Matt Pearce worked at the Press Association, leading digital agency netXtra and at Proquest before joining the Flax team, where he has worked on a document management system, upgrading a news search application, indexing ontologies and on product search.
Matt has experience with Apache Lucene/Solr, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Postgres and the Tapestry component framework. He is skilled in Java, Perl, PHP and Javascript and holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Kent.