Chris 'Hoss' Hostetter is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation, and serves on the Lucene Project Management Committee. Prior to joining LucidWorks in 2010 to work full time on Solr development, he spent 11 years as a Principal Software Engineer for CNET Networks thinking about searching "structured data" that was never as structured as it should have been. Hoss has presented on Apache Solr numerous times over the last 8 years including local MeetUps, ApacheCon NA & EU, and Lucene/Solr Revolution where he regularly gets in the hot seat for "Stump The Chump".
