Authors

Aleksander Stensby

Aleksander is a lead software developer and co-owner of Integrasco A/S where he has been working since 2004. He has broad experience with Java development and technologies such as Lucene Search, Solr, Hibernate, Mysql, Spring and Hibernate Shards, with keen interests in search, machine learning, pattern recognition and scalability. Aleksander have a MSc from the University of Agder in Norway and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His Master’s thesis was awarded University Senate Medal for best Master thesis in 2008. Aleksander enjoy working with challenging tasks and solving AI related problems. In addition to his work at Integrasco, Aleksander also give public talks related to search, scalability and machine learning.

E-mail: aleksander@ and please add “codemunchies.com”
Website: http://aleksander-stensby.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/astensby
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksanderstensby
Facebook: http://facebook.com/aleksander.stensby

Jaran Nilsen

Jaran has been working as a lead developer at Integrasco AS since it’s startup in 2004. His interests in software development are ranging from the lowest bit to design patterns and development methods. On a daily basis his main area of responsibility is data mining technology as well as team management. Jaran has a MSc in from the University of Agder in Norway, majoring in software development. In addition to his work at Integrasco AS, he is also running an open source project called iTunes Agent over on Sourceforge, which provides non-iPod owners with a way to transfer music from iTunes to their media player. Since the end of 2008 he has also been a regional leader of the Norwegian Java User Group, javaBin.

E-mail: jaran@ and please add “codemunchies.com”
Website: http://www.jaranweb.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jarannilsen
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jarannilsen
Facebook: http://facebook.com/jaran.nilsen
Projects: iTunes Agent, jade4spring