Tim Schnell
Director Of Engineering, Kibana at Elastic
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolTim Schnell is a product-focused engineering leader with over a decade of experience scaling teams and shipping high-velocity software, currently directing the Kibana engineering organization at Elastic from Austin. He has a strong track record growing engineering orgs (from early-stage teams to 35+ engineers), improving reliability from near-zero to industry standards, and increasing release cadence through CI/CD and SRE practices. As an early leader at Cratejoy he helped scale the product to $10M ARR while maintaining low turnover, and he co-founded a children’s subscription business acquired in 2023, demonstrating both technical and entrepreneurial chops. Tim pairs hands-on architecture and delivery expertise—from Python/Django systems to front-end telemetry—with a focus on cross-functional alignment and measurable outcomes. An often-unspoken strength is his background in psychology, which informs his people-first approach to hiring, retention, and building engineering culture.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Psychology, Bachelor's degree Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (22)
observability10
css10
css-in-js10
eui10
sass10
kibana10
ui-framework10
elasticsearch10
elastic-ui10
elastic10
visualizations10
react10
java9
histogram9
integrations8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
timductive/kibana
Aug 2019 - Oct 2024
:bar_chart: Kibana analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch
Contributions:6 PRs, 78 pushes, 36 branches in 5 years 2 months
analyticschartbar-chartkibanaopensearch
timductive/pi-flip
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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