Rabi Panda is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale cloud and search systems, currently focused on Copilot experiences at Microsoft Research using Azure OpenAI Service. He previously contributed to AWS Search Services and was a core back-end developer on the open-source OpenSearch project, where his commits helped decouple proprietary x-pack dependencies and streamline build and test artifacts. Earlier work on Amazon Alexa improved entity resolution for voice interactions, underscoring his strengths in NLP and relevance engineering. Rabi holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne and combines deep infrastructure expertise with practical open-source discipline. Based in Redmond, he enjoys tackling complex distributed-systems problems and translating research-grade AI capabilities into usable products that impact millions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science & Engineering at Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:186 reviews, 204 commits, 168 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Rabi's commits focus on removing and cleaning up references to the "x-pack" license and related components within the OpenSearch codebase. The contributions involve modifications across various modules, including test classes and build configurations, to eliminate dependencies on the proprietary license. Additionally, the user's work extends to addressing compilation issues within tests and removing packaging tests for x-pack command-line tools, highlighting efforts to streamline the project. Furthermore, they made modifications to the request converters related to refresh policies and removing ILM policy from GetDataStreamAction Response.
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Rabi Panda - Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Research