Areek Zillur
Co-Founder & CTO at The Apache Software Foundation
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAreek Zillur is a Co-Founder and CTO with 12 years of engineering experience building production-grade healthcare software and distributed information-retrieval systems from Toronto. He combines hands-on systems design—especially in Information Retrieval, Lucene/Solr and distributed writes—with product leadership, steering Renssoft’s technical strategy and delivery. As an Apache Lucene committer and former Elasticsearch core engineer, he implemented high-performance completion suggesters and contributed a distributed Suggest Component used by many search deployments. His work spans low-level data structures, replication semantics and practical operational tooling, and he’s delivered developer and ops training across Canada. Known for translating research-grade algorithms into reliable production services, he also brings startup grit from multiple early-stage engineering roles and deep familiarity with algorithmic trading system patterns.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (8)
lucene10
javas10
information-retrieval10
java10
searching10
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
areek/elasticsearch
Jul 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:284 commits, 776 pushes, 95 branches in 2 years 10 months
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
areek/lucene-solr
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:48 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
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