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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com> on 2014/07/23 21:44:58 UTC
Any Solr consultants available??
I occasionally get pinged by recruiters looking for Solr application developers... here’s the latest. If you are interested, either contact Jessica directly or reply to me and I’ll forward your reply.
Even if you don’t strictly meet all the requirements... they are having trouble finding... anyone. All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy.
Thanks.
-- Jack Krupansky
From: Jessica Feigin
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:36 PM
To: 'Jack Krupansky'
Subject: Thank you!
Hi Jack,
Thanks for your assistance, below is the Solr Consultant job description:
Our client, a hospitality Fortune 500 company are looking to update their platform to make accessing information easier for the franchisees. This is the first phase of the project which will take a few years. They want a hands on Solr consultant who has ideally worked in the search space. As you can imagine the company culture is great, everyone is really friendly and there is also an option to become permanent. They are looking for:
- 10+ years’ experience with Solr (Apache Lucene), HTML, XML, Java, Tomcat, JBoss, MySQL
- 5+ years’ experience implementing Solr builds of indexes, shards, and refined searches across semi-structured data sets to include architectural scaling
- Experience in developing a re-usable framework to support web site search; implement rich web site search, including the incorporation of metadata.
- Experienced in development using Java, Oracle, RedHat, Perl, shell, and clustering
- A strong understanding of Data analytics, algorithms, and large data structures
- Experienced in architectural design and resource planning for scaling Solr/Lucene capabilities.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
Jessica Feigin
Technical Recruiter
Technology Resource Management
30 Vreeland Rd., Florham Park, NJ 07932
Phone 973-377-0040 x 415, Fax 973-377-7064
Email: jessica@trmconsulting.com
Web site: www.trmconsulting.com
LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicafeigin
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Posted by Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com>.
Plenty of interesting ideas.
Another angle is helping companies set up a "center of excellence" for Solr
in their organization. Whether the center is dedicated in-house staff or an
outside vendor contract, the concept is still the same - giving people a
clear and direct place to go to get immediate, high-value support and
guidance. A rich guy's version of this mailing list!
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandre Rafalovitch
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 9:17 PM
To: solr-user
Subject: Re: Any Solr consultants available??
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com>
wrote:
> OTOH, how many people are there out there who want to become Solr
> consultants, but aren't already either doing it or at least already in the
> process of coming up to speed or maybe just not cut out for it?
Well, I would target two groups:
*) Startups that just realized they need search
*) People who want to become consultants and want speed track to that
("already in the process" can take quite a while).
For Startups, I would do a weeklong version of what I did with my
one-day Solr Masterclass.
*) Bring your own data, we teach you very specific process of
development-oriented setup (e.g. start from
https://github.com/arafalov/simplest-solr-config/blob/master/simplest-solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml
, teach rapid iterations, ways to affect data in Solr such as URP,
Custom Search Components, etc).
*) Then teach debugging.
*) Then SolrCloud.
*) Then maybe touch on BigData as many SAAS startups will hit that problem
*) Then going into production.
*) Then, send them out with a (paid-for and/or subscription) dedicated
discussion group where the mentor would continue answering questions
as they bubble up. etc.
*) And more
For consultants:
*) you teach them to understand which problems Solr is good for
*) you teach them how to explain Solr to others.
*) Teach them (or build for them) great Solr demos.
*) Give them unsolved-but-tractable project and assist them in making
those happen (e.g. build a Solr-backed real solr-consultants website,
testing Solr clients with latest Solr, testing upstream integration,
creating Solr feature demos for 3rd party products that have Solr
inside, etc)
*) Build them environments to quickly test their ideas, skills, etc.
*) Give them tools and tricks to quickly build online identity around
Solr (blogging tips, link to their articles to build SEO, GitHub
repos, etc)
*) Build a network where consultants can pass work to each other based
on geography
*) Get preferential deals with commercial Solr components suppliers,
so the consultants get things like UI components at reduced price or
extended trials or whatever
*) Dedicated discussion group
*) If they are in the solr-consultants directory, charge them
subscription fees but give them a dedicated discussion group where
they can talk but also ask for particular features (e.g. better
examples, demo repos, language support, deals, commonly useful
components like the split/join filters, etc). Use those as projects to
drive next batch of developers.
