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 with 11 years of professional experience, currently guiding backend architecture and delivery at Elastic from Greater Boston. He specializes in backend systems, stability, and observability—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile open-source Kibana project focused on Elasticsearch client configuration, health checks, alerting, and telemetry. His career spans leadership and hands-on roles from CTO of a music startup to senior developer positions in payments and healthcare tech, giving him a strong mix of product sensibility and enterprise-grade engineering. Known for pragmatic bug fixes and integration work, he excels at hardening systems and improving operational visibility across distributed services.
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 (23)
back-end-development10
amazon-elasticsearch10
kibana10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
backend10
elasticsearch-api10
apidoc9
api9
devops8
nodejs7
typescript7
typescript-types7
typescripts7
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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