Marvin Humphrey
Freelance Software Consultant at Rectangular Research
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarvin Humphrey is a seasoned freelance software consultant based in Washington with 20 years of experience specializing in full‑stack web development and open source search technologies. He founded Apache Lucy and served in multiple leadership roles at the Apache Software Foundation, including Director and V.P. positions where he led efforts to codify policies that helped the foundation scale. Marvin has a strong backend focus—search, recommendations, scalability and real‑time systems—gained through roles at Eventful, CBS Local Digital Media, and RetailOps. As a consultant he combines hands‑on engineering with mentoring and project stewardship, often supporting and extending open source search stacks. Trained originally in music composition at Northwestern, he brings a creative, systems‑level perspective to software design and developer community building.
20 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music, Theory and Composition, Bachelor of Music, Theory and Composition at Northwestern University
Github Skills (46)
apache10
java10
compiler10
rust10
rust-lang9
standard-library9
big-data9
wordpress-plugin9
crate9
rust-language9
garbage-collection8
allocator8
wordpress8
mach8
jlink8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gitpan/KinoSearch
Jan 2006 - Apr 2012
Contributions:56 commits in 6 years 3 months
apache/lucy-charmonizer
Jul 2006 - Oct 2014
Contributions:326 commits in 8 years 4 months
javaapachelucy
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