Welcome Dr. Dave Hardtke
The Cloudant team is growing!
We're excited to welcome Dr. Dave Hardtke who has joined Cloudant as Director of Search. Like many of us here at Cloudant, Dave began his career as an experimental particle physicist. In over a decade of experience Dave illuminated the secrets of the universe at various experiments such as STAR (Brookhaven National Lab), ICECUBE (Antarctica), and NA44 (CERN). Dave's seminal work lead to the discovery of the Quark Gluon Plasma, the 2005 physics story of the year. More recently Dave has turned his talents in algorithms and analyses to search, where he has built his own startup stinkyteddy.com, a general purpose search engine combining multiple keyword-driven search feeds and intelligent semantic analysis to deliver the most timely search results regardless of source and content types. Prior to that Dave served as Chief Scientist at Surf Canyon, a startup focusing on personalization of real-time search.
Dave is accelerating Cloudant Search. As we add customers it has become clear that they are hungry not just for a flexible way to store thier data, but a powerful way to "discover" their data. Search is a critical component in nearly all data driven applications. We are therefore expanding our efforts to integrate a robust search platform into our CouchDB-based, cloud database service. Dave brings his expertise in internet and enterpise search technology to the project.
Please join me in welcoming Dave to the team.
