Tim Sullivan
Software Engineer at Elastic
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Sullivan is a seasoned software engineer with over two decades of experience building full-stack web applications and a focused 11-year tenure in professional engineering roles. Currently at Elastic, he contributes to widely used open-source projects like Kibana and the Elastic UI, improving type safety, accessibility, and front-end components for large-scale telemetry and reporting features. He has strong Node.js and front-to-middle-tier expertise honed at PayPal, delivering mobile-first experiences and reusable component libraries for millions of users. Tim combines practical system-level skills—database design and server configuration—with a designer-friendly approach to prototyping and UI work. Known on GitHub as a pragmatic contributor, he balances shipping production-grade features with incremental improvements that reduce technical debt (e.g., removing any types and fixing React warnings). Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, he brings a steady mix of mentorship, hands-on coding, and long-term product perspective to engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Multimedia (College of Liberal Studies) major, Computer Science (College of Engineering) minor, Bachelor of Science, Multimedia (College of Liberal Studies) major, Computer Science (College of Engineering) minor at Oregon State University
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
back-end-development10
css10
eui10
typescript10
type-safety10
refactor10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
refactoring10
backend10
telemetry10
react10
accessibility9
system-design9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2403 reviews, 1094 commits, 2751 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim's commits focused on the Reporting feature in Kibana, specifically on removing `any` type usage to improve code maintainability and enhance telemetry. The user made changes to several components, including `poller.ts`, `create_job/compatibility_shim.ts`, `management/report_listing.tsx`, and `types.ts`, to improve type safety, and refactoring and restructuring server route files, and updating test and usage information. The code contributions focused on the server-side features of Kibana.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/eui
May 2017 - Nov 2018
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the UI framework by implementing and modifying React components within the Elastic UI (EUI) repository. Their work included fixing React warnings, adding new components such as `KuiInfoButton` and `KuiScreenReaderOnly`, and improving existing components like `KuiToolBarSearchBox`. These changes focused on improving accessibility, functionality, and design consistency within the EUI framework.
reactsasseuiui-frameworkelastic
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