Itamar Syn-Hershko is a search engines, distributed systems and architecture expert, and 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 in particular, Itamar strongly believes in the power of open-source projects and the creativity they can bring to the table. In the past he worked as a core developer for RavenDB and is the author of “RavenDB in Action” published by Manning.

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