Welcome, Simon!

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM Mikhail Khludnev <m...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Welcome Simon!
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM Simon Cooper 
> <simon.coo...@elastic.co.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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>
> --
> Sincerely yours
> Mikhail Khludnev

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