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name: Binlong Gao
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**Binlong Gao** is an AWS software development engineer working on the OpenSearch Project. He is a previous contributor to the Elasticsearch project and is experienced in operating and optimizing Elasticsearch. Currently, he focuses on the Index Management plugin and other OpenSearch plugins.