Davis Plumlee
Software Development Engineer II at Elastic
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavis Plumlee is a Software Development Engineer II with six years of experience building web-focused systems, currently contributing to Elastic's Kibana Security Solution from Washington, D.C. He blends back-end engineering with front-end sensibilities—improving rule management algorithms, handling edge cases in imports, and adding UI features for editing and exporting prebuilt rules. Davis has a strong full-stack foundation from internships and startup work, spanning .NET, React, Redux, TypeScript, and mobile mapping integrations. Comfortable in Agile teams, he pairs practical product-minded coding with attention to security and licensing constraints. His open-source contributions to a high-profile Elastic project demonstrate both production-grade discipline and a taste for solving nuanced algorithmic and UX problems.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Boise State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Boise CodeWorks Full Stack Development CourseStudy Abroad, Study Abroad at Richmond, The American International University, Rome CampusEntrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford D. School BreakerBOIAerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at Idaho Space and Aerospace ScholarsHigh School, High School at Boise High School
English, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
typescript-types9
testing9
apidoc9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
api9
kibana8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:426 reviews, 127 commits, 415 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Davis contributed to the Security Solution project, focusing on improvements to the rule management and upgrade workflows. Their commits included significant modifications to the rule diff algorithm, ensuring accurate comparisons and handling edge cases. They also worked on enhancing the UI, allowing users to edit and export prebuilt rules. Further contributions included adding code for license-level checks for rule editing, and addressing a bug where the `rule_source` field was not being correctly handled during rule import.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
dplumlee/kibana
Nov 2019 - Apr 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:2 PRs, 960 pushes, 417 branches in 5 years 5 months
elasticwindowelastic-stackelasticsearch
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