> >>> Kaival >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM Vigya Sharma <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everyone, >>>> >>>> I'm pleased to announce that Kaival Parikh has accepted the PMC's >>>> invitation to become a committer! >>>> >>>> Kaival, it's a tradition that new committers introduce themselves with >>>> a brief bio. >>>> >>>> On behalf of the Lucene PMC, thank you for your contributions, >>>> congratulations, and welcome! >>>> >>>> Vigya >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> Anshum Gupta >> > > -- http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) https://a.co/d/b2sZLD9 (my fantasy fiction book)
