Philipp Kahr
Principal Consulting Architect at Elastic
Graz, Styria, Austria
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Top SchoolPhilipp Kahr is a seasoned infrastructure automation leader with 10 years of experience, currently serving as Sr Manager and Practice Lead at Elastic. He specializes in observability and measurable operations across legacy, hybrid, and cloud-native environments, leveraging tools from Elastic, Ansible, SaltStack, Packer, Vagrant and WebDriverIO. Philipp has progressed through technical and architectural roles at Elastic and large enterprises, designing migration paths (including SIEM migrations), automation pipelines, and global Office 365/Azure deployments. He blends hands-on engineering with strategic architecture, having led architectural boards and introduced observability as a central design principle. Based in Graz, Austria, he pairs a formal background in Wirtschaftsinformatik with pragmatic system-building experience across IaaS/PaaS/SaaS landscapes. Notably, his focus on making “all the things measurable and visible” drives practical, auditable solutions that connect monitoring, automation, and delivery.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieurin (Dipl.Ing.) Wirtschaftsinformatik, Diplom-Ingenieurin (Dipl.Ing.) Wirtschaftsinformatik at FH CAMPUS 02
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (133)
opensearch10
python10
css-in-js10
heartbeat10
integrations10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
ansible-role10
streaming10
packetbeat10
logstash10
ansible10
jruby10
search-engine10
observability10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
philippkahr/integrations
Apr 2023 - Apr 2024
Elastic Integrations
Contributions:76 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year
philippkahr/beats
Mar 2021 - Apr 2024
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Contributions:16 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 1 month
tropicallogstashbeatsfishelasticsearch
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