Authors List

Authors List

Authors

  • Matheus Nogueira is a senior software engineer at Kubeshop and is one the maintainers of Tracetest. Prior to joining the Tracetest team, Matheus helped companies to improve automated tests and tooling to improve developer experience.

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  • Matt Lutton contributes brand and creative strategy to the OpenSearch Project; he enjoys playing with his two young kids and teaching himself how to make watch straps.

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  • Matt Timmermans was a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Tripadvisor, integrating OpenSearch into a low-latency CQRS backend. He currently is a Principle Engineer at Amazon.

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  • Megha Goyal is a Senior software engineer at AWS OpenSearch, working on Agent Health, an AI Agent Evaluation and Observability solution for the OpenSearch Project.

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  • Mehul A. Shah is the Co-Founder of Aryn.ai. While everyone is working with AI these days, his background includes large-scale data management, distributed computing, and energy efficient computing. Prior to Aryn, Mehul was VP, Eng in Google Cloud, and GM of several AWS services: Glue, Lake Formation, and OpenSearch (Elasticsearch). His previous startup, Amiato, was acquired by Amazon. Before that, Mehul was a researcher at HP Labs, and he received a PhD from U.C. Berkeley and a MEng and B.S. from MIT in CS and Physics.

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  • Michael as a Senior Staff Engineer at Uber, he has been working with Lucene since 2011, using it to implement multiple highly-scalable search solutions at Amazon (both retail and AWS). He has contributed to Lucene and Solr since 2012, and became a Lucene committer in 2025. Michael has been a maintainer on the OpenSearch project since 2023, and now works on OpenSearch and Lucene at Uber.

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  • Michael Oviedo is a software engineer at AWS working on performance and benchmarking for the OpenSearch Project. Outside of work he enjoys playing golf, trying new foods, and binge-watching TV shows.

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  • Dr. Michele Dolfi is a technical lead in the AI for Knowledge group at IBM Research, focusing on knowledge engineering and understanding. Michele is one of the researchers who created the Docling open-source project and is now part of its steering committee.

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  • Mikayla Thompson

    Mikayla Thompson is a software engineer at AWS working on the OpenSearch Project, where she focuses on migrations.

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  • Mikhail Smelik is a Solutions Architect at AWS supporting strategic customers. Mikhail has worked closely with the AWS speciality organization to promote and support Opensearch.

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  • Mikhail Stepura
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  • Milind Shyani is an applied scientist at Amazon Web Services working on machine learning algorithms and large language models.

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  • Minal Shah is a Software Engineering Manager at AWS with focus on OpenSearch, OpenSearch plugins, and Generative AI applications.

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  • Mingshi Liu is a software development engineer at AWS working on OpenSearch.

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  • Mohammad Qureshi is a software engineer at Amazon Web Services working on OpenSearch. Mohammad has worked on OpenSearch Alerting, Index State Management, Rollups, and Notifications.

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  • Mohit is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon OpenSearch. He is interested in distributed systems, systems performance, and databases. He has been an OpenSearch contributor since 2021. At Amazon, he works with the indexing as primary area of interest and has contributed to various features and performance improvements in the same space.

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  • Monica Kugler is a Senior Technical Product Manager at AWS working on OpenSearch.

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  • Mukul Karnik is General Manager for OpenSearch at Amazon Web Services, where he helps steward the open-source OpenSearch Project and is responsible for large-scale cloud-native search, log, and security analytics platforms. Mukul has held several roles since joining Amazon in 2005, including serving as engineering director for Amazon QuickSight at the time the service was launched and leading the service and caching infrastructure org that powers Amazon and AWS services. Mukul earned his Master’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. He holds more than 30 patents and has authored several journals and conference papers.

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  • Mulugeta Mammo is a Senior Software Engineer currently leading the OpenSearch Optimization team at Intel.

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  • Natalie Broman is an Event Program Manager at AWS focusing on the OpenSearch Project and the OpenSource community.

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