Bryce Buchanan
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBryce Buchanan is a Principal Software Engineer based in Beaverton, Oregon, with over a decade of full-stack experience and a clear specialization in iOS development. He has led mobile-focused engineering at Elastic since 2020 after nearly eight years building observability and platform features at New Relic. Bryce contributes to prominent open-source projects—adding mobile APM UI components to Elastic’s Kibana and enhancing OpenTelemetry Swift with metric exporters and gauge support—demonstrating strength across front-end mobile UX and back-end telemetry. His early career shipped dozens of native iOS apps for major media clients and produced a reusable internal framework and caching suite that substantially sped development. Comfortable with both hands-on implementation and cross-team delivery, he pairs deep Objective-C/Swift expertise with a practical automation mindset from build engineering and tooling work. Notably, he blends product-focused UI work with low-level telemetry plumbing, making him effective at improving both user-facing diagnostics and backend observability.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (36)
javascript10
performance-monitor10
mobile-development10
application-monitoring10
kibana10
apm10
opentelemetry10
swift10
performance-monitoring10
react10
metric10
ui-design9
typescript9
typescript-types9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-swift
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
OpenTelemetry API for Swift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 128 reviews, 72 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Bryce primarily worked on the OpenTelemetry Swift repository, making contributions focused on enhancing metric and logging capabilities. They implemented the OtlpMetricExporter, refactored metric APIs, and added support for gauge metrics. Further, the user added functionality for headers configuration in the OTLP exporters and improved the overall support for iOS platforms.
apitracingswiftopentelemetry-apiopentelemetry
elastic/kibana
Jun 2021 - Apr 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 69 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bryce contributed to the Kibana repository, primarily focusing on features related to mobile APM (Application Performance Monitoring). Their work includes implementing new UI components and widgets for mobile crash and error analysis, specifically adding features like crash widgets and error rate charts. Furthermore, the user made code changes that added settings and improved mobile UI rendering and performance, demonstrating a focus on the mobile APM product.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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