About Simon

Simon Willnauer is an Apache Lucene core committer (since 2006), a co-founder of ElasticSearch and an Apache Software Foundation Member

Simon has contributed to several other open source projects within and outside the Apache Software Foundation, and has led the design and implementation of numerous scalable software systems and search infrastructures.

A popular speaker at conferences in Germany, Europe and beyond, Simon is also the co-founder of the Berlin Buzzwords Conference.

Simon’s main interests are performance optimizations, Information Retrieval and non-blocking / wait-free concurrency.

Twitter: @s1m0nw