Bukhtawar Khan
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBukhtawar Khan is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, large-scale distributed systems at AWS, progressing from SDE II to Principal since 2016. He focuses on backend engineering and system reliability, with hands-on contributions to the high-profile OpenSearch project where he fixed critical bugs, prevented circuit breaker trips, and added health thresholds to avoid cluster stalls. Based in Bengaluru, he combines production-grade Java expertise with a track record of improving fault tolerance and operational robustness in search and storage systems. Known for pragmatic changes to core server code and tests, he brings both deep technical ownership and a keen eye for preventing production incidents.
11 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
85reputation
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6answers
7questions
Github Skills (18)
search-engine10
amazon-elasticsearch10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
testing9
analytics9
jetty6
amazon-dynamodb6
hibernate6
end-of-life6
concatenation6
Programming languages (10)
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:2279 reviews, 17 commits, 291 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.
restrestfulsearch-enginesearchanalytics
Bukhtawar/OpenSearch
Jul 2021 - Jul 2026
Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Contributions:498 pushes, 89 branches in 5 years
restrestfulsearch-engine
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