Shahzad Muhammad
Principal Software Engineer I at Elastic
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolShahzad Muhammad is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building full-stack web and observability solutions using TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Python/Django. At Elastic he has driven Synthetics/RUM features in Kibana, contributing front-end UX improvements and back-end reliability enhancements to well-known open-source projects like Beats and Kibana. He excels at bridging product and platform work—designing UI component libraries, migrating legacy enterprise systems to modern web stacks, and improving scheduler and maintenance window behavior in distributed agents. Comfortable across cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and CI/CD tooling, he combines hands-on coding with mentoring and team-leading experience from startups to large engineering organizations. A practical tinkerer, Shahzad’s earlier work includes robotics software for RoboCup and a habit of publishing demos and repos on GitHub that showcase both system-level and user-facing craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree(Interrupted), Computer Science, Master's degree(Interrupted), Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesFSC, Pre Engineering, A, FSC, Pre Engineering, A at F.G Sir Syed College The Mall Road RawalpindiBE, Computer System Engineering, BE, Computer System Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
English, Urdu, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
javascript10
amazon-elasticsearch10
heartbeat10
eui10
typescript10
user-interface10
scheduler10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
front-end-development10
aws-elasticsearch10
typescript-types10
elasticsearch10
elastic-ui10
typescripts10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2177 reviews, 945 commits, 2938 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Shahzad's contributions focused on implementing new features and enhancing the user interface within the Kibana platform. They added beta labeling to the Synthetics overview page, updated component styling, and addressed visual issues by fixing tooltips and adjusting card colors. These efforts highlight a focus on both front-end and back-end development, demonstrating the ability to integrate new features across multiple areas.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/beats
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 5 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Shahzad's commits focus on modifying and extending the functionality of the Heartbeat beat, a component of the Beats family. They have made contributions to the scheduler and maintenance window features. Their changes include adding run_once mode to the scheduler, incorporating a synthetics step status field, and addressing issues with enabled flags in data streams. These modifications demonstrate a focus on improving the core functionality and reliability of the Heartbeat component.
tropicalheartbeatlogstashbeatsfilebeat
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