Júlia Bárdi is a Principal Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with a decade of hands-on experience across full-stack web development, backend Java and Node.js services, and observability stacks like Elasticsearch. She blends technical leadership—having served as interim Tech Lead and led initiatives to stabilize scale testing and enable serverless Fleet services—with a strong focus on product impact and collaboration. At Elastic she contributes to both Kibana UI and Elasticsearch security, working on Fleet UX improvements and tightening service account and index privileges in the popular elastic stack. Previously she built large enterprise Angular applications at Morgan Stanley, mentoring teams and driving test automation practices. Known for pairing pragmatic engineering with empathy, she favors projects that improve people’s lives and embraces cross-team collaboration to ship reliable, secure software.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
II. Rákóczi Ferenc Fővárosi Gyakorló Közgazdasági Középiskola
Contributions:2236 reviews, 209 commits, 1016 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Júlia's commits primarily focused on modifying and improving the user interface of the Kibana dashboard, particularly within the Fleet application. They addressed wording inconsistencies, applied cosmetic fixes to buttons and layouts, and improved the responsiveness of various UI elements. The user also updated the instructions for installing the Elastic Agent. Their work involved changes to React components and the use of EUI (Elastic UI) components.
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:34 reviews, 5 commits, 48 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Júlia primarily contributed to security-related aspects within the Elasticsearch project. They focused on implementing and modifying security roles and privileges for the Kibana system, fleet-server, and fleet-server-remote accounts, granting them the necessary access to indices like `logs-elastic_agent*`, `metrics-fleet_server*`, and `fleet-synced-integrations*`. The user also worked on secrets-related functionalities, including validation, authorization, and testing, and made changes to improve the security of the fleet system. Their work included modifying code and tests related to service accounts, index privileges, and access controls within the x-pack security and fleet plugins.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
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Júlia Bárdi - Principal Software Engineer at Elastic