Surya Nistala
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, United States
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Top SchoolSurya Nistala is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems, currently focused on AWS OpenSearch in Bengaluru. He progressed through multiple engineering roles at AWS since 2020 and contributes as a maintainer to the OpenSearch project, blending product-grade service development with open-source stewardship. Prior roles in adtech at Hotstar and Media.net sharpened his expertise in high-throughput, low-latency systems and real-time data processing. Early research internships gave him hands-on experience with chaos testing, automated deployment, and analytics pipelines—skills he continues to apply to cloud-native architectures. Comfortable across backend services, databases, and deployment automation, he combines rigorous engineering with a knack for practical tooling that improves developer productivity. Known for shipping reliable systems at scale, he brings both enterprise experience and active community contribution to search and observability infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Delhi Public School, Hyderabad
English, Telugu, Hindi, Tamil
Stackoverflow
21reputation
5kreached
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Github Skills (67)
opensearch10
authentication10
security10
indices10
audit-logging10
async10
ppl10
eventlog10
notification10
rest10
meilisearch10
search-engine10
periodic10
opensearch-dashboards10
alerts10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eirsep/security-analytics
Sep 2022 - Jun 2025
Contributions:6 reviews, 5 PRs, 263 pushes in 2 years 9 months
opendistro-for-elasticsearch/asynchronous-search
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
:arrow_forward: Asynchronous search makes it possible for users to run queries in the background, allowing users to track the progress, and retrieve partial results as they become available.
Contributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 28 commits in 4 months
asynchronous
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