*) Reach out to startup community and offer discounted/apprenticeship
model to access those newly graduated consultants.
*) Possibly provide things like USA corporation umbrella to bring -
say - a Philipino consultant to USA/UK for 3 months to train and then
let them go back home to establish the business.
*) And, again, a lot more
And, of course, gamify the whole lot wherever possible to drive the
speed of adoption :-)
Time is money.
Many of the things above exist for Solr, but they are all over the
web, often rotting after initial release due to lack of visibility,
etc. Other things are missing documentation, etc. Many of the other
things exist (e.g. consultant directories) but they are not Solr
specific. Frankly, many of the things that do exist have terrible
search, fixing that alone would be competitive beyond Solr. There is
value in building a happy singing YCombinator-style path.
Regards,
Alex.
Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov
Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart
Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Posted by Alexandre Rafalovitch <ar...@gmail.com>.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com> wrote:
> OTOH, how many people are there out there who want to become Solr
> consultants, but aren't already either doing it or at least already in the
> process of coming up to speed or maybe just not cut out for it?
Well, I would target two groups:
*) Startups that just realized they need search
*) People who want to become consultants and want speed track to that
("already in the process" can take quite a while).
For Startups, I would do a weeklong version of what I did with my
one-day Solr Masterclass.
*) Bring your own data, we teach you very specific process of
development-oriented setup (e.g. start from
https://github.com/arafalov/simplest-solr-config/blob/master/simplest-solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml
, teach rapid iterations, ways to affect data in Solr such as URP,
Custom Search Components, etc).
*) Then teach debugging.
*) Then SolrCloud.
*) Then maybe touch on BigData as many SAAS startups will hit that problem
*) Then going into production.
*) Then, send them out with a (paid-for and/or subscription) dedicated
discussion group where the mentor would continue answering questions
as they bubble up. etc.
*) And more
For consultants:
*) you teach them to understand which problems Solr is good for
*) you teach them how to explain Solr to others.
*) Teach them (or build for them) great Solr demos.
*) Give them unsolved-but-tractable project and assist them in making
those happen (e.g. build a Solr-backed real solr-consultants website,
testing Solr clients with latest Solr, testing upstream integration,
creating Solr feature demos for 3rd party products that have Solr
inside, etc)
*) Build them environments to quickly test their ideas, skills, etc.
*) Give them tools and tricks to quickly build online identity around
Solr (blogging tips, link to their articles to build SEO, GitHub
repos, etc)
*) Build a network where consultants can pass work to each other based
on geography
*) Get preferential deals with commercial Solr components suppliers,
so the consultants get things like UI components at reduced price or
extended trials or whatever
*) Dedicated discussion group
*) If they are in the solr-consultants directory, charge them
subscription fees but give them a dedicated discussion group where
they can talk but also ask for particular features (e.g. better
examples, demo repos, language support, deals, commonly useful
components like the split/join filters, etc). Use those as projects to
drive next batch of developers.
*) Reach out to startup community and offer discounted/apprenticeship
model to access those newly graduated consultants.
*) Possibly provide things like USA corporation umbrella to bring -
say - a Philipino consultant to USA/UK for 3 months to train and then
let them go back home to establish the business.
*) And, again, a lot more
And, of course, gamify the whole lot wherever possible to drive the
speed of adoption :-)
Time is money.
Many of the things above exist for Solr, but they are all over the
web, often rotting after initial release due to lack of visibility,
etc. Other things are missing documentation, etc. Many of the other
things exist (e.g. consultant directories) but they are not Solr
specific. Frankly, many of the things that do exist have terrible
search, fixing that alone would be competitive beyond Solr. There is
value in building a happy singing YCombinator-style path.
Regards,
Alex.
Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov
Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart
Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Posted by Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com>.
Any or all of the above, and more.
OTOH, how many people are there out there who want to become Solr
consultants, but aren't already either doing it or at least already in the
process of coming up to speed or maybe just not cut out for it?
But then there are the kids in school. Maybe we need to get more professors
interested in Solr (or do they prefer Elasticsearch?!) and assigning
projects? And maybe the problem is that a lot of the need is in departments
outside of CS, but Solr (the people with actual data needs) is just too...
"difficult"... for a lot of non-CS students to "casually pick up".
