Alexander Wert
Director Software Engineering at Elastic
Stuttgart Region Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Wert is a Director of Software Engineering based in the Stuttgart region with 11 years of experience focused on APM, monitoring and observability. He has progressed from researcher and consultant roles to leading engineering teams at Elastic, driving both product and community initiatives like OpenAPM and the open-source inspectIT Ocelot. Technically hands-on, Alexander contributes to high-profile projects such as Elastic's Kibana and the APM Java agent, improving observability UIs and tracing for frameworks like Vert.x. He excels at shaping composable, open solutions and translating customer needs at renowned companies into production-grade instrumentation and dashboards. Known for combining strategic leadership with deep implementation experience, he prefers pragmatic, extensible architectures over monolithic tooling. Outside typical management duties, he still actively refactors core integrations and ships feature-level improvements that directly enhance developer and operator workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, English, Russian
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Github Skills (38)
javascript10
performance-monitor10
dashboard10
observability10
tracer10
instrumentation10
application-monitoring10
kibana10
java10
apm10
javas10
performance-monitoring10
vertx10
trace10
react10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/apm-agent-java
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 40 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the instrumentation of the Vert.x Web framework, including the handling of web client interactions. Their work involved implementing tracing functionality within Vert.x, such as capturing request data and creating spans for web client calls. The user also made improvements to existing code, including optimizations, refactoring, and bug fixes to enhance the APM agent's compatibility and performance.
agentapmelasticjava-agenttracing
elastic/kibana
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 9 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on enhancing the Kibana UI, implementing features and fixing bugs related to APM and observability dashboards. They made modifications to components like waterfall visualizations, service maps, and service overview pages. The contributions included adding new features, such as support for mobile synthtrace scenarios, Azure Functions, and OpenTelemetry data. They also worked on improving the display of stack traces and refactoring internal configurations.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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