Works with many customers into implementing search engines, helping them improve efficiency and use it for various use cases from search to observability. CTO of Adelean

Anton Rubin is a distinguished cybersecurity expert known for his proficiency in navigating intricate organizational frameworks and driving technological advancement. Graduating with a Class 1 Honours degree in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, Anton embarked on his professional journey. He began by ensuring the quality of security content production, working with security giants like Symantec, where he honed his skills and expertise. Anton's journey further evolved as he transitioned into technical support roles across diverse environments, including his notable tenure as a Technical Support Engineer at Eliatra, where he is focusing on supporting OpenSearch project users. In this pivotal role, he provided crucial assistance to clients, troubleshooting complex issues and ensuring seamless operation of OpenSearch. Certified as a Kubernetes Administrator & Application Developer, he continually pursues excellence and innovation in the field, staying abreast of the latest technological trends and advancements. Passionate about continuous learning, Anton is dedicated to shaping the future of technology with his ingenuity and commitment.

Head of Technical service Delivery, with a background in penetration testing, network and security engineering as well as security analyst.

With nearly 25 years in the business of open source search, Charlie Hull helps companies across the world build powerful and accurate search engines as a Managing Consultant at OpenSource Connections, the search relevance people. He is co-author of the book 'Searching the Enterprise', a regular conference keynote speaker, prolific blogger and writer, and hosts and organises the Haystack conference series.

Daniel Doubrovkine (aka dB.) is a Principal Engineer at AWS in New York, working on OpenSearch. He is a seasoned entrepreneur, technologist and former CTO at Artsy.net. Daniel graduated from University of Geneva in late 90s with a degree in Computer Science. Daniel is the creator and maintainer of many popular open-source projects and a lifetime artist.

Daryll Swager is the Principal Product Marketer for the OpenSearch Project; his hobbies include farming, fishing, and developing his skills as a chef.

David is a senior software engineer working on observability in OpenSearch at Amazon Web Services. He is a maintainer on the Data Prepper project. Prior to working at Amazon, he was the CTO at Allogy Interactive - a start-up creating mobile-learning solutions for healthcare.

Horovits lives at the intersection of technology, product and innovation. With over 20 years in the hi-tech industry as a software developer, a solutions architect and a product manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud and cloud-native solutions, DevOps practices and more.

Horovits is an international speaker and thought leader, as well as an Ambassador of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Horovits is an avid advocate of open source and communities, an organizer of the CNCF Tel-Aviv meetup group and of Kubernetes Community Days and DevOpsDays local events, a podcaster at OpenObservability Talks, and a blogger, among others.

Working as the principal developer advocate at Logz.io, Horovits evangelizes on Observability in IT systems using popular open source projects such as OpenSearch, Prometheus, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.

Eric Pugh is the co-founder of OpenSource Connections. Today he helps OSC’s clients, especially those in the ecommerce space, build their own search teams and improve their search maturity, both by leading projects and by acting as a trusted advisor.

Fascinated by the craft of software development, Eric Pugh has been involved in the open source world as a tester, developer, committer and user for the past twenty years. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and co-authored the book Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, now on its third edition. He stewards Quepid, an open source platform for assessing and improving your search relevance.

OpenSource Connections mission to empower the world's search teams comes directly from Eric’s belief in the open source software movement, and the importance of educating people to succeed with it, so that people own their technology.

When not thinking about search, Eric likes to get his hands dirty by building furniture. His next project is a reproduction Danish modern couch, using just hand tools!

CTO at Zeta Alpha

Hariharan Gandhi is a Distributed Systems engineer. Currently serving as the Product Owner for Logging Services at SAP’s Business Technology Platform, Hariharan brings over 11 years of experience in the Software Industry, with a steadfast focus on SAP’s logging/observability needs for the past 8 years. In his previous role as an Architect, Hariharan spearheaded the replatforming of OpenSearch-based logging services to Kubernetes at scale. He holds a Master’s degree in Distributed Software Systems from the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is motivated to share his learnings and insights on leveraging OpenSearch for scalable logging services.

Ian Hoang is a software engineer at AWS working on performance tools for OpenSearch and is a maintainer for the OpenSearch Benchmark project. Outside of work, he enjoys photography, playing tennis, and spending time with his dog.

Jannik is a software developer at SAP. He works on observability services of the SAP Business Technology Platform with a special focus on OpenTelemetry. He holds a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Heidelberg.

Jon Handler is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect on the OpenSearch Service team at Amazon Web Services, based in Palo Alto, CA. Jon works closely with OpenSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing help and guidance to a broad range of customers who have search and log analytics workloads for OpenSearch. Prior to joining AWS, Jon’s career as a software developer included four years of coding a large-scale, eCommerce search engine. Jon holds a Bachelor of the Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Science and a Ph. D. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University.

I’m a digital architect who constructs scalable structures using the magic of the cloud and Python. I’m a certified cloud engineer and an enthusiastic advocate of the Python language and its environments. In addition to this, I am the leader of the PyLadies Munich chapter — a community where individuals gather to learn, share, and nurture their growth.

Lucas is a Junior 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.

Head of Code at KRUU

Enjoying life with climbing, sports with boards, mountain biking, traveling, photography, videography and software engineering

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.

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.

A product and business expert, Ohad is a visionary product leader with over 15 years of experience in driving product strategies for disruptive technologies, building strong teams and engaging people around ideas. After leading product teams at Intel, HP and Click Software and launching enterprise-grade products in new markets, Ohad set out on a new journey. He’s now introducing an enterprise-grade, AI-search acceleration engine for companies making real-time predictions and facing performance and scalability challenges.
Today, Ohad is the CEO and Co-Founder at Hyperspace.

Head of Development - SecureAck

Peter Nied is a software engineer at Amazon Web Services focusing on OpenSearch security. He is a maintainer of OpenSearch and the Security Plugin among many projects in OpenSearch Project.

I'm Pietro, a highly motivated software engineer with a passion for developing cutting-edge search engine solutions. Throughout my career, I've had the privilege of working at Adelean and the INA (French media institution responsible for preserving and promoting French audio-visual heritage), where I've gained valuable experience and honed my expertise in utilizing Elasticsearch to deliver efficient and effective search results.

My background encompasses a strong foundation in machine learning and computer vision, which allows me to incorporate intelligent algorithms into my work. I'm constantly driven to learn and expand my skillset, staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in the field.

Outside of work, I find great pleasure in reading, engaging in sports activities, and even coding for fun. These hobbies not only help me relax and recharge but also provide me with opportunities to explore new ideas and experiment with different programming techniques.

Overall, I am an enthusiastic and dedicated software engineer who thrives on solving complex problems and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in search engine development.

Seasoned software engineer and architect with strong systems design and operations background.
Experienced in highly-scalable, globally distributed environments. Currently Founding Engineer at Quesma.

I am a Senior Software Engineer in the AWS OpenSearch Core Search team. I am passionate about creating products and platforms from scratch and scaling them to handle extremely high volumes of data. In my free time I enjoy reading, playing pickleball and exploring new destinations.

Stavros Macrakis is the senior technical product manager for OpenSearch focusing on document and e-commerce search. He has worked on search for almost 20 years and is passionate about search relevance.