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 >
