Thanks for the honor to join such a talented group! Brief Bio: I started as a Meteorology major in undergrad. After the Meteorology program bored me with colored pencils and paper maps (but rocking a FORTRAN class) I switched to Computer Science. I received a CS Bachelor's and Master's focused on Computer Vision. Interestingly I was first exposed to Lucene/Solr in 2006 while working on a proprietary Remote Geospatial Imaging System. After a "fun" detour through the land of Oracle Spatial integration and MongoDB and Accumulo core development I finished a PhD in GIS focused on high dimension spatial Indexing. With sights set on working with the open source community I joined Elasticsearch 1 year ago this November which brings me here. I currently live in Dallas, TX with my Wife, 3 Kids, and a Dog and when my face is not behind a monitor I plant it either behind a drum kit, on a hockey rink, or in the park with the family.
I look forward to continuing to virtually work with many of you and hope to meet many at conferences and meetups. Thanks again! - Nick On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Michael McCandless < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm pleased to announce that Nick Knize has accepted the PMC's > invitation to become a committer. > > Nick, it's tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio / > origin story, explaining how you arrived here. > > Your handle "nknize" has already added to the “lucene" LDAP group, so > you now have commit privileges. > > Please celebrate this rite of passage, and confirm that the right > karma has in fact enabled, by embarking on the challenge of adding > yourself to the committers section of the Who We Are page on the > website: http://lucene.apache.org/whoweare.html (use the ASF CMS > bookmarklet > at the bottom of the page here: https://cms.apache.org/#bookmark - > more info here http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html). > > Congratulations and welcome! > > Mike McCandless > > http://blog.mikemccandless.com >
