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 >
