Davide Girardi
Principal Software Engineer I at Elastic
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavide Girardi is a Principal Software Engineer based in Dublin with a decade of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across observability and cloud infrastructure. Currently at Elastic, he blends SRE-minded engineering with product focus to deliver dependable services that scale and meet real user needs. His Amazon tenure included leading internal services for billing anomaly detection, log scrubbing that saved hundreds of petabytes, and automation to release database engines across regions—demonstrating a knack for high-impact systems work. Known as a "Swiss army knife," he moves fluidly between backend, DevOps, and data-processing domains while mentoring junior engineers and shaping team practices. He pairs a strong academic systems background from the University of Trento with hands-on experience shipping tools that quietly keep large platforms running.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering at University of PaduaMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science - Systems and Networks, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science - Systems and Networks at Università degli Studi di Trento / University of Trento
Italian, English
Github Skills (51)
metricbeat10
heartbeat10
storage10
integrations10
kibana10
filebeat10
packetbeat10
logstash10
elasticsearch10
logging10
elastic10
visualizations10
profiler10
ebpf9
observability9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
girodav/beats
Jun 2022 - Aug 2023
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Contributions:52 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 1 month
tropicallogstashbeatsfishelasticsearch
elastic/assetbeat
Jul 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:36 reviews, 72 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 months
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