I sense the difficulty is that Solr is too much of a complex "toolkit"
rather than a packaged product. For example, the recent inquiry related to
queries for compound and split terms - it's not automatic and OOB for Solr,
and without an obvious and simple solution. Lots of things are like that in
Solr.
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandre Rafalovitch
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 4:52 AM
To: solr-user
Subject: Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Well, if we do it in England, we could hire out a castle, I bet. :-) I
am flexible on my "holiday" locations. And probably easier to do the
first one in English.
We can continue this on direct email, on the LinkedIn group (perfect
place probably) and/or on the margins of the Solr Revolution. Target
next spring/summer for the week-long event, work backwards from there.
Talk to http://www.techstars.com/program/locations/london/ to
specifically target the startups, etc....
Regards,
Alex.
Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov
Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart
Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Charlie Hull <ch...@flax.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24/07/2014 01:54, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com>
>> wrote:
>>> All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy.
>>
>> Sounds like an opportunity for somebody to put together a training
>> hacker camp, similar to https://hackerbeach.org/ . Cross-train
>> consultants in Solr, immediately increase their value.
>
> We're definitely interested in the idea of 'growing' more Solr
> consultants,
> and eventually committers. Beaches and mountains are good too :) I think
> the
> skill shortage is a huge problem for the open source search world.
>
> Charlie
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Posted by Alexandre Rafalovitch <ar...@gmail.com>.
Well, if we do it in England, we could hire out a castle, I bet. :-) I
am flexible on my "holiday" locations. And probably easier to do the
first one in English.
We can continue this on direct email, on the LinkedIn group (perfect
place probably) and/or on the margins of the Solr Revolution. Target
next spring/summer for the week-long event, work backwards from there.
Talk to http://www.techstars.com/program/locations/london/ to
specifically target the startups, etc....
Regards,
Alex.
Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov
Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart
Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Charlie Hull <ch...@flax.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24/07/2014 01:54, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com>
>> wrote:
>>> All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy.
>>
>> Sounds like an opportunity for somebody to put together a training
>> hacker camp, similar to https://hackerbeach.org/ . Cross-train
>> consultants in Solr, immediately increase their value.
>
> We're definitely interested in the idea of 'growing' more Solr consultants,
> and eventually committers. Beaches and mountains are good too :) I think the
> skill shortage is a huge problem for the open source search world.
>
> Charlie
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Posted by Charlie Hull <ch...@flax.co.uk>.
On 24/07/2014 01:54, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com> wrote:
>> All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy.
>
> Sounds like an opportunity for somebody to put together a training
> hacker camp, similar to https://hackerbeach.org/ . Cross-train
> consultants in Solr, immediately increase their value. Do it
> somewhere on the beach or in the mountains, etc. If somebody organizes
> it, I would probably even be interested to teaching the first (newbie)
> part.
>
> And the graduation project would a be a solr-consutants.com website to
> make it easier to find those same consultants later. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Alex.
> P.s. Last issue of my newsletter had "Solr big ideas". The one above
> was not in it, but it is - I believe - also viable. Contact me if it
> catches your fancy for more detailed brainstorming and notes sharing.
We're definitely interested in the idea of 'growing' more Solr
consultants, and eventually committers. Beaches and mountains are good
too :) I think the skill shortage is a huge problem for the open source
search world.
Charlie
>
> Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov
> Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart
> Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853
>
--
Charlie Hull
Flax - Open Source Enterprise Search
tel/fax: +44 (0)8700 118334
mobile: +44 (0)7767 825828
web: www.flax.co.uk
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Posted by Alexandre Rafalovitch <ar...@gmail.com>.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com> wrote:
> All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy.
Sounds like an opportunity for somebody to put together a training
hacker camp, similar to https://hackerbeach.org/ . Cross-train
consultants in Solr, immediately increase their value. Do it
somewhere on the beach or in the mountains, etc. If somebody organizes
it, I would probably even be interested to teaching the first (newbie)
part.
And the graduation project would a be a solr-consutants.com website to
make it easier to find those same consultants later. :-)
Regards,
Alex.
P.s. Last issue of my newsletter had "Solr big ideas". The one above
was not in it, but it is - I believe - also viable. Contact me if it
catches your fancy for more detailed brainstorming and notes sharing.
Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov
Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart
Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853