Valentin Crettaz
Principal Product Manager Admin Experience at Elastic
Fully, Wallis, Switzerland
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Top SchoolValentin Crettaz is a Principal Product Manager specializing in admin experience at Elastic with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale search and observability platforms. He blends deep Elasticsearch/OpenSearch operational expertise with product leadership across the Elastic Stack and modern ML/Generative AI techniques including vector/semantic search and GPT integrations. Valentin’s background spans founding and consulting roles, senior engineering and architect positions, and advising high-availability deployments for multi-TB clusters—bringing a rare mix of customer empathy and low-level operational know-how. He has also worked as a technical editor and advisor on distributed systems topics, showing a long-standing commitment to clear technical communication. Based in Switzerland, he quietly bridges product strategy and operational reality, turning complex search and data challenges into usable admin experiences.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Accounting, Accounting at Institut de Formation Permanente (Fribourg, Switzerland)Sciences German Mathematics Physics English, Sciences German Mathematics Physics English at Kollegium Spiritus Sanctus (Brig, Switzerland)CO LeytronMaster Computer Sciences, Master Computer Sciences at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)Electronics, Electronics at Onken Institute (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland)
French, English, German, Italian
Stackoverflow
212,907reputation
11.9mreached
4,965answers
5questions
mysql
top-5%
elasticsearch
top-1%
sorting
top-5%
logging
top-5%
java
top-1%
spring
top-5%
Github Skills (50)
lucene10
json10
billing10
python10
nosql10
invoice10
indexing10
amazon-web-services10
kibana10
java10
javas10
osgi10
aggregations10
logstash10
rest10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
consulthys/node-red-contrib-logstash
Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
consulthys/rets-client
Nov 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributions:60 commits, 39 pushes, 1 issue in 6 years 6 months
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