Welcome, Kaival!
> On Dec 19, 2025, at 08:10, Patrick Zhai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Congrats and welcome!
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 15:51 Anshum Gupta <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Congratulations and welcome, Kaival!
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM Kaival Parikh <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[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]
>>> <mailto:[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
