Xavier Mouligneau is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and APIs, currently shaping alerting and rule-management features at Elastic in New York. He has a strong track record across enterprise and defense sectors—from GE Power and Capital One to QinetiQ—bringing practical experience in systems architecture and large-scale production services. At Elastic he contributes to the widely used Kibana project, focusing on privilege fixes, detection API updates, and refactoring the rule registry to improve reliability and security. Trained in computer sciences and electronics engineering at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, he combines rigorous engineering foundations with hands-on backend development. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge legacy systems and modern observability platforms, and he often surfaces subtle privilege and rule-management edge cases that prevent costly incidents.
Contributions:1611 reviews, 528 commits, 1237 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily contributed to the backend logic and API of the Kibana platform. The commits showcase a focus on fixing privilege issues and enhancing functionalities related to alerts and rule management within the Elastic Stack. They also worked on updating detection APIs and refactoring backend code, primarily interacting with the rule registry and various components of the Kibana framework.
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Contributions:8 PRs, 1745 pushes, 923 branches in 6 years 5 months
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Xavier Mouligneau - Sr Software Engineer at Elastic