Edward Savage
Sr Software Enginerr at Elastic
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarEdward Savage is a senior software engineer based in the Greater Cambridge area with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems. He currently works at Elastic, contributing to the widely used open-source Elasticsearch project where he has focused on improving the Machine Learning module by refactoring REST APIs and removing deprecated _xpack endpoints. Edward excels at making complex distributed systems more maintainable and API-consistent, with a practical eye for long-lived code hygiene. His background suggests strong Java expertise and experience navigating large-scale, production-grade repositories. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prefers subtle, impactful improvements over flashy rewrites.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
javas10
api-rest10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
rest-api10
aws-elasticsearch10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
ml9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 82 commits, 187 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily contributed to the Machine Learning (ML) module within the Elasticsearch repository. Their work involved removing deprecated endpoints, particularly those related to the `_xpack` functionality in the ML module. They also refactored various REST API endpoints, indicating a focus on improving the ML API's structure and maintainability. The user updated code across several Java files within the `x-pack/plugin/ml` directory.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
edsavage/ml-cpp
May 2018 - Mar 2025
Machine learning C++ code
Contributions:1135 pushes, 842 branches, 2 comments in 6 years 11 months
cppmachine-learninglearning-c
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