Eric Beahan
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Elastic Agent
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Beahan is a senior engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning security, infrastructure, and agent/endpoint engineering, currently leading Elastic Agent efforts at Elastic. He has progressed from SOC roles into principal engineering and DevOps positions before moving into management, bringing pragmatic security instincts to large-scale product delivery. At Elastic he led Security Integrations and contributed to the Elastic Common Schema (ecs) repo, improving documentation generation and schema coverage—an indicator of his attention to maintainability and developer experience. Based in the Kansas City metro area, he combines systems-level thinking with product-focused execution, coaching teams to ship secure, reliable agents. Known for refactoring and tooling improvements that reduce cognitive load for future contributors, he balances technical depth with people leadership.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasAssociate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Information Technology, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Information Technology at Johnson County Community College
Github Skills (11)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
document-generation10
aws-elasticsearch10
documents10
documentation10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
jinja29
data-modeling9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/ecs
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Elastic Common Schema
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:8 releases, 699 reviews, 482 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on refactoring the asciidoc documentation generation process by integrating Jinja2 templates, enhancing the maintainability and flexibility of the documentation. They also contributed to adding new fields, such as `event.reason`, `related.hosts`, and new domain name breakdown fields across multiple code sections. Furthermore, the user updated the go code generator with new data types and improved documentation generation, including the addition of usage documentation for categorization fields.
elasticelastic-common-schemacommon-schemaelasticsearch
ebeahan/ecs
May 2020 - Jun 2024
Elastic Common Schema
Contributions:6 PRs, 1070 pushes, 931 branches in 4 years 2 months
elasticelastic-common-schemacommon-schemaelasticsearch
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