Welcome Christos! From: dev@solr.apache.org At: 10/19/24 11:52:22 UTC+1:00To: dev@solr.apache.org Subject: Re: Welcome Christos Malliaridis as Solr Committer
Hello everyone, It's an honor to be invited and now also be officially part of the Solr and Apache team. Thank you very much for the warm welcome. Since I'm often asked how I found my way to the Solr project, I think I'll introduce myself by telling that story. I have started my career in the mobile app development sector and focused a lot on frontend development and UI/UX. Thanks to my curiosity and love for software development, I expanded my knowledge to include entire systems and various frameworks. At some point I ended up concepting a new social media platform for a specific industry and validated Solr as a possible technology for a couple use cases. During this phase I tried Solr's Admin UI and the java client for the first time. Thanks to a bug I found in the client's v2 API classes, I made my first contribution. You were very welcoming from the very first day, and this experience encouraged me to look into further contributions. I will try my best to share and pass down the same sense of warmth and encouragement to others as I continue contributing to the team and project. With sincere thanks, Christos Malliaridis
