Cassandra Targett
Lucene Solr PMC at The Apache Software Foundation
Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCassandra Targett is an engineering leader and search specialist with over a decade of experience building search-centric products and teams, most recently serving as VP of Engineering at Lucidworks and a long-time Lucene/Solr committer and PMC member. She combines hands-on product development, release and documentation management with customer-facing training and support, and chaired the Lucene PMC in 2019–2020. Trained in library and information science with an MS focused on information retrieval, she uniquely bridges classical bibliographic and taxonomy expertise with modern search engineering and open-source governance. Based in Santa Rosa Beach, FL, she has a track record of turning complex IR requirements into production systems and clear documentation. A less obvious strength is her early work managing bibliographic/rights databases and automatic classification, which gives her practical metadata insight that informs search relevance and product design.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Literature, BA, Literature at Bard CollegeMS, Library and Information Science, MS, Library and Information Science at Simmons University
Github Skills (11)
technical-writing10
html10
css10
documentations10
solr10
documentation10
lucene9
api-documentation9
javascripts8
javascript8
searching8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lucidworks/storm-solr
Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
Storm / Solr Integration
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 6 months
javastormsolr-integrationsolr
ctargett/targettstory-blog
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
Personal blog about my family's story
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
reactnextjsjekyll
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