Brian Seeders
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Seeders is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on developer productivity, CI/CD, and cloud-native infrastructure, currently driving build and release automation at Elastic. He architected and migrated large-scale CI pipelines to Buildkite, cut company CI costs by 70% (over $1M), and built systems for near-instant remote development environments used by hundreds of engineers. Comfortable across stacks—Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Python—and clouds, he pairs hands-on DevOps work (Docker, GKE, Terraform, Ansible) with a product-minded approach to developer experience. An active contributor to high-profile Elastic projects like Elasticsearch and Kibana, he specializes in automating testing, releases, and platform-scale pipelines. Based in Cleveland, he balances engineering leadership with a personal life as a dad and lifelong video game fan.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
English
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Github Skills (24)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Sep 2019 - Aug 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:239 reviews, 1096 commits, 1373 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily focus on improving and maintaining the Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines within the Kibana repository. Their contributions include addressing errors in CI stats, enhancing test suite automation, and streamlining build processes, specifically related to Elasticsearch snapshots, and package testing. They are also responsible for setting up and managing build and deployment pipelines using Buildkite and are fixing issues in automated builds.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/elasticsearch
Dec 2019 - Apr 2025
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:139 reviews, 581 PRs, 728 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian focused on improving the CI/CD pipelines and automating various aspects of the build and release process for the Elasticsearch project. Their contributions include adding new Buildkite pipelines for tasks such as platform support and periodic testing, migrating workflows from Jenkins to Buildkite, and automating the application of code formatting. They also worked on setting up monitoring and improving the caching mechanisms, demonstrating a focus on infrastructure, automation and ensuring efficient builds.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
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