JD Kurma
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJD Kurma is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 8 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across the full stack using JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, and C. He has a strong track record delivering high-impact migrations and real-time platforms—leading a $1M cost-saving migration of 100+ microservices and architecting an event pipeline processing hundreds of millions of IoT messages daily. At Elastic he contributes to Kibana’s security and telemetry, bringing hands-on expertise in secure backend design and observability for widely used open-source tooling. JD combines rigorous computer science and mathematics training (BS, UIC, 3.7 GPA) with practical leadership as a tech lead and mentor, running bi-weekly knowledge transfers to upskill teams. He favors resilient distributed architectures (consistent hashing, fault-tolerant Kubernetes/EKS) and pragmatic data modeling for high-throughput systems. Peers rely on him to turn complex, cross-team requirements into reliable, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.7/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.7/4.0 at University of Illinois at Chicago
Github Skills (13)
security10
testing10
it-security10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
back-end-development10
telemetry10
kibana10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
dashboard4
python4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:62 reviews, 14 commits, 36 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:JD primarily contributed to the security solutions within the Kibana repository. Their work focused on implementing and testing security-related features, such as adding usage counters for endpoints and incorporating credential access filtering. They also worked on implementing and testing telemetry and filterlist components for security alerts, ensuring accurate data collection and processing. The user demonstrated their expertise by working across different components of the solution, and contributing to code changes.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
JDKurma/kibana
Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:140 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 7 months
elasticwindowelastic-stackelasticsearch
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