Kaiyan White
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaiyan White is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, backend-focused systems, currently contributing to integrations at Elastic from Fort Collins, Colorado. He brings a strong foundation in distributed monitoring and cloud-native tooling from prior work on Monasca at HPE and a background in radar and signal analysis from research roles at Colorado State University and PNNL. At Elastic he has improved integrations and data pipeline robustness—adding AWS and MongoDB package support, enhancing import scripts, and updating data stream handling for new ALB log fields. Comfortable in both Python and backend systems engineering, he pairs rigorous academic training (MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.92 GPA) with practical open-source contributions that smooth real-world observability workflows.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.92, Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.92 at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Communication Engineering at Anhui Agricultural University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
go10
yaml10
aws9
configuration-management9
api8
mongodb-database8
apidoc8
mongodb8
dockers5
docker5
elasticsearchquery4
elasticsearch4
elasticsearch-api4
amazon-elasticsearch4
aws-elasticsearch4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/integrations
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:376 reviews, 116 commits, 322 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kaiyan primarily focused on enhancing integrations within the project, as evidenced by the modifications to the import-beats script to handle package fields. They made documentation changes, including adding inline code examples for dataset names within the README. Further contributions involved importing MongoDB packages and integrating AWS credentials by modifying data streams in the aws package and related configurations. Additionally, they updated dependencies and implemented support for new fields from V2 ALB logs.
elasticintegrationselasticsearch
kaiyan-sheng/integrations
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
Elastic Integrations
Contributions:298 pushes, 114 branches in 2 years 5 months
elasticintegrationselasticsearch
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