Milton Hultgren
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Greater Bordeaux Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolMilton Hultgren is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building Observability features at Elastic from Greater Bordeaux. He blends front-end UX work in Kibana with back-end contributions to Metricbeat, showing rare full-stack fluency across UI polish and telemetry-focused data collection. Previously he led web and developer-tooling efforts for banks and consumer platforms, improving build pipelines, CI/CD, and design-system delivery while mentoring junior engineers. Comfortable in both JavaScript frameworks and backend services, he has a proven track record of reducing technical debt and shipping developer-friendly infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge user experience and observability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Swedish High School diploma with a System and Software development track., Computer Software Engineering, Swedish High School diploma with a System and Software development track., Computer Software Engineering at It-gymnasiet SkövdeBachelor's degree, Software Engineering & Management, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering & Management at Göteborgs universitet / University of GothenburgErasmus Exchange program, Computer Software Engineering, Erasmus Exchange program, Computer Software Engineering at Radboud University Nijmegen
English, Swedish, Spanish, Polish
Github Skills (27)
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amazon-elasticsearch10
eui10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
front-end-development10
aws-elasticsearch10
typescript-types10
elastic-ui10
elasticsearch10
typescripts10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:776 reviews, 42 commits, 237 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Milton primarily contributed to the UI aspects of the Kibana Observability features. They made changes to the Alerts page, including subtle callout adjustments, search bar placeholder updates, and the removal of default search queries. Additionally, they updated the display of alert statuses in both the alerts flyout and the alerts table, aligning their visual presentation. The commits show a focus on improving the user experience and visual consistency within the Observability application.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/beats
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 4 commits, 36 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Milton primarily contributed to the Elasticsearch Beats project, focusing on the Metricbeat module. Their work involved implementing new metrics and features for collecting and reporting Elasticsearch node statistics, particularly related to shard recovery and node roles. They also addressed several bug fixes and linting issues within the codebase. Further improvements included using flattened types for nodes and allowing closed indices.
tropicalheartbeatlogstashbeatsfilebeat
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