Alan Hardy has spent over 20 years in the software industry with a breadth of experience in different businesses and environments, from multinationals to software startups and financial organizations, including global trading and exchanges. He started out as a developer on real-time, monitoring, and alerting systems before moving into packet-switching technology and financial data processing in C, C++, and Java-based environments. Alan now works for Elastic, where he gets to fully explore his data-wrangling passion, leading EMEA Solution Architecture.
Bharvi Dixit is an IT professional and an engineer with extensive experience of working on the search servers, NoSQL databases and cloud services. He holds a master's degree in computer science and is currently working with Sentieo, a USA-based financial data and equity research platform where he leads the overall platform and architecture of the company, spanning hundreds of servers. At Sentieo, he also plays a key role in the search and data team.
He is also the organizer of Delhi's Elasticsearch Meetup Group, where he speaks about Elasticsearch and Lucene and continuously building the community around these technologies.
Bharvi also works as a freelance Elasticsearch consultant and has helped more than half a dozen organizations adapt Elasticsearch to solve their complex search problems in different use cases, such as creating search solutions for big data-automated intelligence platforms in the area of counter-terrorism and risk management, as well as in other domains, such as recruitment, e-commerce, finance, social search, and log monitoring.
He has a keen interest in creating scalable backend platforms. His other areas of interest are search engineering, data analytics, and distributed computing. Java and Python are the primary languages in which he loves to write code, and he has also built proprietary software for consultancy firms.
In 2013, he started working on Lucene and Elasticsearch, and has authored two books on Elasticsearch, Elasticsearch Essentials and Mastering Elasticsearch 5.0, both published by Packt Publishing.
You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://in.linkedin.com/in/bharvidixit or can be followed on Twitter @d_bharvi.