
Nicholas Knize
Co-founder and CTO of @Lucenia, Lucene Committer and PMC member. Providing "do more with less" Hybrid Search in... | Allen, Texas, United States
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Nicholas Knize’s Expertise Co-founder and CTO of @Lucenia, Lucene Committer and PMC member. Providing "do more with less" Hybrid Search in "secure by design" Hybrid Cloud deployments to cut cloud infrastructure costs by 40% or more while preventing vendor lock in. [SEARCH] ...on your terms. Former Principal Engineer for Amazon Search Services working on Open Source search data structures and analysis capabilities. Previously the Geospatial Lead, and Lucene committer for Elastic working on Elasticsearch and Elastic Maps. Responsible for Geospatial indexing, search, and analysis capabilities in core Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene. Prior to Elastic, the Chief Scientist for Thermopylae Sciences and Technology responsible for designing and developing scalable high dimension indexing capabilities. Inventor of XTree Hyperspatial indexing as an extension to MongoDB and Accumulo non-relational database systems. In personal time, tinkerer of open source projects, including SocialEyez TV for Google TV 2.0; the first SocialTV application for Google TV providing a show specific social network for Live and on demand TV and enables users to connect through common TV interests. Prior to TST, I was the co-founder and Director of the Ubiquitous Intelligence Technologies Center in Raytheon's now defunct Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS) division. Responsible for planning, executing, and growing Raytheon's mobile business through R&D, and building the company's mobile product portfolio. I also served as the Chief Engineer of Independent Research & Development (IR&D). Responsibilities included integrating emerging technologies across multiple centers of excellence and product lines. Accolades include: 1. Inventor of the Raytheon Advanced Tactical System (RATS) and Integrated Video Exploitation & Dissemination 2. 7 patents & 1 Trade-Secret 3. 3 Time Tech Honors award recipient 4. Young Engineering Leadership Accelerator & Engineering Leadership Development Participant 5. Corporate Excellence in Engineering Technology Individual Award Recipient Specialties: Spatial / High dimension indexing, Elasticsearch, Mobile Technologies (Android, iOS), SocialTV, Hadoop, Cassandra, CloudBase, Distributed Computing, Computer Vision (OpenCV, IPP), Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry (Camera Models/Systems), Geospatial Information Systems
Nicholas Knize’s Current Industry Lucenia
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Knize’s Prior Industry
Boeing
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Raytheon Intelligence And Information Systems
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Thermopylae Sciences And Technology
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Elastic
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The Apache Software Foundation
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Amazon
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Opensearch Project
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Lucenia
Co-Founder & CTO
Fri Mar 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Opensearch Project
Maintainer Emeritus
Fri Jan 01 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Mar 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Amazon
Principal Engineer - Search
Sun Nov 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Mar 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
The Apache Software Foundation
Lucene PMC Member & Committer
Thu Oct 01 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Elastic
Geospatial Lead and Lucene Committer
Sat Nov 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Nov 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Thermopylae Sciences And Technology
Chief Scientist
Sun May 01 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Wed Oct 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raytheon Intelligence And Information Systems
Director - Ubiquitous Intelligence Technologies Center
Tue Feb 01 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun May 01 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raytheon Intelligence And Information Systems
Chief Engineer - Mobile Technologies
Fri Jan 01 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue Feb 01 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raytheon Intelligence And Information Systems
IIS IR&D Chief Engineer
Sun Feb 01 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue Dec 01 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raytheon Intelligence And Information Systems
Multi-INT Exploitation Tools Principal Investigator
Tue Jan 01 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sat Aug 01 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raytheon Intelligence And Information Systems
Multi-INT Enterprise Campaign Principal Investigator
Mon Jan 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue Jan 01 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raytheon Intelligence And Information Systems
Horizontal Integration Technologies Principal Investigator
Sun Jan 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Mon Jan 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raytheon Intelligence And Information Systems
NGA Automatic Target Detection & Tracking - Video Exploitation Scientist
Sun Aug 01 2004 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Jan 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raytheon Intelligence And Information Systems
GMTI IR&D Image/Video Exploitation Scientist
Tue Jun 01 2004 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Wed Dec 01 2004 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Boeing
F18A/E "Super Hornet" Instructor Operator Station Interface Architect
Thu May 01 2003 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Aug 01 2003 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)