# Carl Meadows (slim)

> Carl Meadows is director of Product Management for OpenSearch; Foundation Governing Board Chair. OpenSearch on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Director of Product Management for OpenSearch; Foundation Governing Board Chair.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlfmeadows
- X: https://x.com/Carl_F_Meadows

## What Carl builds

- [OpenSearch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opensearch.md), graded B, 68.4/100, in Retrieval & vector search. OpenSearch is an open-source search and analytics engine with vector, text and hybrid search, run by its owner. Agents reach it through a REST API, official clients, an OpenSearch MCP Server and an MCP endpoint inside the cluster. Director of Product Management for OpenSearch; Foundation Governing Board Chair, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Andrew Ross](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrew-ross/), Principal Engineer at AWS; OpenSearch developer and technical-governance representative

## Questions

### Who is Carl Meadows?

Carl Meadows is director of Product Management for OpenSearch; Foundation Governing Board Chair.

### What does OpenSearch Project / OpenSearch Software Foundation make?

Anchor Terminal lists OpenSearch from OpenSearch Project / OpenSearch Software Foundation.

### How are Carl's tools graded?

OpenSearch is graded B, 68.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://opensearch.org/foundation/
- https://github.com/andrross
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-ross-781ab1a/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-ross-781ab1a
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlfmeadows
- https://twitter.com/Carl_F_Meadows
- https://opensearch.org/
- https://opensearch.org/about/

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