Angela Chuang
Software Engineer at Elastic
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAngela Chuang is a software engineer based in London with 11 years of industry experience and over five years contributing to large-scale open source projects. She currently works at Elastic, where she has focused on backend development and security engineering for the widely used Kibana platform, improving popover functionality, patching endpoint exception vulnerabilities, and raising test coverage. Her background spans full-stack and frontend roles at BBC, KKBOX and Yahoo!, delivering isomorphic React apps, server-side rendering, e‑commerce payment integrations, and performance optimizations for high-traffic portals. Angela combines practical security-first engineering with a strong product mindset—she routinely balances usability improvements with hardening code and automating tests. She holds an MSc in Design and Digital Media from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Management Information Systems, which helps her bridge user-facing design considerations with robust backend systems. Colleagues would note she brings both deep codebase familiarity and a knack for turning research or prototypes into production-quality features.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Design and Digital Media, Master of Science (MSc), Design and Digital Media at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Science (BSc), Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Management Information Systems at National Chung Cheng University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
it-security10
unit-testing10
kibana10
security10
react9
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1163 reviews, 436 commits, 1255 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Angela's commits primarily focused on enhancing the security features of the Kibana platform. They implemented features to improve popover functionality within security solutions and addressed vulnerabilities related to endpoint exceptions. They also improved the code by adding unit tests and making sure tests are aligned with code logic. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the codebase and a commitment to improving security and usability.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
angorayc/kibana
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
:bar_chart: Kibana analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch
Contributions:3043 commits, 5 PRs, 3541 pushes in 3 years 10 months
analyticschartelasticbar-chartkibana
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