Michael Busch is a Member and Lucene committer at The Apache Software Foundation. He possess expertise in lucene, open source, apache, java, information retrieval and 12 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "It has been a privilege knowing and working with Michael at Twitter. He is truly a 10x engineer who is capable of inspiring and lifting the performance of people around him. He has almost single-handedly built the core of Earlybird - Twitter's realtime search engine. During the time I worked with him, I learnt a lot about building high performance systems. Outside of work, he is a genuinely kind and warm person. It has been a joy to work with him and I really look forward to our future collaboration whenever that might be.", "After reading Michael's other recommendations, it's hard to think of something to add that hasn't already been said. He's among the brightest people I know, and applies himself with dedication and tenacity to the most difficult problems, until he's solved them. His solutions are straightforward, correct, and complete. As has been said, he's one of the most agreeable and positive souls you could hope to meet. It's been a pleasure to work with him, and I would recommend him highly for any software position.", and "Michael is one of the best engineers I have had the pleasure to work with. Innovative, extremely motivated, makes very complicated designs appear simple, with easy to read, solid, performant code. His continued contributions to Lucene simplify, make extensible, increase possibilities.... And he is a heck of a nice guy, great to work with!"