Jack Conradson
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic.co
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Conradson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 11 years of professional experience building robust backend systems. He has been contributing to Elastic.co since 2015, focusing on improving stability and query execution in the widely used open-source Elasticsearch project. Earlier roles at A9.com and Sportvision gave him deep experience in search and real-time systems, informing pragmatic fixes around scripting, expression evaluation, and field access fallbacks. Jack combines production-grade engineering with an attention to subtle correctness issues that improve developer and runtime reliability across large distributed systems. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is known for quietly fixing tricky bugs that have outsized impact on search behavior.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (14)
javas10
elasticsearch10
debug10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
scripting10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
lucene9
algorithms6
algorithm6
data-structures6
data-structure6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Apr 2015 - Dec 2022
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:909 reviews, 732 commits, 907 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to bug fixes within the Elasticsearch codebase, specifically related to scripting and query execution. They addressed issues impacting functions and compound assignments within the expression language. Further contributions involved the creation of source fallback capabilities for various field types, ensuring more consistent behavior across different access methods within the scripting fields API. These fixes and enhancements improve code stability and functionality.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
jdconrad/lucene-solr
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
Mirror of Apache Lucene + Solr
Contributions:20 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 3 months
solrapachelucenejavaapache-lucene
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