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 12 years of professional experience building search-centric products and leading teams from engineering through documentation, training, and customer support. As a long-time committer and PMC member for Apache Lucene and Solr—including a term as Lucene PMC Chair—she blends deep open-source governance experience with practical product delivery. She has led engineering organizations at Lucidworks, driving releases, documentation, and platform operations, and continues to influence direction at The Apache Software Foundation. Trained in library and information science, Cassandra uniquely combines information-retrieval theory and taxonomy expertise with hands-on systems and project management. Based in Santa Rosa Beach, FL, she’s known for turning scholarly IR perspectives into pragmatic, production-ready search solutions that scale.
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 (9)
html10
technical-writing10
css10
solr10
documentation10
lucene9
api-documentation9
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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