Itamar Syn-Hershko is a search engines, distributed systems and architecture expert, and an international speaker on those topics. He works as a consultant, trainer and freelance developer doing lots of interesting projects world-wide.

A frequent open-source contributor in general and an Apache Lucene.NET committer and PMC member in particular, Itamar strongly believes in the power of open-source projects and the creativity they can bring to the table.

Itamar is an active member of the Elasticsearch community and a Microsoft MVP, and blogs about those topics and more in his blog http://code972.com