Rudolf Meijering
Principle Software Engineer II at Elastic
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
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Top SchoolRudolf Meijering is a Principal Software Engineer II at Elastic with 13 years of experience building resilient back-end systems and leading engineering teams. He has a strong track record in product-focused engineering leadership—scaling teams, hiring talent, and instilling processes that deliver regular valuable increments from his VP Engineering and CTO roles. At Elastic he contributes to Kibana, improving migration stability and performance by optimizing batch sizing, integration tests, and documentation for a widely used observability platform. Comfortable across systems from kernel and signal-processing work to cloud services, he combines deep implementation skills with pragmatic product sense. Based in Bergen, Norway, he pairs hands-on contributions to open-source at scale with a knack for creating environments where engineers do their best work.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Electronic engineering computer science, BEng Electronic engineering computer science at Stellenbosch University
English, Afrikaans, Dutch, Norwegian
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Github Skills (23)
back-end-development10
amazon-elasticsearch10
typescript10
kibana10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
typescript-types10
elasticsearch10
typescripts10
elasticsearch-api10
onclick9
testing9
listview9
nodejs9
recursion6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:972 reviews, 312 commits, 719 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rudolf's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the Kibana's migration process. They focused on implementing features to limit batch sizes for migrations, adjusting batch size calculation, and addressing issues related to data indexing. The work also included integration testing, fixing various test failures, and adding documentation for the `migrations.maxBatchSizeBytes` configuration option. The user appears to be involved in improving the stability and performance of the data migration functionality.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
rudolf/kibana
Feb 2019 - Feb 2025
:bar_chart: Kibana analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch
Contributions:2 PRs, 883 pushes, 630 branches in 6 years 1 month
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