Simon Willnauer

Founder & Tech lead Elasticsearch

2012 - Current

We are the company behind elasticsearch, the innovative and advanced open source distributed search engine. Founded in 2012 by the people behind elasticsearch and Apache Lucene, in order to support the ever-growing user base. elasticsearch is rapidly becoming the world’s most popular open source search solution. Given the maturity it has reached, usage in production environments is resulting in a high demand for a reliable and scalable support offering and professional services.

Member

2011

Lucene Core Commiter and PMC Member

2006

Lucene is a popular Open Source search library that is very widely used. -- http://lucene.apache.org/java/

Vice President Apache Lucene

2011 - 2012

Conference Co-Founder

2010

Co-Founder, Organizer & Speaker

Freelancer

2009 - 2016

System Architect

2009 - 2009

Software Engineer

2007 - 2009

High Security Enterprise Systems Detailed technical threat analysis of complex systems Reverse engineering of application and kernel level code for various common operating systems and platforms Source code audits for security vulnerabilities in software in various programming languages and on various platforms Company run by Felix 'FX' Lindner

Consulting db4objects

2007 - 2007

db4objects - consulting, Google Android and fulltext-search related topics

Software Engineering Intern

2007 - 2007

Open Source Program Office

Software Developer

2007 - 2007

High Security Enterprise Systems Detailed technical threat analysis of complex systems Reverse engineering of application and kernel level code for various common operating systems and platforms Source code audits for security vulnerabilities in software in various programming languages and on various platforms Company run by Felix 'FX' Lindner

Software Developer

2005 - 2006

Part time junior developer backend, persistence Layer, Java 2 EE Systems, search engines (Lucene)