Andre Hazelwood is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 15 years of hands-on engineering and product experience, who has led CI Radar since its founding to deliver web-based competitive intelligence that drives revenue, reduces costs, and mitigates risk. He blends deep web architecture expertise from long tenures across media and enterprise firms with practical R&D experience, building tools that uncover competitor strategies, sales opportunities, and operational vulnerabilities. A pragmatic back-end engineer, Andre has contributed meaningful enhancements to the SolrNet .NET client—improving connection flexibility, timeouts, query options, and Solr core management—demonstrating a focus on scalable, maintainable search infrastructure. Based in Roswell, GA and grounded in a liberal arts education from Emory, he pairs strategic product vision with low-level systems work and an eye for translating competitive data into actionable business outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
AA, AA at Oxford College of Emory University
BA Political Science and Environmental Science, BA Political Science and Environmental Science at Emory University
Contributions summary:Andre primarily contributed to enhancing the SolrNet .NET client library. Their work included adding features like changing the Solr connection on the fly, adjusting connection timeouts, and incorporating query options. They also implemented support for SolrCore operations, including create, reload, alias, swap, and unload functionalities. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the library's flexibility, expanding its feature set, and integrating it with Solr's core management capabilities.
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