Matt Culbreth
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Elastic
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Culbreth is a senior software engineering manager with 17 years of experience leading teams across startups and enterprise firms to build impactful, scalable systems. Currently at Elastic, he combines hands-on backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile open-source Elasticsearch project around health, snapshot, and observability features—with a track record of growing engineering organizations at Accenture, DataStax, and other fast-moving companies. He thrives on mission-driven, world-changing products and brings a broad technical palette spanning distributed systems, observability, and platform reliability. Based in Marietta, Georgia, he pairs strategic leadership with code-level influence, often improving internal APIs and monitoring to make systems more manageable and robust.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (25)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
rest-api10
elasticsearch-api10
apidoc9
api9
logging9
testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 53 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the Elasticsearch project by implementing features and making code adjustments related to the Health API and snapshot/repository management. The commits involved adding logging capabilities, correcting error messages, and updating APIs to be internal. The user also modified server-side code, potentially enhancing the system's monitoring, management, and stability. These changes indicate a focus on improving the observability and internal functionality of the Elasticsearch core.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
mattc58/freshbooks.py
Oct 2008 - Oct 2012
Contributions:14 commits in 4 years
apipythonfreshbookspython-interfacefreshbooks-api
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