Ramzi Alqrainy is one of the most recognized experts within artificial intelligence and information retrieval fields in the Middle East. He is an active researcher and technology blogger with a focus on information retrieval.
He is a Solr engineer at Lucidworks and head of technology of www.openSooq.com, where he capitalizes on his solid experience in open source technologies in scaling up the search engine and supportive systems.
His experience in Solr, Elasticsearch, Spark, Mahout, and Hadoop stack contributed directly to the business growth through the implementations and projects that helped the key people to slice and dice information easily throughout the dashboards and data visualization solutions.
By developing more than eight full stack search engines, he was able to solve many complicated challenges about agglutination and stemming in the Arabic language.
He holds a master's degree in computer science, was among the first rank in his class, and was listed on the honor roll. His website address is http://ramzialqrainy.com. His LinkedIn profile is http://www.linkedin.com/in/ramzialqrainy. He can be contacted at <ramzi.alqrainy@gmail.com>.
Damiano Braga is a senior software engineer at Trulia, where he helps the company to scale the search infrastructure and make search better. He's also an open source contributor and a conference speaker.
Prior to Trulia, he studied at and worked for the University of Ferrara (Italy), where he completed his master's degree in computer science engineering.
Omar Shaban is a software architect and software engineer with a passion for programming and open source. He began programming as a youngster in 2001. He is the lead maintainer of PHP's PECL Solr Extension and a proud PHP member.
Omar enjoys resolving complex problems, designing web applications architecture, and optimizing applications' performance. He is interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning.
