Tomas F
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTomas F is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently at Airbnb in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a long-standing Apache Lucene/Solr committer and PMC member who has contributed deep SolrJ and interval faceting enhancements to one of the most widely used open-source search libraries. His career includes senior backend roles at Apple and search-focused positions at A9 and LucidWorks, reflecting strong expertise in search infrastructure, Java, and large-scale services. Tomas blends open-source stewardship with production engineering, often surfacing nuanced fixes and test improvements that reduce long-term maintenance risk. Despite a primarily backend focus, he also brings teaching experience from the University of Buenos Aires, showing an aptitude for mentorship and knowledge transfer.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at University of Buenos Aires
Github Skills (8)
javas10
solr10
back-end-development10
java10
apidoc7
api7
data-structures6
data-structure6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tflobbe/lucene-solr-1
Feb 2016 - May 2021
Mirror of Apache Lucene + Solr
Contributions:10 PRs, 159 pushes, 85 branches in 5 years 3 months
solrapachelucenejavaapache-lucene
tflobbe/solrmeter
Jun 2010 - Mar 2018
Stress test tool for Apache Solr
Contributions:179 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 7 years 10 months
apache-solrstress-testapachesolr
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