Maxim Palenov
Principal Full Stack Engineer I at Elastic
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMaxim Palenov is a Principal Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of experience blending rigorous academic training—a PhD in system analysis, control and information processing—with hands-on product engineering across startups and enterprise teams. Based in Amsterdam, he currently shapes Elastic's Security solution in Kibana, contributing both front-end UX improvements and back-end API work to a widely used open-source observability platform. Skilled at planning and delivering complex, agile projects, he has led engineering efforts from fintech to digital experience platforms and is comfortable switching between team leadership and deep individual contributor work. Known for strong debugging and troubleshooting instincts, he pursues ideas that create meaningful product shifts rather than incremental features.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. 05.13.01 - System analysis control and information processing, Ph.D. 05.13.01 - System analysis control and information processing at V. A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of SciencesNational University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys)
Русский, Английский
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
typescript10
kibana10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
openapi10
react10
api-design9
restful-api9
zod9
api-rest9
jestjs9
rest-api9
security8
jasmine6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (focused on Security Solution)
Full-stack Developer (focused on Security Solution)Contributions:1066 reviews, 20 commits, 415 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Elastic Security solution within the Kibana project. Their work involved implementing UI improvements, such as aligning UI elements and implementing new functionality to handle rule creation, upgrade, and management, suggesting a focus on front-end development. They also worked on back-end components, like setting up the API endpoints. They also contributed to testing and error handling, indicating involvement in the quality of the solution.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
maximpn/kibana
Sep 2022 - Apr 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:1 PR, 1351 pushes, 386 branches in 2 years 7 months
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