Authors List

Grant Ingersoll is the Fractional CTO and technical advisor focused primarily on the search, NLP and machine learning space. He is the former CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation and the co-founder, CTO & Board Member of Lucidworks; co-author of Taming Text; co-founder of Apache Mahout and a long-standing committer on the Apache Lucene, Solr, and OpenSearch open source projects. Grant’s experience includes managing a large team of engineers, researchers, ML engineers and data scientists at a top ten website as well as engineering a number of search, question answering, and natural language processing applications for a variety of domains and languages. He earned his B.S. from Amherst College in Math and Computer Science and his M.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University.