Search and NLP Software Engineer; Author
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
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- Founder, Mahout Machine Learning Project at Apache Software Foundation
- Member 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
- Past
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- 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
- Education
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- Syracuse University
- Amherst College
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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 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
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Founder, Mahout Machine Learning Project
Apache Software Foundation
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
February 2008 — Present (7 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.
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Member
Apache Software Foundation
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2008 — Present (8 months)
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Principal
Lucid Imagination
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Lucid Imagination: Offers a Lucene/Solr based platform for building
applications (easy install and upgrades, GUI, extra tools). The product
includes business hours support (24 x 7 will be available soon). Support
contracts are also available for direct users of the open source version.
The founding team includes Erik Hatcher, Grant Ingersoll, Marc Krellenstein and Yonik Seeley. -
Lucene PMC Member
Apache Software Foundation
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
May 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
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Author
Independent Contractor (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Author
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Committer on Lucene Java
Apache Software Foundation
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Committer on the Apache Lucene Java project.
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Senior Software Engineer
Center For Natural Language Processing
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2004 — August 2007 (3 years 6 months)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Syracuse University
MS, Computer Science, 1996 — 2000
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Amherst College
BA, Math, Computer Science, 1992 — 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- Men's Varsity Ice Hockey
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Grant Ingersoll’s Interests:
fishing, hiking, photography, triathlon, Lucene
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ApacheCon - Apache Conference
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