Grant Ingersoll

Current

Founder, Mahout Machine Learning Project at Apache Software Foundation
Member at Apache Software Foundation
Committer on Apache Solr at Apache Software Foundation

Principal at Lucid Imagination
Lucene PMC Member at Apache Software Foundation
Author at Independent Contractor (Self-employed)
Committer on Lucene Java at Apache Software Foundation

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Past

Senior Software Engineer at Center For Natural Language Processing
Senior Software Engineer at PROMERGENT
Senior Systems Engineer at MNIS-TextWise Labs

Senior Software Engineer at TextWise
Summer Intern at Northeast Parallel Architectures Center

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Education

Syracuse University
Amherst College

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Industry

Computer Software

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Grant Ingersoll’s Summary

I am a founder of Lucid Imagination and long time software engineer. I am a committer on the Apache Lucene Java, Solr and Mahout projects, a Lucene PMC member and an Apache Software Foundation Member. I have been programming for 11+ years and love the small company experience, as it is often a chance to wear many hats, ranging from project management to research to hard core development. I am the author of the "Search Smarter with Apache Solr" series at IBM developerWorks (see http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=apache+solr)

I am mostly interested in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing (NLP) topics like search, text categorization, document summarization, etc. I started my career doing parallel/distributed electromagnetics simulations, did a few years in configuration management, but have spent most of my time working on NLP topics. I mostly work in Java, but have done a fair amount of Perl and C++ in my past. I wish I had more time to spend learning Ruby, as the basics that I have explored look really interesting.

In my spare time, I take my son to sports and other things. I like hiking, photography and fly-fishing. I also manage to swim-bike-run on a regular basis. During the winter, I try to get to Carolina Hurricanes game at least once a month.

Grant Ingersoll’s Specialties:

Information Retrieval, machine learning, and question answering. Java programming. Lucene, Solr, Hadoop, Nutch, Mahout.

Grant Ingersoll’s Experience

Founder, Mahout Machine Learning Project

Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Co-creator of Mahout machine learning project. The goal of Mahout is to create scalable, Apache licensed machine learning algorithms in a variety of areas, including, but not limited to: clustering, classification and categorization, feature reduction, summarization, sentiment analysis and graph importance.

http://lucene.apache.org/mahout
Member

Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Committer on Apache Solr

Apache Software Foundation

(Computer Software industry)

2008 — Present (1 year)

Create and review patches, plan changes, do releases.
Principal

Lucid Imagination

(Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)

Lucid Imagination: Offers support, training, value-add software, and consulting for Lucene/Solr.
The team includes Erik Hatcher, Grant Ingersoll, Marc Krellenstein and Yonik Seeley, Mark Miller and Sami Siren.
Lucene PMC Member

Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Author
Independent Contractor (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Author
Committer on Lucene Java

Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Committer on the Apache Lucene Java project.
Senior Software Engineer

Center For Natural Language Processing

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2004 — August 2007 (3 years 6 months)
Senior Software Engineer

PROMERGENT

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 8 months)

Senior Java Developer on configuration management software products.
Senior Systems Engineer

MNIS-TextWise Labs

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1999 — March 2001 (2 years 3 months)

Worked on a cross language Information Retrieval product called CINDOR. Worked in Java, C++, Perl.
Senior Software Engineer

TextWise

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1999 — March 2001 (2 years 3 months)

Same as MNIS-Textwise Labs. Development of cross language search application.
Summer Intern

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1995 — August 1995 (3 months)

Summer internship in parallel computing architectures, programming, etc.

Grant Ingersoll’s Education

Syracuse University

MS , Computer Science , 1996 — 2000
Amherst College

BA , Math, Computer Science , 1992 — 1996

Activities and Societies:

Men's Varsity Ice Hockey