Kevin Lacabane
Software Engineer at Elastic
Brive-la-Gaillarde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKevin Lacabane is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, well-tested applications across frontend and backend stacks, currently contributing to Elastic. He works fluently in JavaScript, C# and Go and has modernized large-scale UIs—most notably migrating Kibana’s overview page to React and improving monitoring UX for the Elastic Stack. On the backend he has improved monitoring templates and integrations for Elasticsearch and Metricbeat, aligning them with ECS standards and operational needs. His background spans cloud and web platforms at AWS and Amazon, plus enterprise and aerospace projects, giving him a strong blend of production-scale engineering and domain-driven design. Based in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, he enjoys exploring new technologies through side projects, often turning experimentation into practical improvements in observability and monitoring.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Software and Media Applications, Associate's degree, Computer Software and Media Applications at BahuetMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at SUPINFO International University
French, English
Github Skills (30)
monitoring10
metricbeat10
ui-components10
amazon-elasticsearch10
typescript10
kibana10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
elasticsearch10
typescripts10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:562 reviews, 55 commits, 273 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily revolve around migrating the Kibana overview page to React, creating a new React Kibana template, and implementing UI improvements. This involves creating and integrating React components, updating routes, and incorporating new UI elements. The user is also involved in enhancing the user experience by adding features like breadcrumbs. The focus is on modernizing the UI and building the components for monitoring with React.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/beats
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 15 commits, 64 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Metricbeat project, focusing on the Elasticsearch and Kibana modules. Their work involved modifying existing code, including index name version updates and the integration of `elasticsearch.cluster.id` across different modules like `logstash` and `beat`. The user also implemented changes to adapt to specific Kibana module requirements, and addressed license-related issues by targeting the correct properties.
tropicalheartbeatlogstashbeatsfilebeat
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.