William Chaparro
Senior Engineering Manager at Elastic
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Chaparro is a senior engineering manager based in Pittsburgh with over two decades of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently leading teams at Elastic. He specializes in bringing research-driven AI and search technologies to production via strong architecture, agile practices, and a focus on software craftsmanship and user empathy. At IBM he led multiple distributed teams to deliver cloud-native, microservices-based search and information retrieval platforms on tight timelines and ran 24/7 support rotations for production services. He combines technical depth in Java, Elasticsearch/Solr, Kubernetes, and CI/CD with people-first management—hiring, mentoring, and driving process transformation. Known for turning state-of-the-art techniques from research into shipping products, he excels at aligning product, research, and engineering to deliver measurable outcomes.
5 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (9)
restful10
elasticsearch10
search-engine10
rest10
java10
visualizations6
kibana5
observability5
elastic5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
wchaparro/elasticsearch
Aug 2021 - Apr 2026
Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
restrestfulsearch-engine
elastic/elasticsearch
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:1 review, 1 commit, 18 PRs in 1 day
restrestfulsearch-engineelasticsearchjava
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