Brandon Kobel
Tech Lead Principle Software Engineer II at Elastic
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Kobel is a Tech Lead and Principal Software Engineer II at Elastic with 11 years of experience, based in Norwood, Massachusetts. He specializes in backend engineering for large-scale search and observability systems, contributing to the elastic/kibana project with work on Elasticsearch client configuration, health checks, telemetry, and reliability fixes. His background includes CTO responsibilities at a music tech startup and senior engineering roles in payments and healthcare, giving him hands-on experience across startups and regulated industries. Notably, he focuses on pragmatic, production-first changes—often performing targeted rollbacks and bug fixes to preserve stability while iterating on monitoring and integrations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Computer Information Systems at University of Louisville
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Github Skills (31)
elasticsearch710
back-end-development10
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch810
elasticsearchapi10
kibana10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch510
elasticsearch10
back-end10
elasticsearch610
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elasticsearch210
api-doc9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Oct 2016 - Nov 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:252 reviews, 636 commits, 1539 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's contributions primarily focused on backend code changes, particularly related to the Elasticsearch client configuration and health checks. They were involved in reverting changes to the Elasticsearch client, adjusting alerting features, and adding data telemetry. Additionally, they were involved in bug fixes for the health gateway and fleet routes. These changes demonstrate a focus on system stability, monitoring, and integration with core services.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
kobelb/elasticsearch
Jun 2018 - Jun 2021
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:38 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
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