Alexandre Rafalovitch
Information Systems Officer
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAlexandre Rafalovitch is an experienced full-stack IT specialist and Information Systems Officer with over 25 years bridging enterprise, UN, and non-profit technology projects. He brings deep search expertise as an Apache Solr committer and author, plus hands-on Java and C# (.NET) development across Windows, Mac, and Linux environments. Known for pragmatic troubleshooting—using tools from Wireshark to dtrace—and for making complex systems approachable, he favours small projects that deliver outsized impact. Alexandre combines technical delivery with training, documentation and service-management practices (Prince2, ITIL, GTD), and has a long history of enabling language technology workflows for translators and terminologists. Fluent in Russian and English and comfortable with many languages and international teams, he often solves problems by connecting domain knowledge (linguistics/translation) with practical engineering.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at University of Technology Sydney
English, Russian, French, Spanish, Esperanto
Stackoverflow
9,749reputation
610kreached
578answers
4questions
lucene
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apache
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elasticsearch
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solr
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pdf
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indexing
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
solr10
searching10
frontend10
angular10
apache9
java9
ui-design9
indexing9
lucene9
css9
pdf9
javas9
backend9
msoffice9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
arafalov/solr-indexing-book
Feb 2013 - Nov 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 6 years 10 months
arafalov/git-to-solr
Jun 2014 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 1 month
git-historysolrindex
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