Michelle Bennett
Lead Software Engineer at Elastic
Fairhope, Alabama, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichelle Bennett is a Lead Software Engineer with 15 years of software design and architecture experience and a proven record of delivering results across Fortune 1000 firms and startups. She combines hands-on technical leadership with financial acumen—holding CPA knowledge—and deep expertise in security, payment processing, databases, and performance optimization. A pragmatic manager with six years of people leadership, she leads by example during crises and thrives on process improvement and cross-functional collaboration. Technically fluent in C++, C#, Delphi, T-SQL, Oracle and MS SQL Server, she designs resilient APIs, PaaS/SaaS integrations, and optimized database schemas. Michelle is especially strong at bridging technical and business needs—working as a customer-facing technical sales liaison and auditor—and she enjoys mentoring others while continuously learning new technologies. Based in Fairhope, Alabama, she quietly blends security-first engineering with financial systems experience to solve high-stakes, compliance-sensitive problems.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
elasticsearch10
observability10
elastic10
logstash10
visualizations10
kibana10
filebeat9
metricbeat9
packetbeat9
heartbeat9
elastic-common-schema8
common-schema8
monitoring4
codec3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/endpoint
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 issue in 3 months
elastic/kibana
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
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Contributions:1 review, 2 comments, 1 issue in 10 months
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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