Peter Pišljar
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Slovenia
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Top SchoolPeter Pišljar is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building backend systems, web interfaces, and scalable features at companies like Elastic and on prominent open-source projects such as Kibana. He combines deep web development roots (PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS) with recent focus on Big Data and machine learning, enabling him to bridge frontend UX work and complex server-side logic. At Elastic he has driven server-side improvements and internal API changes, while his contributions to embedded IoT projects show a practical full‑stack mindset from device JSON endpoints to authentication and UI tweaks. Known for rapid learning and adaptability, he brings a hands-on, pragmatic approach to architecting reliable systems and improving developer-facing tooling. Based in Slovenia, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a history of shipping production software across industries, from aviation e-commerce to observability platforms.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
high school graduate, high school graduate at Gimnazija Jurija Vege IdrijaMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Ljubljana
Slovenian, German, English, Croatian, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (32)
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c-language10
back-end-development10
typescript10
api10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
web-development10
backend10
cprogramming-language10
javascript9
esp82669
apidoc9
http9
persistence9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Jul 2016 - Dec 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:988 reviews, 956 commits, 1951 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Peter's commits focus on developing and maintaining server-side logic within the Kibana project, as demonstrated by the addition of new features related to persistable state documents, improvements to filter types, and the creation of SQL-based expression functions. They contributed to the implementation of examples using embeddable examples with TypeScript, showing a solid understanding of backend systems and related tooling. Their contributions also involve changes to internal APIs and data structures to improve the overall functionality of the Kibana project.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
letscontrolit/ESPEasy
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Easy MultiSensor device based on ESP8266/ESP32
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 16 PRs, 21 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the web interface and JSON endpoints of the ESPeasy project. They implemented several new JSON endpoints for features like pin state, I2C scanner, WiFi scanner, file list, system information, and factory reset. Additionally, they improved the user interface by adding support for gziped files and a new download UI button, as well as implementing digest authentication. They also addressed a bug in the serving of index.htm.
esp8266iotesp32
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