Luke Elmers
Tech Lead, Principal Software Engineer II at Elastic
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Elmers is a seasoned tech lead and principal software engineer with over 15 years of experience building and shipping large-scale interactive web applications across agency, startup, and enterprise environments. Currently leading the Application Experience organization at Elastic, he focuses on architecting resilient platform services for Kibana, Cloud UI, and AutoOps while guiding cross-functional teams. His hands-on background spans full-stack development, platform engineering, and DevOps with technologies from TypeScript/React to Go, Python, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. A long-time contributor to the high-profile elastic/kibana repo, he’s driven improvements to core logging, deprecation workflows, and ECS upgrades to keep large deployments stable and upgradeable. He pairs client-facing product experience from his agency days with deep infrastructure pragmatism, having previously led platform engineering for a global airspace intelligence product. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he combines pragmatic leadership with a habit of solving thorny production and upgrade-path problems that are easy to overlook.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Summa Cum Laude Integrated Marketing Communications Theatre (minor), B.S. Summa Cum Laude Integrated Marketing Communications Theatre (minor) at Ithaca College
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Github Skills (15)
configuration-management10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
javascript10
logging10
aws-elasticsearch10
kibana10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
plugin-development9
observability5
dashboard4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:999 reviews, 295 commits, 734 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Luke's commits primarily focus on modifying configuration deprecation warnings and upgrading the logging system within the Kibana project. They implemented changes to log deprecation warnings for plugins that won't be disable-able in future versions, ensuring a smooth upgrade path. Further contributions involved upgrading the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) logging to the latest version, and removing deprecated settings. This indicates a focus on core application infrastructure and ensuring the system's stability and maintainability.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
lukeelmers/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 9 years
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