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title: "Amit Khandelwal - Software Architect in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Amit Khandelwal on Tal

## Headline

Software Architect \| Building Scalable, reliable and highly available search, o11y and distributed platforms \| 15\+ yoe \| AWS, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch \| Distributed Systems & Data\-Intensive Platforms

## About

With over four years at Elastic\(and Opster previously\), I have focused on developing and advancing SaaS solutions and tools to optimize Elasticsearch operations\. My work includes developing\. scaling and making auto\-ops platform reliable and performant and contributing to enhanced user experiences and operational efficiency for all the customers and users of Elastic for the Autoops product\. Previously at Khoros, I led significant full\-text search based improvements and search infrastructure transformations, which includes building many new full\-text search based features and migrating from Lucene to Elasticsearch, achieving substantial cost savings and performance improvement\. My expertise spans software architecture, systems design, end to end software development, mentoring other engineers to delivering impactful, scalable and reliable software products\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

cursor

gemini

github copilot

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

Software Architect at Elastic, Jan 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, 𝐄𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 \- 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐎𝐩𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 \- 𝐍𝐨𝐯 2023\- 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 1\. Led the integration of the AutoOps platform into Elastic Cloud, Enabling rollout of AutoOps to Elastic’s largest cloud region\(10k\+ enterprise deployments\) \(AWS us\-east\-1\) within 6 months of the acquisition by Architecting and developing the metrics collector deployment from self\-managed deployment\(customer owned\) to a fully managed service\. 2\. Drove cross\-team collaboration and architecture decisions to scale the AutoOps platform to 40\+ cloud regions \(100K\+ enterprise deployments\) across AWS, GCP, and Azure within 2 years of the acquisition serving millions of enterprise users while upholding strict availability, performance and cost SLAs\. 3\. Reduced network infrastructure costs by 10x, saving \~2M USD per year, by moving metrics collector traffic to a private link instead of public network for 50k metric collector deployments across 10\+ cloud regions\. 4\. Drove AutoOps feature/reachitecture work to support all major Elasticsearch distributions \(Serverless, self‑managed, and in‑progress on‑prem\), unlocking new use cases and increasing product adoption across the full Elasticsearch customer base\. 𝐎𝐩𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 – 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 · 𝐅𝐞𝐛 2022 – 𝐍𝐨𝐯 2023 1\. Joined as a founding engineer, working closely with engineering and product teams to architect and develop the AutoOps platform, a SaaS search observability solution for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch\. 2\. Built AutoOps from 0→1 and scaled it into production usage with enterprise\-paying customers\. 3\. Created community tools for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch \(Cluster Checkup, Slow Log Analyzer, Template Optimizer\) used by 100K\+ users, improving troubleshooting experience and driving inbound demand for the paid AutoOps product\.

Lead Software Engineer at Khoros, Sep 2020 \- Aug 2021 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, 1\. Lead the community search team, which powered the communities of fortune 100 companies\. Some of the customers were Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Airbnb\. 2\. Led the migration from a custom Lucene‑based search stack to Elasticsearch, Significantly reducing infrastructure cost\(\~1\.5M USD per year\), and simplifying operational complexity from running two search engines, and enabling faster, safer feature development on a single, standardised distributed and performant platform Elasticsearch\. 3\. Improved the performance of Elasticsearch deployment by \~10X without adding additional hardware, that too while onboarding new customers all the time and supporting the ongoing increase in the load\. 4\. Acted a SPOC for all the Elasticsearch related queries in the community platform and helped other scrum teams write efficient software features on top of our Elasticsearch\.

Senior Engineer at Khoros, Mar 2019 \- Aug 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\. Lead the Lucene migration project\. 2\. Fixed several critical performance issues in Elasticsearch, that lead to the 5X performance gain overall, and for some customers, it improved search performance by 20X\.

SDE\-3 at Khoros, Sep 2017 \- Feb 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\. Brought one of the critical most piece\(search platform\) of community platform from San Francisco\(HQ\) to Bangalore\. 2\. Setup the entire search team from scratch in Bangalore, and grew it from 1 person to 10 person within 6 months of forming the team\. 3\. Designed, Developed and launched several search features using Elasticsearch\. 4\. Mentored, and motivated other engineers in the team\. 5\. Became the SME of community search\.

Senior Software Engineer at Souq\.com, May 2015 \- Mar 2016 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\. Worked in the catalogue team to build various java based micro\-services for scaling the read/write operations and deployed them in AWS\. 2\. Improved the latency of catalogue read from few seconds to within 100ms under peak load, while decreasing the infra cost by 40%\. 3\. Built several REST APIs for external teams consumption\. 4\. Built catalogue de\-dupe system, that enhanced uploading the bulk catalogue performance by 5X

Software Engineer at Amazon, Feb 2013 \- Jun 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos, Hyderabad, Worked in payee management team, and developed several features using Java and internal frameworks\. Worked on the initiative to improve the performance of the system and reduce the bug counts, and participated in the on\-call schedules\.

Software Engineer at Infosys, Aug 2010 \- Feb 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Joined Infosys Banking product Finacle used by more than 100 local and global banks across the world\. Worked as a full stack developer and developed several features end to end\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Information Technology, M\.B\.M\. Engineering College, Jodhpur

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