Summary
Trevor M is a Lucene committer and senior engineer with a decade-plus career building high-performance search and distributed systems, currently working on dense vector search at Apache and MongoDB. He has deep practical experience moving large-scale search from research to production—spanning web-scale indexes at Google, search for scientific data at Benchling, and tight integration of vector indexing with databases. Trevor combines low-level index engineering (posting lists, index updates, retrieval) with operational ownership, monitoring, and on-call discipline. He runs a homelab and enjoys hardware hacking, which informs his pragmatic approach to systems performance and tooling. Notably, he has implemented specialized Lucene/Elasticsearch extensions (including a chemical structure search plugin) and helped convert ad-serving pipelines to continuous updates. Based in Albany, CA, he prefers non-crypto opportunities and signals unique communication preferences for outreach.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of Michigan