Pierre Salagnac
Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce
Greater Grenoble Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolPierre Salagnac is a Principal Software Engineer with over 15 years of deep expertise in enterprise search and distributed systems, currently shaping search architecture and performance at Salesforce from Grenoble. He is a Java specialist who routinely optimizes memory, multithreading, native integrations and profiling to squeeze production performance from large-scale search platforms like Apache Solr. His career spans hands-on product development, support and architecture across EMC Documentum and Salesforce, and he now contributes directly to the Apache Solr project as a committer. Known for pairing pragmatic engineering with system-level insight, he brings a rare combination of low-level Java mastery and product-focused delivery to complex search and analytics challenges.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur/Master at Polytech'Grenoble, Softwares, Computer networking, Distributed systems, Ingénieur/Master at Polytech'Grenoble, Softwares, Computer networking, Distributed systems at Polytech GrenobleDUT, Computer Science, DUT, Computer Science at IUT2 Grenoble
English, French
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Github Skills (21)
lucene10
search-engine10
nosql10
linux10
information-retrieval10
apache10
solr10
java10
elasticsearch10
backend10
amazon8
jenkins6
cp6
macos6
absolute-path6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
psalagnac/solr
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Apache Solr open-source search software
Contributions:63 pushes, 87 branches in 3 years 11 months
solrapachesearch-engineelasticsearchapache-solr
apache/solr
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Apache Solr open-source search software
Contributions:56 reviews, 38 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 11 months
nosqlsolrapachesearch-enginebackend
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