Marco Ghiani
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Ghiani is a Principal Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 8 years of experience building performant, user-focused JavaScript applications using React and Node.js. At Elastic he drives core features across Observability, Streams, and Discover, owning designs from prototype to delivery and improving ingestion, simulation, and serverless tooling for large-scale analytics. A strong front-end contributor to the prominent elastic/kibana repo, he’s improved UX and component integration to enhance navigation and rendering under the Elastic UI framework. He pairs hands-on coding with mentoring—running bootcamps, onboarding new engineers, and teaching full‑stack JavaScript at Codeworks and the UN—so technical decisions are grounded in real-world developer needs. Known for clean code, performance tuning, and breaking complex initiatives into actionable work, he thrives on deep dives and continuously learning new technologies. Outside work he channels the same discipline into sports, travel, and music, bringing imagination and humour to team collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at Università di Pavia
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
eui10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
frontend10
front-end-development10
web-frontend10
react10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Your window into all of your data
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1590 reviews, 10 commits, 463 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on front-end UI enhancements within the Kibana project. Their work involved creating new components, such as the node detail page, and modifying existing ones, resolving issues related to navigation and rendering. The commits indicate a strong focus on improving the user experience by addressing page refresh issues and ensuring proper component functionality and integration. Key contributions include adding styling and functionalities to align with EUI theme and overall Kibana UX.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
tonyghiani/kibana
Nov 2022 - Jul 2026
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:5 reviews, 3 PRs, 2235 pushes in 3 years 8 months
elasticelasticstack
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