Thank you everyone for the warm welcome! Sorry for the delay in responding — writing this took me down memory lane.
A little about me... I live in northern Virginia and work as a Principal software engineer with Commvault on the search infrastructure team where I get to work with the guts of Solr on a daily basis. I love solving scale challenges, add capabilities that may not exist out-of-the-box and help make Solr do more with less. I have been a software engineer for over 13 years, and landed in the search domain about a decade ago. I picked up the internals of search working at Search Technologies (later acquired by Accenture), predominantly working with Elasticsearch (and some Solr) and under the mentorship of Derek Rodriguez (shoutout to you if you're seeing this Derek!) fell in love with the domain. Those initial years also made me realize the impact a good mentor can have and I have taken that as a learning with me to pay it forward as I progressed in my career. I joined Commvault thereafter and have been working closely with Solr for about 8 years now. It has been quite a journey, battle testing SolrCloud during the 7.x days to now exploring vector search on 9.x and solving a lot of interesting challenges along the way. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my 4 year old, traveling, reading books on personal finance and singing. Used to play the guitar and compete in singing competitions in my younger days, but before I knew it, the hustle and bustle of adult life took over. I absolutely love exploring local cafes and no place is far enough for a good latte! It’s an honor to work with all of you, and I look forward to future Solr development and the learnings along the way. Cheers, Rahul Goswami On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM Anshum Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations and welcome, Rahul! > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 9:42 AM Gus Heck <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Solr has invited Rahul > > Goswami to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that Rahul > > has accepted. > > > > Please join us in welcoming Rahul to their new role and > > responsiblity in our project community. > > > > Rahul, the tradition is that new committers introduce themselves with a > > brief bio. > > > > Gus Heck > > On behalf of the Solr PMC > > >
