David Leatherman
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Leatherman is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient, scalable infrastructure and developer-facing platforms, currently shaping telemetry ETL and analytics at Elastic. He blends backend systems expertise (Clojure, Go, Python, Elasticsearch, Postgres) with front-end and usability sensibilities, and has repeatedly owned CI/cloud orchestration that spans AWS, GCP/GKE, and Kubernetes. David excels at translating customer requirements into reliable operational services—examples include a self-service ETL pipeline feeding Elasticsearch/BigQuery and an overhaul that eliminated CI pages about jobs waiting for compute. He has led cross-team initiatives to replace legacy systems, introduce robust queuing and monitoring, and drive Elasticsearch strategy across products. Based in Chelmsford, MA, he pairs hands-on coding (including tooling and glue code) with technical leadership and a curiosity for elegant, practical solutions—his GitHub bio simply says “geek,” which fits his pragmatic, systems-first approach.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Transylvania University
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Github Skills (82)
css-in-js10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
rest10
search-engine10
observability10
java10
elastic10
emacs-package10
kibana10
restful10
jenkins10
react10
elastic-ui9
melpa9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
leathekd/elasticsearch
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
leathekd/carica
Nov 2017 - Jul 2024
Carica is a flexible configuration library for Clojure.
Contributions:1 review, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 9 months
configuration-libraryclojurebabashkaflexible
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