Bukhtawar Khan
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolBukhtawar Khan is a Principal Engineer at AWS in Bengaluru with 10 years of experience building distributed back-end systems and improving production reliability. He rose through SDE II and Sr. SDE roles at Amazon after earlier engineering positions at Snapdeal, Philips Healthcare and OnMobile, and holds a BTech in Computer Engineering from Cochin University. An active contributor to the high-profile OpenSearch project, he has shipped core Java fixes that prevent circuit breaker trips, enforce scroll limits, and add filesystem health thresholds that trigger leader elections to avoid cluster stalls. He blends hands-on production debugging with architectural thinking to drive fault-tolerance and operational robustness in cloud-scale search and data platforms.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
D.A.V Public SchoolBachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering, 74.3%, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering, 74.3% at Cochin University of Science and Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
search-engine10
debug10
elasticsearch710
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch810
elasticsearchapi10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch510
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch610
elasticsearch210
testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/OpenSearch
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2190 reviews, 17 commits, 279 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bukhtawar contributed to the OpenSearch project by implementing bug fixes and improving system reliability. Their work included preventing circuit breaker trips by modifying a fundamental API, resolving a max scroll limit breach by throwing an appropriate exception, and introducing a health threshold to detect filesystem issues and trigger leader elections to prevent cluster stalls. The user's contributions involved modifying core Java code within the server and test codebases.
analyticsrestfulfosssearch-engineapache2
Bukhtawar/OpenSearch
Jul 2021 - Mar 2025
Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Contributions:280 pushes, 64 branches in 3 years 8 months
restfulsearch-engineelasticsearchsearchdistributed
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