Kevin Liang is a software engineer on Bloomberg's Search Infrastructure engineering team in New York. As part of a team that offers search-as-a-managed-service, he works closely with Apache Solr day in and day out. This includes everything from the application-level software down to the bare-metal hardware. Recently, his work has focused increasingly on support for dense vector search, but has also covered a variety of subjects, including automation, backups, and major version upgrades.