Career - Tag - Mihir Soni

From X-Pack Removal to GA: Five Months, 82 PRs

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

On January 30th, 2021, I merged a PR called “Remove x-pack directory” into a repo that had existed for about five hours. Today, July 12th, AWS put out “OpenSearch 1.0 launches”, and opensearch.org posted its own GA announcement. Between those two dates I merged 82 pull requests into OpenSearch Dashboards. Writing down the whole arc here while it’s still fresh:

The First Commit

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:00:00 +0000

On January 14th, 2021, Elastic announced they were changing the license on Elasticsearch and Kibana. No more Apache 2.0 — going forward it’d be the Elastic License or SSPL instead.

I remember hearing about it at work and thinking, okay, that’s a big deal, but I didn’t know yet that it was about to become my problem.

Sixteen days later, on January 30th, I merged PR #6 — “Remove x-pack directory” — into a brand new repo called opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards. The repo had been created less than five hours earlier. I checked the timestamps later: repo created 22:10 UTC, my PR merged 02:58 UTC. Under five hours from “this repo exists” to “here’s the first commit.”

Building a CLI So I Didn't Have to Click Through Kibana

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:00:00 +0000

Open Distro for Elasticsearch launched on March 11th, 2019, and Alerting was one of the plugins that shipped on day one. Two weeks after that, on March 25th, I merged my first PR against it — support for Kibana 6.6.2. Over the next six months I kept shipping PRs against the alerting Kibana plugin, mostly chasing whatever Kibana version had just shipped: 6.7.1 in April, 7.0.1 in May, plus a steady stream of smaller fixes — where-clause support for visual monitors, a monitor update bug, moving the schedule field per UX feedback.

New Life Began

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:36:47 +0530

I finally started my job on June 6th, 2011, at Maxim Integrated Circuits as an IT engineer. An awesome experience. On my first day I was introduced to my colleagues and went through all the HR formalities. For the first time, I’d get paid for work I love doing. I got my last-semester result and would soon get my (provisional) degree certificate 😉 — done with studies. No more exam tension, no more assignment submissions, but a bit more responsibility at work. Currently working on C#.NET and ASP.NET.

Last Semester Internship

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:20:29 +0530

Hello,

I haven’t blogged about myself in a while — where am I, what am I doing these days? Well, I’m currently in my last semester of my master’s, which is an industrial internship. I was recruited by PMC for an internship in Baroda (Vadodara), so three of us from my class went. Two classmates were from the same city, so they weren’t worried about accommodation. I’m from Ahmedabad, so I had to find a PG. I found one near my office with help from Anish, my classmate and now colleague at the company. 😉

Since July 2010 to Jan 2011

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:39:28 +0530

Hello,

I’ve been busy with my third semester and placements, so I wasn’t able to write on my blog. I was very tense about my career and placements — in our college, placements started in July 2010, and I was waiting with interest for a company.

In September, a company called Paul Mason Consulting (PMC) visited our campus, and I sat for that company on a .NET profile and was selected as an intern. I still wasn’t fully satisfied, since I didn’t have a proper job offer yet. Then, in the last week of September, I found out that a company called MAXIM-IC was going to visit our campus, and I was excited because it was completely .NET-based. At the time of registration I was told I wasn’t eligible, and I was sad, but somehow I got a chance to sit for it anyway. So I prepared for that company. On the 4th of October, 11:00 AM, I went to the exam hall very tense. The test took about an hour, and after three hours I got the result — I was shortlisted for the interview. There were four panels of interviewers, and I had to face each one, turn by turn. 😅 I successfully cleared all the interviews and got selected at MAXIM-IC as a Software Engineer. 🙂