Kenneth Kreindler
Software Engineer at Elastic
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Kreindler is a full-stack software engineer based in London with seven years’ experience building secure, production-grade systems using Java, Typescript, Node.js, Spring, React, Kafka and Postgres. He has driven fraud prevention and product security initiatives at Wise—authoring APP scam detection, device fingerprinting, ATO defenses and a reimbursement scheme—and now contributes to Elastic’s UX and security features. Comfortable across backend services, analytics pipelines and front-end UX, he blends low-level data engineering (OSINT and crawler tooling) with polished UI work, exemplified by his Kibana contributions improving the security AI assistant’s accessibility and maintainability. Known for shipping pragmatic, observable systems (Grafana/ELK stacks, Kafka-based architectures), he’s equally at home refactoring complex parsers as designing authentication flows. Curious and multidisciplinary, he pairs a Computer Science with Management degree from King’s College London with hands-on experience in cyber threat intelligence and payment security.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-IB-Summer Course, Pre-IB-Summer Course at University of OxfordMid-IB-Summer-Course, Mid-IB-Summer-Course at University of CambridgeInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at International School of Zug and LuzernBSc Computer Science with Management, BSc Computer Science with Management at King's College London
English, German
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
kibana10
security9
front-end-development9
ui-design9
uid9
dashboard8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:109 reviews, 102 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily contributed to the security AI assistant feature within Kibana. They implemented visual enhancements to the UI, specifically focusing on updating the animated border color of the security AI assistant icon and moving the AI assistant button to the global navigation bar for improved accessibility. Moreover, the user addressed code quality and maintainability concerns, refactoring and cleaning up code related to content references, and resolved a bug in the content reference markdown parser. These contributions showcase their expertise in both UI development and overall code structure.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
KDKHD/kibana
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:254 pushes, 44 branches in 3 months
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