
Senior Solution Architect, Aiven
Michael started out as a Perl & Java developer writing app servers before you could get one off the shelf, but quickly adopted an opensource-first approach to enterprise software development & architecture which he's followed for over 25 years.
Since first using Apache Lucene in 2006, Michael has been incorporating Search into apps as a way to lift user experience & give enterprise users the "Google experience" we've all come to expect.
As part of Aiven's Solution Architecture team, Michael gets to play with all the best Open Source data platform tech at a company that believes in & actively contributes back to the open source community.