Nathan Reese
Principal Software Engineer Level 1 at Elastic
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Reese is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years in professional engineering and over a decade at Elastic, where he drives front-end architecture and UX improvements for high-profile open-source projects like Kibana and the Elastic UI Framework. He specializes in complex UI work—maps, time sliders, projections, and accessibility-minded components—bringing polish to large-scale developer-facing products. Prior experience at defense and aerospace firms honed his discipline for correctness and indexing edge cases, evidenced by fixes for FeatureCollection uploads and responsive behaviors. Based in Aurora, Colorado, he couples hands-on coding with system-level thinking, often refactoring core components to improve maintainability and developer ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Clemson University
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
mapbox-gl10
ui-components10
css10
eui10
typescript10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
geojson10
system10
uid10
front-end-development10
sys10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
Your window into all of your data
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2513 reviews, 2062 commits, 5406 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nathan focused on front-end development, specifically in the Maps section of Kibana. Their contributions involved refactoring and enhancing the time slider implementation in the Maps UI by integrating with the control group time slider. They also addressed and fixed an issue related to uploading FeatureCollections with single features, ensuring correct indexing results. Moreover, the user introduced new UI elements like "globe" projections and implemented styling for the map, improving the user experience.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/eui
May 2017 - Jun 2021
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 107 PRs, 55 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily worked on the Elastic UI (EUI) framework, focusing on component enhancements and bug fixes. They renamed properties in the button component and updated tests accordingly. Their contributions also involved refactoring UI elements, such as tooltips and combo boxes, to improve functionality, usability, and accessibility. Additionally, the user addressed layout and visual issues, including fixing a timepicker, ensuring responsive design, and applying styling updates.
elastic-uieuireactdesign-systemelasticsearch
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