Authors List

Authors List

Authors

  • Lin Wang is an AWS front-end engineer working on the OpenSearch Project. His interests include machine learning and data visualization.

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  • Lior Perry is an AWS senior software development engineer focusing on OpenSearch, Lior has contributed to the open-source community for years and is leading the Observability domain bringing vast experience and domain knowledge.

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  • Lisa Briggs

    Lisa Briggs is the senior director of marketing for the OpenSearch Project at the Linux Foundation. Her work centers on open-source stewardship, community growth, and developer advocacy across search, analytics, and AI.

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  • Liyun Xiu is an AWS senior engineer working on the OpenSearch Project. He focuses on building large-scale applications, performance optimization, and neural sparse search.

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  • Liza Katz

    Liza Katz is a software engineer and team lead who loves open source, search infrastructure, generative AI—and cats, obviously. Read more from this author along with BigData Boutique and Pulse here: https://bigdataboutique.com/

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  • Lorna Mitchell is Head of Developer Relations at Aiven as well as a software developer, published author, and open source enthusiast.

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  • Lu Yu is a Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services working on the OpenSearch Project.

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  • Lucas is a machine learning engineer. Driven by curiosity and a passion for data analysis, he enjoys the challenge of crafting efficient algorithms and refining data pipelines to make sense of complex information. With a focus on practical applications, Lucas enjoys leveraging technology to optimize processes and improve decision-making in data, text, audio, and image applications. In his spare time, Lucas enjoys painting tabletop models and playing video games.

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  • Madhan Kumar Baskaran works as a Search Engineer at AWS. His primary focus involves assisting customers in constructing scalable search applications and analytics solutions. Based in Bengaluru, India, Madhan has a keen interest in Data Engineering and DevOps.

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  • Marc Handalian is a senior software development engineer at AWS working on OpenSearch.

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  • Maria is the co-founder of Dattell, a consulting and managed services company. Dattell supports OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and Pulsar on client environments. Maria is dedicated to making the complex topic of open-source data architecture approachable.

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  • Mark Cohen is a Software Development Manager at AWS working on the OpenSearch Project.

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  • Martin Gaievski is a software engineer at AWS working on the OpenSearch Project and Amazon OpenSearch Service. His primary interests include machine learning, vector search, and semantic search. Outside of work, he enjoys running and listening to music.

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  • Mary Roark is a CISSP who is passionate about all things security and loves travel. She can speak security in 5 languages.

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  • 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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