Athena Brown
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAthena Brown is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and hardening distributed systems, currently driving backend and security work at Elastic. She brings deep Java expertise and practical mastery of NoSQL databases, with a track record of improving reliability and performance in large-scale network monitoring and search infrastructure. At NETSCOUT she led features from license management to automated update delivery and significantly reworked components to boost database reliability. As an active contributor to the widely used Elastic/Elasticsearch project, her commits enhanced snapshot metadata handling and tightened security validations—demonstrating both product-level impact and open-source discipline. Based in Colorado Springs, she pairs technical depth with program management experience mentoring early-career engineers and is pursuing an MS in Computer Science to broaden her systems and research grounding.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.7, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.7, Cum Laude at Seattle Pacific UniversityAssociate of Science (AS), General Studies, Associate of Science (AS), General Studies at Shoreline Community CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, (In Progress), Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, (In Progress) at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
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Github Skills (18)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
amazon-elasticsearch10
java10
security10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
system-design9
versioning8
seq6
datomic6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:472 reviews, 570 commits, 1017 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Athena's commits primarily focus on adding and modifying snapshot-related functionality within the Elasticsearch codebase. These changes involve enhancing the snapshot metadata to store custom user-provided data, alongside fixing version restrictions to properly handle and maintain the existing snapshot metadata field. Their contributions also involve working on and improving the security aspects of the project by adding a validation to prevent disabling own users from the put user API.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
gwbrown/elasticsearch
Aug 2018 - Jan 2025
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 839 pushes in 6 years 6 months
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
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