Robert A
Principal Engineer at Prequel.dev
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert A is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience building scalable, secure web and distributed systems across startups and enterprises. He led Elastic Security as a tech lead and contributed performance and maintainability improvements to the high-profile open source Kibana project, focusing on security features and event/field retrieval optimizations. Robert blends front-end expertise from earlier roles (including UI architecture) with deep backend and security engineering, shipping systems that handle high-volume traffic and complex rule logic. Currently at Prequel.dev, he continues to drive architectural decisions and delivery while maintaining a hands-on coding focus. Notably, his background includes building GIS and high-throughput RabbitMQ/Celery architectures, reflecting a knack for pragmatic solutions across the full stack.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Eleanor Roosevelt High School
English
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
amazon-elasticsearch10
it-security10
security10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
performance-optimization10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
kibana9
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
apidoc8
api8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Sep 2019 - May 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:260 reviews, 168 commits, 448 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the security features of the Kibana project, focusing on performance enhancements within the Security Solution. Their work included optimizing functions related to browser field retrieval, enhancing the performance of aggregatable field retrieval, and improving the event fields browser. They also addressed performance issues in rule creation and implemented changes to the rule snoozing functionality. Additionally, they removed unused references within the Security Solution, showing a focus on code maintainability.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
oatkiller/kibana
Oct 2019 - Jun 2024
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:539 pushes, 660 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 9 months
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