Ishleen Kaur
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolIshleen Kaur is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with over a decade of systems and platform experience and four years focused on cloud-native observability and integrations. She builds production-grade telemetry and LLM observability solutions at Elastic, having integrated OpenTelemetry and authored the Elastic Inframetrics Processor to bridge Elastic data and OTEL. Proficient in Go, C/C++, Linux, containers and Kubernetes, she has a strong background in system-side optimization from Citrix and Cisco—where she shrank a Netscaler image from ~1GB to 30MB and led 32-to-64-bit migrations. An active backend contributor to the popular Elastic Beats project (notably metricbeat and GCP Vertex AI region/zone support), she combines deep low-level engineering with modern cloud observability. Academically distinguished with a master’s from IIIT-B and multiple academic honors, she’s known for pragmatic refactoring and squeezing performance out of constrained environments.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology at UIET Panjab UniversityMaster's Degree Database Managaement Software Engineering, Master's Degree Database Managaement Software Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreAISSCE (CBSE) Non-Medical, AISSCE (CBSE) Non-Medical at Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh
Github Skills (14)
vsphere10
metricbeat10
go10
gcp10
api9
apim9
data-structures8
data-structure8
elasticsearchquery4
elasticsearch4
elasticsearch-api4
aws-elasticsearch4
amazon-elasticsearch4
filebeat3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/beats
May 2022 - Sep 2022
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:221 reviews, 2 commits, 70 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ishleen primarily contributed to the `metricbeat` module within the `beats` repository, focusing on enhancing the vSphere virtual machine metricset. Their work involved adding new metrics, refining existing ones, incorporating snapshot support, and updating the data structures used. They also refactored the code to utilize `mapstr` for data representation. Additionally, they added region/zone support for the Vertex AI service in the GCP module.
tropicalheartbeatlogstashbeatsfilebeat
ishleenk17/ish_integrations
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
Elastic Integrations
Contributions:6 PRs, 273 pushes, 118 branches in 2 years 11 months
elasticintegrationselasticsearch
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