Who we are
Globally distributed organization that builds innovative Cloud and On Premise solutions
About Sematext
Sematext runs Sematext Cloud – infrastructure and application performance monitoring and log management solution that gives businesses full-stack visibility by exposing logs, metrics and traces through a single Cloud or On Premise solution. Sematext also provides Consulting, Training, and Production Support for Elasticsearch, the ELK/Elastic Stack, and Apache Solr.
Unlike other vendors who typically offer only performance monitoring tools, or only logging tools, or only Big Data consulting services, etc., Sematext pulls together all of these related core competencies that organizations need to make informed decisions from their data into one solution suite of products and services.
Brief History
Sematext was founded by Otis Gospodnetić, a Lucene and Solr expert, co-author of Lucene in Action (1st and 2nd editions), and a member of Lucene, Solr, Nutch, and Mahout development teams. The company is entirely self-funded and has been profitable and cash flow positive from day one without ever taking on debt or external funding.
Over time we have established presence in a number of countries and on several continents, which allows us to easily serve our diverse clientele from Fortune 100 organizations to startups — and everything in between — 24/7 across different time zones.
Spring 2010
Sematext launched as Sematext International Initially a consulting shop focused on Apache Lucene and Apache Solr, later adding coverage for Elasticsearch and ELK Stack
Fall 2013
Sematext Monitoring launched Initially providing monitoring for Apache Solr and Elasticsearch with additional integrations coming later
Summer 2014
Sematext Logs launched The first Elasticsearch as a Service SaaS on the market. Industry first tight integration of performance metrics and logs
Summer 2015
Distributed Transaction Tracing launched. Sematext is the first vendor to provide the three pillars of observability: monitoring, logs, and tracing
Summer 2017
Sematext Cloud launched both in North America and Europe
Summer 2017
First ever all hands gathering in Split, Croatia
Summer 2017
20 people
2018
Team gathering in Barcelona
2019
Sematext Experience launched. Team gathering in Zagreb, Croatia.
2020
Synthetic Monitoring launched
How we work
Fully-distributed team, with members distributed over several continents. Although small, we are widely recognized for our expertise and are highly regarded – our clients come to us not because of our marketing, but because they hear we do good work. Expectations are high but in a collaborative, mentoring, team-first environment that promotes the success of our products as well as individuals.
Sematext engineers report that the biggest benefit of the fully distributed team is being able to really focus on one’s work, and thus produce great things.
Meet the team
We are a fully distributed team, spread across several continents
Otis Gospodnetić Founder
Lucene and Solr veteran, book author, loves search, data, trend graphs, and all things marine.
Rafal Kuć Software Engineer
Author, software engineer, consultant – all in one battle weapon concentrated on Lucene, Solr, Elasticsearch, and big data.
Bojan Šmid Software Engineer
10+ years of work experience in IT as architect, consultant, programmer, project manager, etc. Currently focused on Big Data, search technologies (Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr) and Machine Learning.
Radu Gheorghe Software Engineer
Always strives for clean, simple, efficient designs. Big data makes the effort worthwhile, because you can feel the difference from Day One.
Ciprian Hacman Automation Engineer
Making big data easy to use by everyone. Enjoys being part of a passionate team, exploring new ideas and technologies every day.
Emir Arnautović Software Engineer
Grew up in international teams working on big map data and related tools and technologies. Found numerous new ways to use and misuse most of them.
Nedim Šabić Software Engineer
Devops enthusiast and platform architect experienced in Python, J2EE platform and Spring framework ecosystem. Go and Rust lover. Linux internals addict.
Davor Obilinović Software Engineer
Full stack developer with passion for front-end development. Also experienced with Java and AWS technologies.
Vladimir Tretyakov Software Engineer
After several years in enterprise development, joined Sematext international devops crew to build applications that work with big data, scalable, and distributed systems.
Denisa Tudor Sales and Marketing Coordinator
Ph.D. in Communication Studies. Experienced communication practitioner, passionate about Big Data and consumer behavior.
Paweł Róg Software Engineer
Oneliners lover: bash equipped with curl, grep, awk, sed, etc. can do the magic. Loves learning new technologies. Grepping open source code helps him with that. JVM heap dumps put a smile on his face. He is an enthusiast of rubber duck debugging.
Marko Bonaći Software Engineer
Experienced Java and JavaScript developer. Currently focused on React. Spark in Action co-author. Likes exploring new technologies, when his twins allow.
Amir Hadžić Software Engineer
Has been developing in one way or another for the World Wide Web for 8+ years. Currently focused on web applications, SaaS products, and related technologies.
Sivasamy Kaliappan Software Engineer
10+ years of experience in telecom software development. Author of Logtrail plugin for Kibana. Backend developer who also tinkers with Javascript & CSS. Likes distributed systems, debugging and to explore and understand how systems work.
Jorge Moreno Front End Engineer
Wide experience on User Interface development with a background in Arts and Design. Always interested on the creative and visual aspects of programming with JavaScript, CSS, SVG… Open Source devotee and bicycle touring lover!
Luka Donđivić Software Engineer
Generalist software engineer, interested in data structures, scalable distributed systems and machine learning. Loves bridge and puzzles of all kinds.
Adnan Rahić Software Engineer
A bit of this, a bit of that, JavaScript developer at heart. Startup founder, author and teacher with a passion for DevOps and Serverless. As of late focusing on product growth and developer advocacy.
Amer Hidanovic Front End Developer
Front-end evangelist with deep passion in converting code to functional reality. Pixel-perfect hunter always open to master new challenges and technologies but always faithful to JavaScript.
Erol Mujak Product Designer
Focusing on interactive experiences and digital products.
Euan Clark Search Architect
Veteran 27 years experience as developer, architect, technical lead. Current focus on Elasticsearch, Node.JS, Go, Terraform and Backend.
John Demian Software Engineer
Frontend developer turned marketeer with a focus on content and SEO. In his spare time he daydreams at the idea of Flash making a comeback.
Feđa Šehić Front End Developer
Passionate frontend developer with keen eye for details. Loves the React ecosystem and the whole frontend galaxy. When he is not writing code he is writing music. Focused on becoming full stack Jedi.
Haris Ovčina Product Designer
Architect turned product designer, always looking for ways on how to improve current processes and make them ever so slightly useful and more beautiful.
Selma Šuvalija Software Developer
Hands-on software engineer specialized in web and service oriented applications. In general, I love building products that delight people.
Become a part of our team
We are a small, ambitious team with a clear mission:
To make troubleshooting easier for all ops around.
