Re: Welcome Kaival Parikh as Lucene committer

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