Keith Massey
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Massey is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, data-intensive systems and distributed search integrations. Currently at Elastic, he contributes to core Elasticsearch features and has a history of improving node stats and REST client behavior in high-profile open-source projects. Previously a Principal Software Engineer leading an on-premise conduct surveillance team, he architected systems that process millions of messages daily using Hadoop, Spark, Elasticsearch, and ML to detect compliance issues at major banks. His career blends deep back-end engineering with production-focused reliability work, including fixing subtle connection leaks and enhancing test coverage. Based in Nashville, he holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Mathematics, and brings both hands-on coding and team leadership experience to complex distributed systems. An understated strength is his knack for pragmatic instrumentation and diagnostics that make large systems observable and maintainable.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at Vanderbilt UniversityM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at The University of Alabama
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Github Skills (17)
api-rest10
restful-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
rest10
elasticsearch10
rest-api10
elasticsearch-api10
spark9
hadoop-mapreduce9
scala9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch-hadoop
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
:elephant: Elasticsearch real-time search and analytics natively integrated with Hadoop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 reviews, 87 commits, 220 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Keith primarily worked on improving the Elasticsearch-Hadoop integration, focusing on features and bug fixes related to REST client functionality. Their contributions include implementing case-insensitive header handling, adding support for the `date_nanos` field type, addressing connection leaks in the `ScrollQuery`, and fixing issues related to empty or null arrays. They also added support for wildcard fields, and addressed issues related to index creation.
analyticsintegratedelephantelasticsearchhadoop
elastic/elasticsearch
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1202 reviews, 227 commits, 1032 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Keith contributed to the Elasticsearch codebase, specifically focusing on enhancing the node stats API. Their work involved adding shard count information to the API's node stats, including the creation of a new class `ShardCountStats`. They also made modifications to the `CommonStats` class and related tests, including code for handling the number of shards. Additional contributions include fixing and improving test coverage.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
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