Josh Mock
Principal Software Engineer - Developer Tools at Elastic
Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Mock is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in developer tools, with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems and open-source client libraries. At Elastic he maintains the official Elasticsearch Node.js and Python clients, improves CI/CD and testing infrastructure, and architects autoscaling data pipelines that process millions of events daily. He blends hands-on work across Node.js, Python, Rust, and Clojure with SRE practices—deploying Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and Google Cloud services—to boost reliability and engineering efficiency. A habitual dotfiles tinkerer and the primary maintainer of the Elasticsearch Node.js client, he pairs deep operational knowledge with thoughtful front-end and docs contributions. His background in front-end architecture and early career work in web publishing give him an uncommon empathy for developer UX and tooling polish.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
javascript10
text-editor10
testing10
bash10
editor10
color-scheme10
vim10
customisation10
ci-cd-pipeline10
syntax-highlighting10
devops10
react10
test-automation10
css9
preact9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch-js
Mar 2023 - Jul 2026
Official Elasticsearch client library for Node.js
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:39 releases, 482 reviews, 1201 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on improving the continuous integration and testing infrastructure of the project. Their contributions included updating CI/CD pipelines to test against missing branches and incorporating integration test fixes. They added flags to the integration tests to run a single suite or a single test and simplified the cleanup make target. Furthermore, they made updates to the test runner and test definitions.
elasticsearch-clientnodejselasticsearchrestjavascript
elastic/docs
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 16 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the front-end components of the documentation website. Their work focused on enhancing the user interface by adding tooltips and making related updates to the Alternative Picker component. They also wrote unit tests for the Alternative Picker. Furthermore, they made style changes and integrated new fonts to support internationalization and improve the overall appearance of the documentation.
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