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 >> >
