Kristian Rickert
Gazebo Fellow at Gazebo Today
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKristian Rickert is a seasoned software architect and engineer with 15+ years building scalable search, backend and IoT-enabled products, currently serving as Gazebo Fellow in New York. He combines deep expertise in Java, Solr/Lucene, distributed systems and database design with a track record of cutting indexing times from hours to minutes and architecting enterprise search for banks and medical sites. As founder/CEO of Gazebo Today he turned a niche content idea into an IoT and AI-driven product portfolio, demonstrating both product vision and hands-on technical delivery. He’s consulted widely on search, messaging, devops and NLP, mentoring teams and codifying architectures that balance data integrity, performance and development cost. Beyond engineering, Kristian publishes technical writing, runs a photography business, and has a quirky focus on making everyday objects—yes, even gazebos—rigorously feature-first and delightfully useful.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
AS/AA English Math Computer Science, AS/AA English Math Computer Science at Triton Community CollegeBS Computer Science and Mathematics, BS Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Esperanto, c++, java, php, c#, logo, English
Stackoverflow
36reputation
438reached
2answers
1question
Github Skills (116)
controller10
backend10
protocol-buffers10
solr10
protobuf10
lucene10
java10
serialization10
rpc10
kotlin10
marshalling9
nosql9
avro9
micronaut9
duplicate-detection9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
krickert/IPAddressZipCodeStateCountryLuceneJavaSearch
Sep 2010 - Feb 2012
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 4 months
krickert/search_indexer
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
RAG search engine based on wikipedia
Contributions:714 PRs, 995 pushes, 52 branches in 2 years 4 months
duplicate-detectionwikipediawarcsearch-indexersearch
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