Colton Myers
Software Engineering Manager at Elastic
South Jordan, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolColton Myers is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building observability and automation systems, currently shaping Observability at Elastic. A longtime open-source contributor and Salt core engineer, he created HubbleStack and has driven meaningful improvements across Elastic APM and Kibana telemetry. He blends deep Python expertise with systems and DevOps experience—improving fileserver integrations for Azure/S3, hardening AWS Lambda traces, and fixing subtle HTTPS edge cases. Known for pragmatic, production-focused changes, he pairs a tinkerer’s curiosity (basepi.net) with leadership experience managing observability analytics teams. Based in Lehi, Utah, he brings both hands-on coding and cross-team delivery skills to complex, data-driven platforms.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
performance-monitor10
python10
amazon-elasticsearch10
configuration-management10
cloud-infrastructure10
instrumentation10
application-monitoring10
kibana10
apm10
elasticsearchquery10
infrastructure10
saltstack10
amazon-s310
aws-elasticsearch10
aws-s310
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/apm-agent-python
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 419 reviews, 195 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Colton primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Elastic APM agent for Python. They addressed issues related to HTTP request handling, specifically fixing edge cases in HTTPS URL handling. Key contributions include adding support for truncating dictionary data, enhancing exception handling, improving code clarity, and integrating logging with both the standard logging module and the structlog library. Furthermore, the user made various improvements to the AWS Lambda integration.
pythonagentapmdjangoelastic
saltstack/salt
Feb 2013 - Jul 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 2806 commits, 857 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Colton primarily worked on enhancing the SaltStack fileserver functionality. They implemented features related to default gateway detection and added Azure and S3 file server improvements, including hash cache invalidation for Azure, and timeouts and proper ordering to S3 queries. The user also addressed minor issues like fixing broken links and linting code.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
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