Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar is an innovator and an enterprise architect with 16 years of software design and development experience, specifically in the areas of big data, enterprise search, data analytics, text mining, and databases. He is passionate about architecting new software implementations for the next generation of software solutions for various industries, including oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, utilities, healthcare, and government infrastructure. In the past, he has authored three books for Packt Publishing: two editions of Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr and one of Scaling Apache Solr. He has also worked with graph databases, and some of his work has been published at international conferences such as VLDB and ICDE.