Elena Stoeva
Software Engineer II at Elastic
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolElena Stoeva is a Software Engineer II at Elastic with five years of experience building user-friendly, scalable front-end tooling for data platforms, notably contributing accessibility and UI improvements to the widely used Kibana project. With a Computer Science degree from Cornell and external specializations in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research, she blends rigorous algorithmic thinking with practical product-focused engineering. At Elastic she maintains core Stack Management and Dev Tools apps—Index Management, Index Lifecycle Management, Ingest Pipelines, and the Kibana Console—placing emphasis on reliability and accessibility. Her background includes automated QA, teaching algorithm courses, and hands-on experimental work at CERN, reflecting a mix of engineering discipline, pedagogy, and scientific curiosity. Outside work she channels creativity into dance, cooking experiments, and travel, which inform her collaborative and inventive approach to problem solving.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Cornell UniversityHigh School of Mathematics "Dr Petar Beron" - Varna
English, Bulgarian, German, French
Github Skills (17)
accessibility10
javascript10
eui10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
elastic-ui10
react10
user-interface9
interface-design9
data-streams8
data-stream8
amazon-elasticsearch7
aws-elasticsearch7
elasticsearchquery7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Accessibility Specialist
Front-end Developer & Accessibility SpecialistContributions:675 reviews, 5 commits, 413 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Elena's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the user interface and improving accessibility within the Kibana project. They fixed accessibility (a11y) issues across multiple components, including those related to snapshot policies, cross-cluster replication flyouts, and dev tool tabs. Furthermore, the user added support for intelligent tiering in Snapshot and Restore and introduced enhancements to the index template and data stream forms. They also ensured that the correct index mode is displayed based on the selected index patterns.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
ElenaStoeva/kibana
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:2 PRs, 1054 pushes, 346 branches in 2 years 2 months
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