Owais Kazi
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOwais Kazi is a software engineer specializing in backend and full-stack development, currently building extensible plugin and GenAI infrastructure for AWS OpenSearch. He combines hands-on contributions to the OpenSearch core and build systems with production work at AWS, including migrating plugins to extensions and releasing opensearch-sdk-java. His background spans serverless architectures, performance testing automation (cutting manual effort by ~80%), and building scalable APIs in Go, Python and Java across startups and media giants like HBO. A pragmatic open-source maintainer, he focuses on stability and automation—evident from his work on cluster allocation fixes, test integration, and CI improvements for a major open-source search engine. Based in Seattle, he pairs an MS in Computer Science from ASU with a track record of turning legacy systems into lean, testable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
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Github Skills (29)
search-engine10
github-ci10
amazon-elasticsearch10
java10
performance-testing10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
ci-cd-pipeline10
elasticsearch10
githubaction-workflow10
elasticsearch-api10
test-automation10
testing9
aws-cdk9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/OpenSearch
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:806 reviews, 53 commits, 220 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Owais primarily focused on code maintenance and improvement tasks within the OpenSearch project. Their contributions involved running and excluding checkstyle in various modules, including server, client, and plugins, likely to maintain code quality and formatting standards. The user also addressed specific issues related to cluster allocation and data streams, demonstrating a focus on stability and functionality of the search engine. Furthermore, they contributed to test cases and the handling of status codes related to properties, indicating a concern for software robustness.
analyticsrestfulfosssearch-engineapache2
opensearch-project/opensearch-build
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
🧰 OpenSearch / OpenSearch-Dashboards Build Systems
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:213 reviews, 20 commits, 44 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Owais primarily contributed to the build and test automation infrastructure of the OpenSearch project. Their work includes integrating type checking with mypy, creating performance testing workflows, and adding support for the test results upload to S3. They also made changes to facilitate integration tests, ensuring the project's quality. The contributions demonstrate a focus on streamlining testing processes and improving the reliability of the build system.
dashboardsopensearch-dashboardsbuild-systemsopensearchdashboard
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