Kerry Gallagher
Principal Software Engineer I at Elastic
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKerry Gallagher is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building observability and monitoring UIs, currently leading work on the Logs UI in Kibana at Elastic. Comfortable in startups, agencies, and large product teams, Kerry brings full-stack JavaScript expertise—React, Node.js, TypeScript—and a strong front-end testing focus demonstrated by contributions to Elastic’s flagship kibana repo. They’ve progressed through multiple engineering levels at Elastic, shipping features across Logs, Metrics, and Stack Monitoring, and previously built monitoring products at Server Density/StackPath. A published speaker and workshop leader, Kerry pairs hands-on implementation with mentorship and product-minded engineering. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, they combine pragmatic UI craftsmanship with an appetite for building developer-friendly observability tools.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Multimedia and Digital Entertainment Computing, BSc (Hons), Multimedia and Digital Entertainment Computing at Northumbria University
Github Skills (10)
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user-interface10
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react10
typescript-types10
human-interface10
testing9
kibana9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:503 reviews, 283 commits, 537 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kerry primarily focused on developing and testing front-end components for the Kibana interface, specifically within the Observability alerts application. Their commits added and enhanced functional tests for the observability alerts page, covering aspects such as rendering, filtering, and date selection. They also worked on creating cell actions such as copy to clipboard and filter by value functions within the alerts interface, and made changes to the overall application settings to manage specific flags and navigation for the new feature.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
Kerry350/ember-deploy-s3-index
Feb 2015 - Dec 2015
S3 index adapter for ember-deploy
Contributions:1 release, 63 commits, 17 PRs in 10 months
emberadapterindex
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