Congrats Amrit with new chapter:)
On Fri, 13 Nov 2026 at 21:42, Amrit Sarkar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
