Søren Louv-jansen
Technical Lead at Elastic
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolSøren Louv-jansen is a product-driven software engineer and technical lead with 13 years of experience building observability and APM tooling at Elastic, currently leading the Observability AI Assistant team. He blends full-stack fluency—from TypeScript/React front-ends and Node.js back-ends to Elasticsearch integrations and RAG workflows with OpenAI/Anthropic/Google—while turning complex telemetry into actionable UI and platform features. His contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Kibana and Elastic UI span backend APM telemetry processing and frontend component work, reflecting both performance-focused engineering and UX sensibility. A former startup co-founder and early Opbeat engineer, he pairs pragmatic product instincts with production-hardened observability expertise and a taste for exploring fintech, blockchain, and generative AI trends.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc in Business Administration and Information Systems, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, BSc in Business Administration and Information Systems, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Copenhagen Business SchoolBSc in Global Business Informatics, Information Technology, BSc in Global Business Informatics, Information Technology at IT-Universitetet i KøbenhavnHigh School Diploma, Mathematics, Physics and Music, High School Diploma, Mathematics, Physics and Music at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium
English, Danish, German, javascript
Github Skills (35)
javascript10
facebook-api10
ui-components10
amazon-elasticsearch10
css-in-js10
eui10
typescript10
kibana10
apm10
elasticsearchquery10
front-end-development10
aws-elasticsearch10
typescript-types10
elasticsearch10
typescripts10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sorenlouv/fb-sleep-stats
Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
Use Facebook to track your friends’ sleeping habits
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 9 PRs, 100 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Søren primarily contributed to the front-end development of the application, focusing on React components and styling with Less. They implemented features for user authentication using Facebook and built a user interface to display sleep data. Additionally, the user made changes to the back-end service for user data retrieval. The user's work involved integrating with Facebook's API and displaying data in a Highcharts-based visualization.
reactsleepingcheeriofacebookhabits
elastic/kibana
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4357 reviews, 1190 commits, 2034 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Søren's contributions centered around the APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system in the Kibana repository, specifically focusing on improvements to the APM test clients and handling of performance metrics. The commits involved refactoring existing code, particularly by marking older API test clients as legacy and improving testing infrastructure for analyzing application performance data. The work also included significant work on indexing and processing of telemetry data.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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