Stephen Dodson
Independent Advisor at Elastic
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolStephen Dodson is an experienced technology leader and engineer with a 25+ year career spanning founding CTO roles and senior technical leadership, most recently as a Distinguished Engineer at Elastic. He blends deep academic training (PhD in Computational Methods, Imperial College) with hands-on product and architecture experience from startups to enterprise, including founding Prelert and early technical leadership at Njini. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, he has published prototype Python tooling for DataFrame-style analytics in Elasticsearch (eland), showing a knack for bridging data science workflows and scalable search infrastructure. Now based in Amsterdam and working as an independent advisor, he’s focused on mentoring, strategic technical guidance, and exploring new interests while giving back to the community.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computational Methods, PhD, Computational Methods at Imperial College LondonEngineering, Engineering at Centrale Lyon
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Github Skills (11)
data-analysis10
pandas10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
python10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
dataframe9
jupyter-notebook9
dataframes9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/eland
Jun 2019 - Mar 2021
Python Client and Toolkit for DataFrames, Big Data, Machine Learning and ETL in Elasticsearch
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 170 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Stephen's first commit introduces the initial prototype code, specifically an experimental prototype for DataFrame functionality in Elasticsearch. The code uses Python for data analysis and interaction with Elasticsearch, with the file `test.ipynb` demonstrating the use of the `eland` library to interact with the `kibana_sample_data_flights` index. Further commits refactored the code.
data-analysisdataframespythondata-sciencedataframe
stevedodson/examples
Jul 2019 - Nov 2021
Home for Elasticsearch examples available to everyone. It's a great way to get started.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
get-startedelasticgreatelasticsearchelasticsearch-client
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