Toby Brain
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Brain is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building performant, user-focused products and scalable platforms across front-end, backend and infrastructure. Currently at Elastic, he has progressed from SRE to principal-level engineering, blending deep operational know-how with software design. He has a strong track record modernizing cloud platforms—automating AWS footprints with Terraform, standardizing configuration management, and rebuilding critical database and ETL systems. Comfortable across many languages and stacks, Toby pairs hands-on coding with platform thinking to deliver reliable, maintainable services at scale. Based in Victoria, Australia, he’s equally at home shipping beautiful UIs or tuning distributed systems under the hood, and often surfaces operational lessons into better developer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (139)
opensearch10
dashboard10
ess10
terraform10
api-monitor10
php-library10
elasticsearch10
cloud-control10
visualizations10
monitoring10
campaign-monitor10
api10
data-visualization10
search-engine10
observability10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
heap/packaging
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Builds deb packages for private apt repo.
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
deb-packagesapt-repobuildslinuxapt
tobio/terraform-provider-ec
Sep 2022 - Aug 2024
Terraform provider for the Elasticsearch Service and Elastic Cloud Enterprise
Contributions:136 pushes, 89 branches, 1 tag in 2 years
providerelasticsearch-serviceelasticelasticsearchterraform-provider
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