Nick is an Apache Lucene Committer and PMC Member. He has two decades of experience as a fully cleared government contractor across different agencies in the intelligence community working in Geospatial, Image, Signals, and All Source Intelligence.

His contributions to open source span multiple projects including the following highlights:

• Lucene BKD based shape indexing and search
• Lucene Numeric Range Indexing and Search
• MongoDB multi-dimension support using high dimension RTree
• Accumulo multi-dimension indexing and search support
• OpenSearch first maintainer and top contributor
• Former Elasticsearch contributor
• OGC Proj reprojection contributions

Nick is a member of the following organizations:

• Apache
• Open Geospatial Consortium
• USGIF

Help sponsor Nick's work today. All proceeds go toward ongoing feature development and maintenance of benchmarking server resources. If you have a specific feature you want Nick to work on feel free to reach out via nknize@apache.org.

Thank you for all of your support.