Jayant Kumar Author

Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science, and more than 12 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and Php, and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 10 years. He has been the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect; but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.