Kartik Ganesh
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKartik Ganesh is a Senior Software Development Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building customer-facing eCommerce and media services and recent focus on open-source search and messaging platforms. He led end-to-end initiatives at Amazon—launching Amazon Prints and scaling Amazon Explore into a 250+ experience marketplace—while modernizing core Shopping Cart, Checkout, and fulfillment backends. More recently he contributed to OpenSearch core features like Segment Replication and migration tooling, and fixed subtle multi-node and Grok processor bugs in the flagship opensearch-project/OpenSearch repository. Known for stepping into ambiguity and shipping pragmatic, scalable solutions, he combines deep backend systems expertise with a knack for simplifying monoliths into reusable SaaS components. Now at AWS Amazon MQ, he continues to work on distributed systems and platform reliability, bringing both product sensibility and open-source craftsmanship to complex migrations and cluster-level problems.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at PSG College of Technology
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (14)
javas10
search-engine10
debug10
analytics10
java10
grok10
lucene9
test-automation8
gradle8
gradlew8
data-structure7
algorithm7
data-structures7
algorithms7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/OpenSearch
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:311 reviews, 41 commits, 215 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Kartik primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the `opensearch-project/opensearch` repository, a RESTful search engine. They addressed a stack overflow issue in the Grok processor by refactoring the circular reference check using a depth-first traversal and included checks for malformed patterns. The user also worked on fixing support for a multi-node cluster by using deterministic port values and updating seed host values in the Gradle run task. Further contributions included refactoring gated and ref-counted interfaces.
analyticsrestfulfosssearch-engineapache2
kartg/opensearch-migrations
Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
All things migrations and upgrades for OpenSearch
Contributions:1 PR, 299 pushes, 66 branches in 10 months
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