Michael Sokolov
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Sokolov is a Principal Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable search and content systems, currently driving search and voice-device efforts at Amazon from Newton, MA. He has a deep track record leading search engineering teams and platforms—from Safari Books Online’s relevance and recommendation systems to high-throughput indexing for academic publishers—combining hands-on coding, architecture, and ML-driven relevance improvements. An active Apache Lucene committer, he has made targeted back-end contributions that improve code quality and Japanese text analysis tooling in one of the most influential open-source search libraries. Educated at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Physics, he pairs research-minded problem solving with pragmatic production delivery, and outside work pursues interests in solar power and pecan pie.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Media Lab MS, Media Lab MS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBA Physics, BA Physics at Harvard University
English, French
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Github Skills (9)
lucene10
unit-testing10
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
apidoc9
api9
code-optimization9
search-engine9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
msokolov/lucene-solr
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
Mirror of Apache Lucene + Solr
Contributions:3 commits, 73 pushes, 56 branches in 1 year 10 months
solrapachelucenejavaapache-lucene
msokolov/DogWord
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:58 commits, 20 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
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