Devon Thomson
Area Lead Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDevon Thomson is an Area Lead Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience blending fine art sensibilities and full-stack engineering to make business intelligence products more beautiful, usable, and maintainable. At Elastic he leads a small team refining a best-in-class reporting suite and contributes front-end improvements to high-profile open-source projects like Kibana, enhancing UI state management and navigation. Previously at RBC he architected and marketed an internal BI platform—building custom ETL, Elastic query APIs, and a self-serve Angular dashboard—while still shipping hands-on Java Spring Boot and Elasticsearch work. He brings a designer’s eye to complex technical problems, prioritizing clarity, consistency, and delightful UX in analytics tooling. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs formal art training (BFA) and top academic performance in IT with a track record of turning inherited codebases into cleaner, more engaging products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Honors With Distinction, High School Diploma, Honors With Distinction at Horton High SchoolBachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Interdisciplinary: Film & Illustration, 4.0 GPA, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Interdisciplinary: Film & Illustration, 4.0 GPA at Nova Scotia College of Art and DesignDiploma in Information Technology, Information Technology, 97% Average, Diploma in Information Technology, Information Technology, 97% Average at Nova Scotia Community College
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Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1632 reviews, 387 commits, 994 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Devon primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Kibana dashboard, focusing on enhancements for the user interface. The user implemented features such as reading the application state from the URL, and added a new design. Additional work includes adding a search to a legacy redirect URL, retaining view mode state in session storage. These improvements enhance user experience and state management within the dashboard application.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
ThomThomson/kibana
Feb 2020 - Mar 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:9 reviews, 18 PRs, 1655 pushes in 5 years 2 months
elasticwindowelastic-stackelasticsearch
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