Philip Krauss
Director Of Engineering at Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB)
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Krauss is a Director of Engineering based in Innsbruck, Austria, with eight years of formal experience leading database and developer-experience teams at companies like Tiger Data (TimescaleDB), Xata, and Elastic. He blends hands-on backend engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source tooling such as the official Elasticsearch PHP client—with strategic leadership of query languages, language clients, and database teams. Philip has repeatedly moved between startup and scale-stage environments, driving API integrations, cloud auth flows, and best-practice connection patterns while also shaping team delivery and culture. His background spans product-facing engineering and deep technical contributions, and his work on Elastic’s PHP client highlights a knack for improving both developer ergonomics and code hygiene.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering at University of LiverpoolLycée technique des Arts et MétiersBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Universität Innsbruck
German, English, French, Luxembourgish
Github Skills (13)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
webclient10
php10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
clientside10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
cloud-computing9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch-php
Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
Official PHP client for Elasticsearch.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 61 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the development of the PHP client for Elasticsearch. Their work involved implementing features related to Elastic Cloud, specifically focusing on parsing cloud IDs and integrating API key authentication. They also introduced best-practice connection parameters and added sample code examples for indexing, getting, and deleting data. Furthermore, the user improved the code style by applying coding conventions.
phpphp-clientelasticsearch
xataio/xata-py
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Python SDK for xata.io
Contributions:38 releases, 15 reviews, 19 commits in 28 days
pythonxatasdksdk-pythonxata-io
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