Erik Hatcher is the co-author of “Lucene in Action” as well as co-author of “Java Development with Ant”. Erik is a cofounder of Lucidworks, an active member of the Lucene community, a leading Lucene/Solr committer, member of the Lucene/Solr Project Management Committee, member of the Apache Software Foundation as well as a frequent invited speaker at various industry events. Erik earned his B.S. in Computer Science from University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.