Mike Côté
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Côté is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web platforms and developer-facing frameworks, currently driving the Kibana Alerting framework at Elastic. He blends back-end, DevOps and front-end work—shipping secure alerting features and UI improvements for a high-profile open-source project in the Elastic Stack. Previously a lead product developer, he has a track record of modernizing large platforms, improving developer velocity, and acting as a platform gatekeeper across distributed teams. A hands-on mentor and roadmap collaborator, he pairs pragmatic engineering (Node.js, JavaScript, Elasticsearch) with stakeholder-driven design. Notably, he was a founding engineer for a core observability/alerting system used by Elastic customers worldwide.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Technology, Information Technology, Computer Engineering Technology, Information Technology at Collège La Cité
English, French
Github Skills (27)
amazon-elasticsearch10
alertdialog10
typescript10
alertview10
alerts10
kibana10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
typescript-types10
elasticsearch10
typescripts10
elasticsearch-api10
javascript9
observability9
security9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1047 reviews, 522 commits, 1398 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on back-end development tasks, contributing to code changes that addressed security requirements for alerting functionality. They also made contributions to the UI, including the addition of the API key owner to the rule details view. The user implemented code modifications across multiple areas, covering functionality changes, updates to test cases and updates to documentation.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
mikecote/kibana
Nov 2018 - Mar 2025
:bar_chart: Kibana analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch
Contributions:8 PRs, 3244 pushes, 759 branches in 6 years 5 months
analyticschartbar-chartkibanaopensearch
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