Experienced Solr Consultant

How I can help you with Solr

My involvement with clients as a Solr consultant generally revolves around:

  • Mentoring and training in Solr
  • Architecting the search stack
  • Improving performance and scalability of an existing Solr implementation
  • Implementing spatial search solutions, like (but not restricted to) LocalSolr
  • Custom Solr plugins, like SearchComponents and RequestHandlers, etc
  • Other custom Solr search solutions

Stuff I've done recently in Solr

  • Implemented approximate autocomplete in Solr
  • Custom spatial search using TrieRange and supporting multiple points (lat/long) per document
  • Geocoding request handler
  • Performance tuning for largish Solr installations
  • Solr BoostMax search component
  • Creator and maintainer of Solr Tutorial.com

What my clients think of my Solr-related work

Kelvin is an extremely productive thinker with deep domain knowledge in search technology. His swiftness, combined with a commitment to complete tasks on a very short deadline ensured that our project was accelerated by months. I would unequivocally recommend him to anyone undergoing a project related to search technology.
Niki Scevak, Founder and CEO
Homethinking.com


All for Good hired Kelvin to review and make several enhancements to our current Solr based search platform. I thoroughly vetted Kelvin's skills before deciding to work with him so I was not surprised by his expert level knowledge of Solr (especially geospatial search) and the general technical knowledge that he brought to the project.

What was a pleasant surprise is how incredibly thorough, committed, and full of positive energy he is. Before wrapping up his work with us he made sure to fully document everything he had done and made sure we all were completely up to speed on it. He has outstanding technical skills, a great attitude, and excellent communication skills. Nice guy too. I highly recommend Kelvin.
Dan Stryker, Project Manager
AllForGood.org
02/06/2012 | Kelvin Tan | Lucene Solr Crawl Consultant