Joseph Mcelroy
Principal Engineer I at Elastic
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Mcelroy is a Principal Engineer with 13 years’ experience building product- and UX-focused web applications across startups and large enterprises, now driving search and front-end excellence at Elastic. A founding engineer who has shipped greenfield React apps, production APIs, and automated QA tooling, he co-authored Searchkit—one of the largest React search frameworks on GitHub—and maintains TypeScript-first tooling like Xenon. He blends deep front-end skills (React, Redux/MobX, TypeScript) with search back-ends (Elasticsearch/SOLR) and extensive automated testing and CI experience. Comfortable moving between prototype and production, he’s repeatedly bridged design, product and engineering to deliver measurable UX improvements. Based in the UK, he brings entrepreneurial grit from multiple startups and a track record of influencing open-source search UX components used by broader communities.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of LiverpoolForest School
Github Skills (21)
localstorage10
javascript10
apidoc10
ui-components10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
typescript10
searching10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
backbonejs10
typescript-types10
elasticsearch10
typescripts10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
searchkit/searchkit
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
React + Vue Search UI for Elasticsearch & Opensearch. Compatible with Algolia's Instantsearch and Autocomplete components.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:70 releases, 96 reviews, 1175 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily worked on updating and refining the numeric refinement list component, making changes to the component's JavaScript and TypeScript files, including the core and UI components. They also addressed merge conflicts and fixed an issue related to the component's title. Furthermore, they made adjustments to the code to support features like show more/less functionality and handle the disabled state, ensuring the component's visual and functional behavior were correct. The user's commits show a strong focus on the React-based user interface components in the project, and they worked on different layers of the application.
instantsearchreactsearch-uijavascriptsearch-engine
elastic/search-ui
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Search UI. Libraries for the fast development of modern, engaging search experiences.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 189 reviews, 92 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily worked on enhancing the front-end components of the search UI, focusing on the React library. Their contributions include fixing React hooks for custom view components, updating peer dependencies to align with React 17, and refactoring the codebase for TypeScript integration. Additionally, the user implemented new features for Elasticsearch connector, adding facet value sort capabilities. The user also made improvements to the autocomplete feature.
elasticsearch-clientreactsearch-uijavascriptsearch-engine
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