Rahul Goswami
Principal Software Engineer II at The Apache Software Foundation
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolRahul Goswami is a Principal Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience specializing in large-scale search and data-processing systems, currently advancing search infrastructure at Commvault. He brings deep expertise in Apache Solr and Elasticsearch, having extended both with custom plugins and scalable indexing pipelines to support multi-terabyte enterprise workloads. Rahul pairs strong backend and distributed-systems skills in Java and Python with practical experience in Spark, SQL databases, AWS, and Linux automation. His work improved documentation search relevance by 90% (nDCG) and includes building recommender and query-suggestion systems that marry analytics with production search. An active Apache contributor and recent Solr committer, he combines open-source stewardship with hands-on engineering and a knack for quickly assessing new platforms’ trade-offs. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he mentors teams and translates complex requirements into robust, measurable search capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at University of Mumbai (Sardar Patel Institute of Technology)Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at George Mason University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
lucene10
search-engine10
nosql10
information-retrieval10
solr10
java10
elasticsearch10
backend10
apache9
parquet6
nlp6
opennlp6
schema6
morphological-analysis6
avro6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rahulgoswami/Whole-foods-and-Amazon-Fresh-delivery-slot-detector
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Detects open grocery slots on Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods and notifies (call and text) when a slot is available
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 days
slotswhole-foodsgroceryamazon-freshamazon
rahulgoswami/solr
Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:35 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 5 months
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