Grant is the former CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the co-founder and ex-CTO of Lucidworks, lead author of the award winning Taming Text, co-founder of Apache Mahout and a long-standing committer on the Apache Lucene and Solr open source projects. Grant is also the co-author of “Taming Text” from Manning Publications. Currently, he is interviewing people in tech for his newly - founded platform "Develomentor" that offers career advice in tech.