Anshu Agarwal is an experienced SDE 3 based in Bengaluru with 11 years building high-performance, scalable systems across companies including AWS, Intuit, Swiggy, Zynga and Oracle. He combines backend architecture and operational rigor—removing single points of failure, optimizing system throughput, and mentoring teams—with hands-on development in Java, Python and distributed systems. An active OpenSearch contributor, he has improved shard routing, cluster management and implemented weighted round-robin scheduling to boost search engine stability and performance. Past roles span consumer-facing order management and real-time game services to enterprise content APIs, showing a knack for shipping reliable production systems under tight constraints. He also pursues ML and deep learning upskilling via Udacity, reflecting an ongoing interest in applying data-driven techniques to system design.
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:251 reviews, 18 commits, 71 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Anshu primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the OpenSearch project, focusing on features related to shard routing and cluster management. Their commits addressed bugs in the awareness allocation decider and implemented weighted round-robin scheduling for shard coordination traffic. Furthermore, the user added APIs for managing shard routing weights and addressed deserialization issues. This indicates a focus on optimizing the performance and stability of the search engine's core functionalities.
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Anshu Agarwal - SDE 3 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)