Sean Story
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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RockstarSean Story is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in search ingestion and backend systems, based in Nashville. He contributes to high-profile open-source Elastic projects like connectors and Kibana, where he implemented ingest pipeline definitions, pipeline-aware connector logic, and CI linting improvements. Sean bridges engineering and DevOps concerns—refactoring service logic, integrating data processing pipelines, and hardening test and build pipelines to improve reliability and quality. He has hands-on experience extracting binary content and running ML inference within ingest pipelines, showing a practical focus on productionizing search and enterprise search features. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who quietly improves developer experience and long-term maintainability behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (37)
javascript10
data-pipelines10
python10
amazon-elasticsearch10
typescript10
kibana10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
pipe10
pipeline10
typescript-types10
elasticsearch10
typescripts10
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elasticsearch-api10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/connectors
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Official Elastic connectors for third-party data sources
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:917 reviews, 23 commits, 482 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sean contributed to the backend functionality of the Elastic connectors project, as evidenced by changes to the test runner and BYO connector implementations, suggesting interaction with service logic and configuration. They introduced pipeline awareness, refactoring code to integrate data processing pipelines within the connectors. Furthermore, the user updated testing configurations and added linting to the CI process, exhibiting an interest in improving the build pipeline and code quality.
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elastic/kibana
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 15 commits, 62 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sean's primary contribution focused on implementing and defining ingest pipeline definitions within the Kibana repository. They created and modified pipeline definitions, including those for enterprise search functionality. This involved writing code to extract binary content, reduce whitespace, and run machine learning inference, leveraging the Elasticsearch client. They also worked on creating and integrating a pipeline creation endpoint, demonstrating familiarity with the Kibana's server-side architecture.
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