Re: Welcome Simon Cooper as Lucene committer

Welcome Simon!

On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 13:50, Simon Cooper <[email protected]>
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 <
> [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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