Samuel Nelson
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSamuel Nelson is a Principal Software Engineer based in Tauranga, New Zealand, with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems using Scala, Java, and JavaScript. He has progressed through multiple engineering and senior roles at Elastic since 2018, driving architecture and delivery for large-scale search and observability platforms. Prior to Elastic he designed systems at Spring and Vnomics, bringing experience from embedded and telematics domains into cloud-native services. Known for blending hands-on coding with technical leadership, he focuses on pragmatic, scalable solutions and mentoring teams. A Rochester Institute of Technology software engineering graduate, he pairs strong academic foundations with a consistent record of accelerating product delivery in production environments.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Software Engineering, B.S. Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
api-client10
css-in-js10
elasticsearch10
rest-api10
visualizations10
api10
sdk10
rest10
search-engine10
observability10
exceptions10
cross-platform10
java10
build-server10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
s-nel/elasticsearch
Jun 2019 - Feb 2024
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
s-nel/zipmeta
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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