LukeĀ Elmers
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Elmers is a full-stack engineering leader and tech lead based in Boulder, Colorado, with 15+ years of shipping software across agencies, startups, and enterprise environments. He currently serves as Tech Lead and Principal Software Engineer at Elastic, architecting Kibana, Cloud UI, and AutoOps platform services while previously leading platform and application teams. Luke has managed developer teams that built big-budget digital experiences for Fortune 500 clients and sustained a long-running freelance practice serving small businesses and non-profits, blending product-facing delivery with deep technical ownership. An active contributor to the flagship open-source Kibana project, he focuses on core infrastructure improvementsāupgrading ECS logging and adding deprecation warnings to smooth upgrades and improve maintainability. Comfortable across TypeScript/Node/React, Go, Python and cloud infrastructure, he pairs hands-on engineering with platform-level architecture. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and skilled at turning complex systems into stable, upgrade-friendly platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Integrated Marketing Communications, Theatre (minor), B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Integrated Marketing Communications, Theatre (minor) at Ithaca College
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
elasticsearch710
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch810
configuration-management10
elasticsearchapi10
kibana10
elasticsearchquery10
javascripts10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch510
logging10
elasticsearch610
elasticsearch210
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:999 reviews, 295 commits, 734 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Luke's commits primarily focus on modifying configuration deprecation warnings and upgrading the logging system within the Kibana project. They implemented changes to log deprecation warnings for plugins that won't be disable-able in future versions, ensuring a smooth upgrade path. Further contributions involved upgrading the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) logging to the latest version, and removing deprecated settings. This indicates a focus on core application infrastructure and ensuring the system's stability and maintainability.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
lukeelmers/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 9 years
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