Sean Story
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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RockstarSean Story is a Technical Lead at Elastic based in Nashville with 10 years of experience building ETL, distributed systems, and search ingestion platforms. He rose through engineering roles at Elastic to lead the Search: Extract & Transform team and has owned projects like the Elastic Web Crawler and Workplace Search connectors. An active open-source contributor to the Elastic Stack, Sean implemented ingest pipeline definitions in Kibana and added pipeline-awareness and CI/lint improvements to the official Elastic connectors, blending backend, DevOps, and data-processing expertise. Prior roles include architecting low-latency streaming ETL and data reconciliation for millions of documents and leading release and standardization efforts. He’s driven by a conviction that technology can improve society and explores gamification as a lever for more efficient education.
11 years of coding experience
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typescript310
javascript10
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elasticsearch710
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amazon-elasticsearch10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/connectors
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Official Elastic connectors for third-party data sources
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:917 reviews, 23 commits, 482 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sean contributed to the backend functionality of the Elastic connectors project, as evidenced by changes to the test runner and BYO connector implementations, suggesting interaction with service logic and configuration. They introduced pipeline awareness, refactoring code to integrate data processing pipelines within the connectors. Furthermore, the user updated testing configurations and added linting to the CI process, exhibiting an interest in improving the build pipeline and code quality.
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elastic/kibana
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 15 commits, 62 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sean's primary contribution focused on implementing and defining ingest pipeline definitions within the Kibana repository. They created and modified pipeline definitions, including those for enterprise search functionality. This involved writing code to extract binary content, reduce whitespace, and run machine learning inference, leveraging the Elasticsearch client. They also worked on creating and integrating a pipeline creation endpoint, demonstrating familiarity with the Kibana's server-side architecture.
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