Lukas Olson is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building web applications and search features, currently contributing to Kibana at Elastic from Gilbert, Arizona. He specializes in JavaScript and TypeScript across React and Node.js, with deep back-end experience improving search functionality and saved query services in a high-profile open-source project. Lukas’s background spans full-stack work in enterprise and product teams (Adobe, Simplifile) and early-career Java and J2EE systems, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for both legacy and modern stacks. He combines rigorous testing and optimization with feature-driven UX improvements, and has a bioinformatics BS from Brigham Young University—an indication of analytical grounding beyond pure software engineering. Notably, his open-source contributions to Elastic’s Kibana demonstrate comfort operating at scale in widely used tooling that powers observability and search.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Bioinformatics, Bachelors Bioinformatics at Brigham Young University
Contributions:698 reviews, 1005 commits, 1086 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily contributed to the back-end development of the Kibana project, focusing on the search functionality. They implemented changes to the saved query service, modifying the way queries are resolved and updated tests to reflect those changes. They also updated the code base to improve the existing code and added new functionalities to the search. The user’s work included optimizations and added features.
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
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