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Simon Willnauer

Founder & Lucene Hacker at Elastic, Founder @ BerlinBuzzwords Conference & Lucene Core Committer

Berlin Metropolitan Area

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  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

2012

  • Founder & Tech lead Elasticsearch

    2012

    We are the company behind elasticsearch, the innovative and advanced open source distributed search engine. Founded in 2012 by the people behind elasticsearch and Apache Lucene, in order to support the ever-growing user base. elasticsearch is rapidly becoming the world’s most popular open source search solution. Given the maturity it has reached, usage in production environments is resulting in a high demand for a reliable and scalable support offering and professional services.

  • Member

    2011

  • Lucene Core Commiter and PMC Member

    2006

    Lucene is a popular Open Source search library that is very widely used. -- http://lucene.apache.org/java/

  • Vice President Apache Lucene

    2011 - 2012

  • Conference Co-Founder

    2010

    Co-Founder, Organizer & Speaker

2009 - 2016

  • Freelancer

    2009 - 2016

  • System Architect

    2009 - 2009

2007 - 2009

  • Software Engineer

    2007 - 2009

    High Security Enterprise Systems Detailed technical threat analysis of complex systems Reverse engineering of application and kernel level code for various common operating systems and platforms Source code audits for security vulnerabilities in software in various programming languages and on various platforms Company run by Felix 'FX' Lindner

2007 - 2007

  • Consulting db4objects

    2007 - 2007

    db4objects - consulting, Google Android and fulltext-search related topics

2007 - 2007

  • Software Engineering Intern

    2007 - 2007

    Open Source Program Office

  • Software Developer

    2007 - 2007

    High Security Enterprise Systems Detailed technical threat analysis of complex systems Reverse engineering of application and kernel level code for various common operating systems and platforms Source code audits for security vulnerabilities in software in various programming languages and on various platforms Company run by Felix 'FX' Lindner

2005 - 2006

  • Software Developer

    2005 - 2006

    Part time junior developer backend, persistence Layer, Java 2 EE Systems, search engines (Lucene)