Nik Everett
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNik Everett is a Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years building and optimizing large-scale search and benchmarking systems, currently contributing to Elastic as an Elasticsearch maintainer. He specializes in backend performance and telemetry—recently implementing batch field loading and stored-field preferences in Elasticsearch and adding disk-usage telemetry and visualization to the Rally benchmarking tool. Nik pairs code changes with documentation improvements (e.g., enhancing copy-as-curl behavior and docs formatting), showing a commitment to both developer experience and robust instrumentation. His background spans high-performance systems, from carrier-grade tools to web platforms at organizations like Nortel, Bandwidth.com, and Wikimedia, and he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach informed by an academic foundation in computer science and mathematics.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsComputer Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Japanese, Computer Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Japanese at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (32)
lucene10
code-optimization10
search-engine10
benchmark10
python10
amazon-elasticsearch10
benchmarking10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
performance-optimization10
optimisation10
data-retrieval10
seo-optimization10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/docs
Feb 2018 - Jan 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:19 reviews, 708 commits, 1265 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Nik primarily focused on improving the documentation and functionality of the "copy-as-curl" tool within the repository. They added support for new features such as handling quotes and alternative language options. The user also fixed issues related to code block delimiters and improved the formatting and appearance of the documentation.
elastic/elasticsearch
Jul 2013 - Dec 2022
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3925 reviews, 4142 commits, 4616 PRs in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nik focused on improving the performance of the search engine by optimizing the process of retrieving and loading values, specifically for fields stored as strings. They redesigned the approach for fetching data from doc values and stored fields by implementing a mechanism that allows for the batch loading of multiple fields in a single pass. Furthermore, the user added support for the "stored" field extract preference and improved the filtering capabilities by adding the ability to filter for different sets of values.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
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