Anshum Gupta
PMC Member - Apache Incubator
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAnshum Gupta is a search-engine expert and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling distributed search systems, currently focused on SolrCloud at Apple. A long-time Apache Lucene/Solr committer and PMC member who has served as Vice President of Apache Lucene, he blends deep open-source stewardship with product-grade engineering. His career spans foundational search roles at Amazon/A9, Lucidworks, IBM Watson Search and founding-region search architecture in India, giving him rare end-to-end expertise from algorithm design to large-scale production deployments. He also organizes community-facing events (track chair at ApacheCon and Berlin Buzzwords) and mentors open-source contributors, reflecting a commitment to growing the search ecosystem beyond code.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Manav Sthali SchoolBhatnagar International SchoolB.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
api10
zookeeper10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
java10
devops9
multithreading9
solr9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/lucene
Mar 2021 - Sep 2025
Apache Lucene open-source search software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 comment in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Anshum contributed to back-end code related to Solr Cloud collection management, including improvements to the REQUESTSTATUS API, and also enhanced the API for managing replicas and shards in the distributed environment. They implemented enhancements such as support for setting various core properties during collection creation. The user also focused on code and test improvements to the Overseer system, increasing its multithreading capabilities, and refactoring the SolrDispatchFilter.
lucenesearchnosqljavabackend
anshumg/solr-operator
Jan 2021 - Apr 2024
A Kubernetes Operator for deploying and managing clouds of Apache Solr instances.
Contributions:8 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 3 months
deployinginstancessolrapacheoperator
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