Products I worked/working on:

• People Search: LinkedIn Faceted People Search.
  • http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/linkedin-drills-down-into-people-search-with-new-beta/
  • http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/12/14/linkedin-faceted-search/
• Signal: LinkedIn Network Status Update Search.
  • http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/with-linkedin-signal-twitter-and-linkedin-collide/
  • http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/29/linkedin-signal-combines-twitter-with-the-resume-site.html

My projects:

• Sensei: Distributed searchable database.
• Zoie: Realtime search extension for Lucene.
• Bobo: Faceted search extension for Lucene.
• Kamikaze: Lucene extension for fast doc-set boolean operations and compression.

My OS-list:

A shout-out to my fellow geeks!

Some criteria for this list:

• Awesome and useful
• Not super well-known, e.g. no books have yet written about it

In no particular order:

• Coda Hale's Metrics: Monitors and measures your system.
• Fastutil: Fast primitive collections library for Java.
• Twitter Bootstrap: Pretty CSS for backend dudes with no artistic talent.
• Apache Kafka: Developed and contributed by LinkedIn, a super-fast distributed pub-sub system.