Bishoy Boktor is a Software Development Engineer II based in San Diego with five years of professional experience building secure, production-grade systems at Amazon and AWS. He combines backend engineering rigor with open-source sensibilities, having contributed to the OpenSearch Dashboards project by removing telemetry components and cleaning backend tests—work that reflects attention to privacy and maintainability. His background spans security-focused foundational services at Amazon, cloud platform development at AWS, and prior roles in healthcare, aerospace research (NASA), and machine learning, highlighting a strong cross-domain adaptability. Early research on biologically plausible working memory and hands-on mobile development show a blend of theoretical curiosity and practical delivery. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prioritizes clean, auditable code and thoughtful removal of legacy features to reduce surface area and technical debt.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University
📊 Open source visualization dashboards for OpenSearch.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:230 reviews, 70 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Bishoy's primary contribution involved the removal of telemetry publishing and telemetry-related components from the application's advanced settings and other areas. The commits demonstrate work focused on the backend, specifically targeting the "telemetry" plugin, its service, and related tests. The code changes also included modifications in test files, suggesting a focus on cleanup and removal of features related to data collection and reporting within the application.
Open source visualization dashboards for OpenSearch.
Contributions:1 PR, 55 pushes, 21 branches in 11 months
visualizationdashboardsopensearchdashboard
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Bishoy Boktor - Software Development Engineer II at Amazon