Thank you to the Solr PMC for the invitation and the trust. David, thank you. Your reviews and guidance over the years have taught me a lot about how the project thinks. I'm grateful.
A special thank you to Varun Thacker, who introduced me to open-source contribution and to Solr years ago. A lot of what I know about working upstream started with him. A bit about me: I've worked with Solr since my first day as an engineer, about 11 years ago, across Snapdeal, Lucidworks, Tata CLiQ, Apple, 20+ consulting engagements, and now Salesforce. My focus has been SolrCloud internals, distributed systems correctness and query performance, and I plan to broaden that across the project. Outside Solr, I spend a lot of time on observability, and I'm writing a book on distributed tracing with Manning. I'm hoping some of that finds its way back into Solr. I'm based in the Greater Seattle Area, and when the sun allows, you'll find me out playing some sports. Looking forward to keeping at it with all of you. Amrit On Fri, Nov 13, 2026 at 9:12 AM David Smiley via dev <[email protected]> wrote: > The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Solr has invited Amrit > Sarkar to become a committer, and we are pleased to announce that Amrit has > accepted! > > Amrit, the tradition is for new committers to introduce themselves with a > brief bio. > > Congratulations and welcome! > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >
