Elena Shostak
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolElena Shostak is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with a strong front-to-back web engineering background and about two years in senior roles across fast-moving product companies. She has shipped features and systems at scale for teams at Miro and currently Elastic, and brings hands-on expertise in React, Redux/MobX, Node.js, and cloud/infra tools from prior roles at Yandex and Shell Recharge. Her career grew from frontend roots through project leadership on complex airline reservation integrations to full-stack development, giving her a rare blend of UI polish and backend reliability. Elena’s mentorship experience at Practicum by Yandex highlights a commitment to coaching engineers alongside delivering product. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, she excels at translating complex domain requirements into maintainable code. Colleagues would note her practical curiosity—she moves quickly from experimenting with architecture choices to shipping production-ready features.
2 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics at Taurida 'V. I. Vernadskiy' National University, Simferopol
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German
Github Skills (15)
restful10
search-engine10
elasticsearch10
opensearch10
elastic10
observability10
visualizations10
kibana10
java10
facilities3
encryption2
cryptography2
nodejs2
decryption2
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
elena-shostak/kibana
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:9 PRs, 661 pushes, 187 branches in 1 year
elastic/d3-color
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
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