Edd Grant is a freelance software engineer who has been building software professionally since 2003. He is passionate about designing first-class, maintainable systems by leveraging agile and TDD principles and has helped his clients adopt and excel at these practices.
Edd is an experienced implementor of cloud-scale web applications and services, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation. As an open source advocate, he has helped many clients take advantage of a diverse range of such products.
Edd has a website, which he updates when he gets the time (http://www.eddgrant.com), and has a passion for mountain biking and tea.
Aamir Hussain is an experienced customer- and business-focused technology leader with rich hands-on engineering, business and management experience. He has over 6 years of experience in software engineering and complex systems design with focus on the Cloud software architecture and design, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), monitoring and tools infrastructure, network design, and data center operations.
Starting the journey of his career from the world's most disturbed and heavily militarized zone, Aamir had also been honored and awarded multiple times in the application development programs conducted by Health2con and WHO in USA. He is currently working with one of India's largest e-commerce logistics company (Delhivery) as a senior architect.
Aamir had also managed to get his name on multiple books of Apache Solr and Python published by Packt Publishing.
Dmitry Kan leads the search technology development at AlphaSense, the one-stop financial search engine company. In parallel, he is the founder and CEO of the language intelligence company SemanticAnalyzer. Dmitry enjoys building and blogging about software, in particular, search (Solr/Lucene), machine learning (sentiment detection and machine translation), and tools that make a programmer's life easier. You can find his blogs at dmitrykan.blogspot.com and semanticanalyzer.info/blog. He developed his fully blown search engine back in 2003 as a university project. The main achievements were beating MySQL full-text search engine in speed by over 5 million records. This is when he introduced himself to the world of skip lists and balanced hash tables. In 2010, Dmitry learned about Lucene and Solr, and since then, he has been an active community member, occasionally taking part (and winning!) in the famous Stump the Chump sessions. Dmitry holds a PhD in CS from the Saint Petersburg State University (Russia) and a master's degree in CS from the University of Kuopio (Finland). In his free time, Dmitry enjoys answering questions on Stack Overflow, building models on kaggle, and cycling.
He is the maintainer and developer of Lucene Luke, which can be found at https://github.com/dmitrykey/luke. You can reach him on Twitter at twitter.com/dmitrykan.