Luke Whiting
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Wealden, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarLuke Whiting is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building data-intensive, cloud-native systems and developer platforms. Currently on the Elasticsearch Data Management team at Elastic, he combines deep DevOps expertise (Kubernetes, Argo, EKS, Terraform) with backend skills in Java, Cassandra, Kafka and search to improve lifecycle management and real-time data workflows. Luke has led cross-company standardisation of CI/CD and delivery practices, driving efficiency through bespoke tooling and platform thinking rather than one-off fixes. He favours human-centric, sustainable engineering processes and has a track record of inventing frameworks that help teams move faster while reducing operational friction. Based in Wealden, England, he brings a practitioner’s perspective on the intersection of software and hardware and a penchant for turning complex, system-level problems into pragmatic, reusable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (73)
opensearch10
rancher10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
search-engine10
java10
docker10
restful10
container-management9
faunadb9
specification9
orchestration9
kibana9
nimble9
container9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lukewhiting/elasticsearch
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:286 pushes, 123 branches in 7 months
brandwatch/.github
Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
A special repo with templates and docs for the whole org
Contributions:10 reviews, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 11 months
emacstemplateorg-modespecial-repo
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