About the Author

Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications.

Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India.

Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful.

Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com.

Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.

I would like to thank the guys at Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book. Special thanks to Vinay Argekar and Mohammed Fahad from Packt Publishing for keeping me engaged and dealing with my drafts and providing feedback at all stages.

I would like to thank my wife, Nidhi, and my parents for taking care of our kids while I was engaged in writing this book. And finally, I would like to thank my kids, Ashlesha and Banhishikha, for bearing with me while I was writing this book.