Name: Melbourne Search & AI Meetup #2 - Hosted by Atlassian
Start: 2025-09-23T17:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-23T19:30:00+10:00

Hello, and welcome to the second Melbourne Search & AI User Group Meetup.

Below you will find the agenda + talk summaries

**Location: IN PERSON ONLY. There will be no streaming of this meetup**
Level 20
Queen & Collins Tower
100 Queen Street

**Agenda:**
**5:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Arrivals, Networking, Pizza & Drinks**
**6:00 PM – 6:05 PM: Welcome & Housekeeping**
**6:05 PM – 6:35 PM: First Speaker -** Huy Nguyen, Atlassian
**6:35 PM – 6:50 PM: Second Speaker -** Bart Breen, Atlassian
**6.50 - 7.10 PM:** Third Speaker - TBC
**7:10 PM – 7:30 PM Wrap-up & Networking**

**First Talk:** How Atlassian operates self-hosted OpenSearch at scale

**Speaker:** Huy Nguyen: Technical Lead at Atlassian
Connect with Huy: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/huy-nguyen-073a9023/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/huy-nguyen-073a9023/)

**Summary:** In this session, we will share how our architecture efficiently provisions and manages OpenSearch clusters at scale in Atlassian. We will also discuss how we address reliability and operational scalability through resilient infrastructure and comprehensive monitoring. Additionally, we will highlight how we leverage and extend open-source software, and outline our plans to contribute back to the OpenSearch community, reinforcing our commitment to innovation and collaboration.

**Second Talk:** OpenSearch image authoring: Taking control of the supply chain.

**Speaker:** Bart Breen: Senior Engineer at Atlassian, passionate about cloud infrastructure and practice.
Connect with Bart: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-breen/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-breen/)

**Summary:** Ever wondered how OpenSearch images are built, and contain all the plugins they do? In this session, we’ll talk about how we built Atlassian’s OpenSearch Image Pipeline to allow for greater control of the dependencies and patching process, and the challenges along the way.

We will share the online recording of the sessions after the event.

liam anderson

Poppy Martono

Melbourne Search & AI User Group

OpenSearch Project

Technology

Open Source

New Technology

Apache Lucene

Information Technology

Web Technology

Big Data

Data Management

Melbourne Search & AI Meetup #2 - Hosted by Atlassian

Atlassian Melbourne 

Share

Melbourne Search & AI User Group

Melbourne Search & AI Meetup #2 - Hosted by Atlassian

Melbourne Search & AI User Group

Details

Members are also interested in