Petr Klapka
Senior Software Engineering Team Lead at Elastic
Hudson, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolPetr Klapka is a seasoned software engineering leader with two decades of hands-on experience who now leads a Kibana team at Elastic, focusing on Search, Security, Observability and SIEM. He combines deep C++/Qt and web-stack experience with a track record of building tooling and processes that let small, distributed teams punch above their weight. A former F-16 avionics technician turned architect and manager, Petr brings a practical, systems-minded approach to complex automation, robotics, and real-time problems. He’s equally comfortable mentoring teams across continents or diving into code to implement algorithms and integrations. Outside work he’s a family man with a curious streak—an amateur starfighter pilot and dragon-friendly raconteur whose varied background informs pragmatic, durable engineering decisions.
5 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Applied Electronics, AS, Applied Electronics at Community College of the Air ForceBS, Management & Information Technology, BS, Management & Information Technology at Daniel Webster College
Czech, English
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Github Skills (9)
search-engine10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
observability10
visualizations10
kibana10
java10
opensearch9
restful9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
petrklapka/kibana
Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
elasticwindowelastic-stackelasticsearch
elastic/kibana
Apr 2021 - Apr 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:7 reviews, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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