Mathieu Martin
Software Engineer at Elastic
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMathieu Martin is a seasoned software engineer based in Montreal with 18 years of experience spanning backend development, DevOps, and security. He has contributed to high-profile open-source projects such as Elastic's Beats and ECS, migrating modules to the Elastic Common Schema and improving code generators and templates. His work shows a strong focus on observability, schema-driven design, and practical interoperability (IPv6 support, event durations, reusable YAML objects). Mathieu also brings deep test and configuration expertise from contributions to Shoulda and AssetSync, emphasizing maintainability and flexible deployment. Equally comfortable refactoring legacy code and building tooling, he blends hands-on engineering with an operator’s mindset. Colleagues can expect pragmatic, infrastructure-aware solutions that prioritize correctness and long-term maintainability.
18 years of coding experience
Github Skills (35)
unit-testing10
ruby-rails10
python10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
rspec10
configuration-management10
rails10
schema-design10
filebeat10
ruby10
data-mapping10
elasticsearchquery10
log-parser10
go10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/ecs
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
Elastic Common Schema
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 344 reviews, 331 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu primarily contributed to the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) project by modifying Python and Go scripts used for generating and managing the schema. Their work included fixing glob patterns in Go templates, adding and removing columns in the schema, introducing a new file generator, and implementing various changes to improve code readability and maintainability. These contributions involved refactoring code, introducing new features like "reusable" objects in YAML representations, and ensuring the schema's structure and documentation were up-to-date.
elasticelastic-common-schemacommon-schemaelasticsearch
elastic/beats
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 73 commits, 142 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Mathieu's commits focused on migrating existing Filebeat modules (Filebeat, IIS, Nginx, etc.) to align with the Elastic Common Schema (ECS). This involved re-writing existing components to convert existing fields to their ECS-compliant counterparts, conversion of data types, as well as the addition of new fields to adhere to ECS standards. Furthermore, the user was responsible for populating event durations and the addition of code to support IPv6 zone information for IIS logs, in line with ECS.
tropicalheartbeatlogstashbeatsfilebeat
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