Gareth Ellis
Senior Performance Engineer at Elastic
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Ellis is a Senior Performance Engineer based in Sweden with a decade of experience optimizing large-scale systems. Currently at Elastic, he focuses on squeezing latency and throughput gains out of distributed software, combining hands-on profiling with pragmatic engineering trade-offs. His background includes postgraduate teacher training and a BA (Hons), reflecting an ability to explain complex performance issues clearly to teams and stakeholders. Gareth brings a practical, measurement-driven approach to performance tuning and often surfaces non-obvious bottlenecks through methodical benchmarking. Although not a prolific public GitHub contributor, his value shows in production-focused impact and knowledge transfer within engineering organizations.
10 years of coding experience
PGCE, PGCE at Staffordshire UniversityBA (Hons), BA (Hons) at University of Chester
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (80)
opensearch10
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windows10
elasticsearch10
javascript10
linux10
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rally10
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rocket10
java10
macos10
nodejs10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
andylovesfuzz/vidahostdnsupdater
Aug 2016 - Oct 2023
Updates DNS entries via the Vidahost 'Custom DNS Management' page.
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 2 months
dnsupdatescustom-dnsdns-managementdns-updates
gareth-ellis/home-assistant.github.io
Oct 2020 - Jul 2023
:blue_book: Jekyll project to generate home-assistant.io
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
jekyll-projectblueassistanthome-assistantjekyll
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