Pierre Gayvallet
Principal SDE - AppEx AI-Infrastructure at Elastic
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPierre Gayvallet is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently leading AppEx AI-Infrastructure at Elastic after several senior roles building and evolving the Kibana platform. Based in Lausanne, he blends front-end craftsmanship from early career roles with deep systems and architecture experience gained at Docker and Elastic, shipping scalable observability and developer-facing tooling. Known for bridging product-facing UI work and backend infrastructure, he has repeatedly moved between hands-on implementation and platform leadership to accelerate team impact. His background in MSc software engineering and long tenure at Elastic give him an uncommon combination of product empathy and infrastructure rigor, with a knack for translating complex data/UX needs into reliable platform features.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at ESIEE PARIS
French, English
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Github Skills (159)
opensearch10
toolbox10
heartbeat10
kitematic10
integrations10
docker-desktop10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
javascript10
client-library10
packetbeat10
logstash10
rest10
search-engine10
observability10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pgayvallet/kibana
Oct 2019 - Apr 2025
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Contributions:3 PRs, 4367 pushes, 1000 branches in 5 years 6 months
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pgayvallet/elastic-transport-js
Jun 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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