# Grant Ingersoll

> Grant Ingersoll is the founder of Develomentor and co-founder and former CTO of Lucidworks. A former Wikimedia Foundation CTO, Apache Mahout co-creator, longtime Lucene and Solr contributor, and lead author of Taming Text, he combines search engineering with teaching and executive work.

- **Role:** Founder and fractional CTO at Develomentor
- **Organizations:** Develomentor, Lucidworks, Wikimedia Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, Apache Mahout, SearchStax, Uplimit, Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University
- **Education:** BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, Amherst College, MS in Computer Science, Syracuse University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Lucidworks., Co-created Apache Mahout., Longstanding Lucene and Solr committer.

## Career timeline

- **2003** — Became a senior software engineer at Syracuse’s Center for Natural Language Processing.
- **2007** — Co-founded Lucid Imagination, later Lucidworks.
- **2011** — Promoted to chief scientist at Lucidworks on August 4.
- **2012** — Manning published Taming Text in December.
- **2016** — Published an account of moving from combined CTO and engineering leadership duties to focusing on CTO work.
- **2018** — Develomentor incorporated as a side project.
- **2019** — Launched Develomentor podcast; joined Wikimedia Foundation as CTO on September 23.
- **2021** — Left Wikimedia in July; SearchStax announced his advisory board appointment in August.
- **2022** — Develomentor became a full-time firm and the podcast wound down.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Lucidworks.
- Co-created Apache Mahout.
- Longstanding Lucene and Solr committer.
- Served as Wikimedia Foundation CTO from September 2019 to July 2021.
- Lead author of Taming Text with Thomas S. Morton and Andrew L. Farris.
- Hosted more than 130 Develomentor conversations between 2019 and 2022.
- Developed search courses with Daniel Tunkelang and Dave Anderson.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — At the research date, Develomentor’s site identifies him as founder and leader of fractional technology engagements, alongside search teaching. This is a current-status observation, not a dated announcement.

## Links

- Website: https://develomentor.com/bio/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/gsingers
- GitHub: https://github.com/gsingers

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Last updated: 2026-10-21