Michael Olorunnisola
Software Engineering Manager at Elastic
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Olorunnisola is a software engineering manager with a decade of experience leading full-stack teams and shipping user-facing features at scale, currently driving engineering at Elastic. He blends deep JavaScript expertise (React, Redux, Angular, TypeScript) with backend familiarity (Node, GraphQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4j) to solve complex product and UX challenges. At Elastic he progressed from senior engineer to technical lead and principal before moving into management, contributing notable front-end work to the widely used Kibana platform including security views and a timeline component. He thrives on methodically breaking down novel problems, prefers autonomous, learning-oriented environments, and brings a rare mix of product-focused UI craftsmanship and system-level thinking. Based in Philadelphia, his background spans analytics, healthcare research, and community-facing projects, reflecting a strong curiosity that informs pragmatic engineering decisions. Outside of code, his early research and public-health work hint at an ability to translate technical solutions into measurable real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
HS Diploma, HS Diploma at Princeton Day SchoolBachelors Biology Music, Bachelors Biology Music at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish, Yoruba
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Github Skills (7)
typescript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2439 reviews, 178 commits, 624 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the user interface of the Kibana platform. Their work included updates to the alert details page and also the table rendering as it related to the user experience in the security solution views. The user was also involved in the implementation of a new component for the timeline view. The user worked in the frontend using React and TypeScript.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
Enter-36-chambers-of-wu-tang-fam/Ilera-health
Sep 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:70 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 8 months
reactfirebasehealthcarehealthcare-application
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