Costin Leau

Senior Principal Engineer at Elastic
Summary
Costin Leau is an engineer at Elasticsearch, the reputable company responsible for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, which are renowned as leading open-source solutions in big data search and analytics.
He is a seasoned speaker, presenting at various prestigious conferences like EclipseCon, Devoxx, JavaOne, and more, covering a range of Java, data, and Spring-related topics.
His expertise lies in Elasticsearch, Spring framework, Java Enterprise, Persistence, NoSQL, Big Data, Hadoop, and OSGi.
Costin Leau's educational background includes Computer Science studies at 'Cantemir Voda' National College, postgraduate studies in Advanced Computer Architectures, and an MSc in Computer Science with a major in Artificial Intelligence, all from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest.
Throughout his career, he has held key positions such as Senior Principal Engineer at Elasticsearch, Staff Engineer at VMware in the SpringSource Division, Project Lead at Spring Modules, and various roles at SpringSource.
Costin Leau's organizational experience spans several notable roles, including CTO positions at Transbility and Prominic.RO / Nextate in Bucharest, as well as Course author at E-Business Academy / IBM, among other technical roles in leading companies in Bucharest.