Authors List

Authors List

Authors

  • Neel Shah is a DevOps engineer with a great passion for building communities around DevOps. An organizer of Google Cloud Gandhinagar, CNCF Gandhinagar, Hashicorp User Group Gandhinagar, and Open Source Weekend, Neel has served as a mentor for 15+ hackathons and open-source programs. He has also presented at more than 15 conferences, such as KubeCon India, OpenSearchCon Korea 2025, PlatformCon 2024, DevFest, HashiTalk India, LinuxFest Northwest, 90 Days of DevOps, and many more.

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  • Nick Knize is a Principal Engineer at AWS, and a committer and PMC member for the Apache Lucene project. He is a core maintainer for OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards.

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  • Freelance software architect with long track record in security and infrastructure software. Interested in finding optimal solutions which combine broad functionality with a user-centric view. Track record of many years in security software via collaborations with Search Guard and Eliatra.

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  • Nina Mishra is a scientist at Amazon interested in machine learning algorithms and healthcare.

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  • Nithya Ruff leads the open source program office at Amazon. On the board of the Linux Foundation.

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  • Nitin Chandra is a senior product manager with Amazon Web Services.

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  • Noah Staveley is a Cloud Development Engineer currently working on the OpenSearch Optimization team at Intel.

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  • Orcun is a principal engineer at AWS working on open source observability including but not limited to OpenSearch, Prometheus, Cortex, OpenTelemetry.

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  • Owais Kazi is a Software Engineer at AWS, focusing on OpenSearch and OpenSearch plugins.

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  • Pakshi Rajan is the Vice President of Products at Titaniam. Titaniam uses data-in-use encryption to breach-proof enterprise search platforms.

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  • Pallavi Priyadarshini is the Director of Search at the OpenSearch Project and Amazon OpenSearch Service, where she leads the development of high-performance data plane technologies at the core of the search engine - spanning indexing, search, storage, and release engineering. She is currently driving the modernization of search through vector search, semantic search, and agentic retrieval, while making large-scale log analytics significantly more cost-effective. With deep expertise in distributed systems and database technologies, Pallavi is passionate about building open-source technologies that power mission-critical search and analytics workloads worldwide.

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  • Parth Shah is a Sr.Technical Account Manager at AWS supporting Strategic customers. Parth has worked closely with the AWS speciality organization to promote and support Opensearch.

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  • Partha Kanuparthy

    Partha Kanuparthy is a Principal Engineer working on database services at Amazon Web Services. His work spans distributed systems and databases, networking and machine learning. He actively contributes to open source software, and most recently, Open Distro for Elasticsearch.

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  • Patrick Walsh is the CEO of IronCore Labs, a data privacy platform for protecting data that lives in the cloud. The platform secures data stored in OpenSearch and other services without sacrificing the ability to use that data. Patrick has more than 20 years of experience building security products and enterprise SaaS solutions. Prior to IronCore Labs, Patrick ran an engineering division in the Oracle Cloud.

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  • Patrik Blomberg is a Lead Engineer at Klarna, where he architects and develops near-real-time platforms for time-series anomaly detection and alerting.

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  • Patti Juric is Senior Marketing Content Manager for the OpenSearch Project, where she leads content, events, and partner strategy. She serves on the OpenSearch Software Foundation Marketing Committee and chairs the Program Committee for the Linux Foundation's Observability Summit. Outside of work, she's a wife, mom to three mostly-grown kids, and dog mom of two very fluffy Goldendoodles—all of whom keep her busy with soccer, volleyball, and walks

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  • Paul Aubrey is an VP of Product Management at Instaclustr and Product Manager for OpenSearch.

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  • Pavan Yekbote

    Pavan Yekbote is a Software Engineer at AWS working on the OpenSearch Project. He primarily works on OpenSearch's machine learning plugins (ml-commons). He is passionate about distributed systems, machine learning, and big data.

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  • Pavani Baddepudi

    Pavani Baddepudi is a senior product manager working on search services at AWS. Her interests are distributed systems, networking and security.

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