Ash M
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolAsh M is a Principal Software Engineer based in Copenhagen with 11 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems and shipping features at Elastic, including backend security enhancements for the widely used Kibana project. He combines deep theoretical expertise—designing and analyzing algorithms for combinatorially hard problems and applying formal methods with theorem provers—with practical engineering skills in distributed systems, CI/CD, and frontend-to-backend development. At Elastic he progressed from JavaScript security engineering to senior and principal roles, driving API controls, response-action scanning, and agent-status improvements that bridge product quality and security. Ash is drawn to applied computational mathematics and automated planning for multi-agent systems, and he brings that research mindset to pragmatic engineering problems across stack and teams. He also has hands-on experience in cryptographic design and arithmetic processor specification, an unusual mix that helps him translate formal guarantees into deployable software. Curious by nature, he treats challenging puzzles—mechanical or software—as opportunities to reverse-engineer reliable, elegant solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Technical University of DenmarkBSc Electrical Electronics and Computer Engineering, BSc Electrical Electronics and Computer Engineering at American International University of Management and Technology
English, Danish
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Github Skills (23)
apidoc10
amazon-elasticsearch10
it-security10
security10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
api-design9
restful-api9
back-end-development9
api-rest9
rest-api9
api-security9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:2497 reviews, 117 commits, 551 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ash primarily focused on enhancing the security solution's endpoint response actions. Their contributions involved fixing UI flickers, improving agent status information, updating the table view, adding date filters, and implementing API access controls. Key areas of focus included integrating a response action scan feature, which involved implementing server-side handling of the scan operation and updating the API accordingly.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
deic-dk-retired/ddosapi
Dec 2016 - Jul 2018
Data API for https://github.com/deic-dk/gossamer
Contributions:152 commits, 4 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 year 7 months
golangapidata-apigossamer
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