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 >>>> >>>
