Tom Myers
Tech Lead - Observability at Elastic
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Myers is a tech lead and Python specialist with a background in observability engineering and over a decade of industry experience spanning embedded systems to large-scale backend services. Currently leading Observability at Elastic, he has made notable contributions to the Kibana ecosystem around entity discovery, API key management, and ingestion pipelines that bridge product and infrastructure concerns. Previously he led technical delivery for the UK Ministry of Justice’s Probation Reform Programme and built APM agent expertise at AppDynamics, giving him deep domain knowledge in telemetry and performance tooling. Comfortable across databases, messaging, containers and compiled languages, he emphasizes code quality, maintainability and exceptionally thorough testing. Known for strong communication skills, he translates complex technical trade-offs for stakeholders at all levels. Based in Sheffield and holding an MEng in Electronic Engineering from Southampton, he brings a hardware-to-cloud perspective that helps surface non-obvious system interactions early in design.
3 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronic Engineering, First Class Honours, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronic Engineering, First Class Honours at University of Southampton
Github Skills (22)
observability10
data-pipelines10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
entity-manager10
amazon-elasticsearch10
entity-model10
kibana10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
pipe10
pipeline10
elasticsearch10
backend10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:92 reviews, 18 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on enhancing the entity management features within the Kibana project, particularly focusing on entity discovery. Their contributions included implementing APIs for managing API keys, enabling entity discovery, and integrating entity definitions. These changes involved modifications to ingest pipelines and transform processes within the Elastic Stack, demonstrating expertise in backend development and related infrastructure. The user also refactored and improved code related to entity definition validation and Open API documentation.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
tommyers-elastic/integrations
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
Elastic Integrations
Contributions:94 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years 9 months
elasticopcodesintegrationselasticsearch
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