Paul Blanchaert
Consultant E-commerce Search And Enterprise Search at search-solutions.net
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolPaul Blanchaert is a seasoned consultant and technical architect with 11+ years focused on e-commerce and enterprise search, specializing in Solr, Elasticsearch and OpenSearch implementations. He combines deep Java-based engineering skills for distributed, high-availability systems with a strong background in statistics and a growing data science practice to improve search relevance and ROI. Paul has led cross‑border ERP and integration programs, acted as solutions architect for payment- and B2B-integration, and coached teams to raise delivery quality and performance. Known for translating business requirements into pragmatic, production-ready search and IR solutions, he also explores vector search and LLM-driven relevance to capture user intent beyond keyword matching. Based in the Ghent area, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor (bioscience engineering and industrial management) and hands‑on enterprise delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
ASO, ASO at Sint Hendriks DeinzeMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Bioscience Engineering: Agricultural Sciences, (magna cum laude), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioscience Engineering: Agricultural Sciences, (magna cum laude) at Ghent UniversityMaster of Science, Bedrijfsbeheer (Industrial Management), (cum laude), Master of Science, Bedrijfsbeheer (Industrial Management), (cum laude) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Dutch, French, English, German, Portuguese
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Github Skills (24)
lucene10
integrate10
solr10
java10
query-parser10
rewrite-rules10
microservices10
backend10
smui10
apache9
search-engine9
eip9
apache-camel9
information-retrieval9
preprocessor9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
search-companion/companion
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:49 commits, 47 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
search-solutions-net/solr
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
Apache Solr open-source search software
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
solrapachesearch-engineelasticsearchapache-solr
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