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Biography
Andrea has more than 15 years of experience in various software engineering areas, from telecommunications to banking. He has worked for several medium- and large-scale companies, such as IBM and Orga Systems.
Andrea has several certifications in the Java programming language (programmer, developer, web component developer, business component developer, and JEE architect), BEA products (build and portal solutions), and Apache Solr (Lucid Apache Solr/Lucene Certified Developer).
In 2009, Andrea stepped into the wonderful world of open source projects, and in the same year, he became a committer for the Apache Qpid project.
His adventure with the search domain began in 2010, when he met Apache Solr and, later, Elasticsearch… and it was love at first sight. Since then, he has been involved as a search engineer in many projects ranging in different fields (bibliographic, e-government, e-commerce, geospatial).
In 2015 he wrote “Apache Solr Essentials”, published by Packt Publishing.
Expertise
Information Retrieval
Enterprise Software Architecture
Linked Data
Object Oriented and Functional Programming
Research Topics
✓ Information Retrieval
✓ Music Information Retrieval
✓ Functional Programming
✓ Linked Data
Latest blog posts
- The Missing Piece: ID Discovery in RRE Enterprise
- Query Discovery in RRE Enterprise
- RRE-Enterprise: Make Explicit Ratings Easy
- Elasticsearch Alias Field Type
- Music Information Retrieval: the Intervals Matrix
- Music Information Retrieval: the Intervals Table
- Apache Solr Atomic Updates: a Polymorphic Approach