Toby Brain
Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarToby Brain is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building performant, user-focused products and scalable platforms across front-end, backend and infrastructure. Currently at Elastic, he has progressed from SRE to principal-level engineering, blending deep operational know-how with software design. He has a strong track record modernizing cloud platforms—automating AWS footprints with Terraform, standardizing configuration management, and rebuilding critical database and ETL systems. Comfortable across many languages and stacks, Toby pairs hands-on coding with platform thinking to deliver reliable, maintainable services at scale. Based in Victoria, Australia, he’s equally at home shipping beautiful UIs or tuning distributed systems under the hood, and often surfaces operational lessons into better developer experiences.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (102)
ess10
swagger10
terraform10
php-library10
elasticsearch10
rest-api10
cloud-control10
visualizations10
openapi10
monitoring10
go-client10
rest10
golang10
search-engine10
observability10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tobio/terraform-provider-ec
Sep 2022 - Jul 2026
Terraform provider for the Elasticsearch Service and Elastic Cloud Enterprise
Contributions:146 pushes, 99 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 10 months
providerelasticsearch-serviceelasticelasticsearchterraform-provider
heap/packaging
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Builds deb packages for private apt repo.
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
deb-packagesapt-repobuildslinuxapt
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