Costin Leau

Costin Leau is a Distinguished Engineer at Elasticsearch, a company renowned for its open-source solutions in big data search and analytics, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. His professional journey includes significant contributions to the development of Elasticsearch SQL, a comprehensive SQL engine that encompasses parsing, analyzing, verifying, optimizing, and planning queries, as well as providing a JDBC driver and data protocol.2

Educational Background

Costin holds a strong academic foundation in Computer Science, having studied at 'Cantemir Voda' National College and later obtaining an MSc in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest. He has also completed postgraduate studies in Advanced Computer Architectures.

Professional Experience

Before his current role at Elasticsearch, Costin served as:

• Senior Principal Engineer at Elasticsearch
• Staff Engineer at VMware within the SpringSource Division
• Project Lead for Spring Modules
• Various technical roles at SpringSource and other notable companies in Bucharest.3

Areas of Expertise

His expertise spans several domains, including:

• Elasticsearch
• Spring Framework
• Java Enterprise
• NoSQL
• Big Data
• Hadoop
• OSGi

Additionally, he is an accomplished speaker at major conferences such as EclipseCon, Devoxx, and JavaOne, where he shares insights on Java and data-related topics.1

Online Presence

Costin is active on platforms like GitHub and LinkedIn, where he shares his work and engages with the developer community. His LinkedIn profile can be found under the username "costin" .2