Re: Welcome Simon Cooper as Lucene committer

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 <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Welcome!
>
> Mike McCandless
>
> http://blog.mikemccandless.com
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM Alan Woodward <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations and welcome!  We need to start a Cambridge committers
>> group :)
>>
>> - Alan
>>
>> > On 20 Jun 2025, at 08:06, Dawid Weiss <[email protected]> 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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