Shaunak Kashyap
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolShaunak Kashyap is a Principal Software Engineer and seasoned engineering manager with 17 years of experience building distributed systems and developer-facing tooling, currently shaping Elastic Agent and metering infrastructure at Elastic from San Jose. He blends deep back-end expertise with front-end and DevOps chops—contributing to notable open-source projects like OpenTelemetry, Elastic UI, Logstash, and PHP/Node cloud SDKs—demonstrating a rare full-stack comfort across languages and layers. He has led and scaled engineering teams across time zones, driven CI/CD and automation improvements, and helped developers with packaging and observability tooling used in production. A pragmatic problem solver, he’s shipped telemetry exporters, Metricbeat/Beats features, and billing metering plumbing while also improving accessibility and UX in UI components. Beyond code, he’s advised on satellite ground systems and served in cross-functional leadership and developer relations roles, showing a pattern of technical breadth and stakeholder-facing impact. Colleagues rely on him for clear priorities, practical tradeoffs, and steady delivery in complex, distributed environments.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Ohio Wesleyan University
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Github Skills (59)
unit-testing10
github-ci10
javascript10
apidoc10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
css10
eui10
user-interface10
cicd10
java10
phpunit10
twitter-api10
javas10
automation10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rackspace/php-opencloud
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
The PHP SDK for OpenStack clouds
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 727 commits, 54 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Shaunak's commits primarily involved improvements to the PHP SDK for OpenStack clouds. The contributions focused on refining the codebase by removing redundant declarations, improving code clarity, and incorporating minor PHP documentation fixes. They also contributed to aligning the codebase with the standard PHP coding style (PSR-2) and included tests.
openstackphp
elastic/examples
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
Home for Elasticsearch examples available to everyone. It's a great way to get started.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shaunak primarily contributed to the development of a recipe search application. They added seed data and a script to load it, implemented the main search functionality and an "add recipe" page using PHP. Further development involved modifying the Bootstrap theme, adding jQuery, and enhancing the application with advanced search capabilities, including search across ingredients and directions.
elasticsearch
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