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Afewu Hughes

@afewuhughes

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I build secure, highly available Elasticsearch search and observability platforms.

United States

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I've deployed and administered Elastic Stack platforms for ECS Federal Technologies and ManTech International Corporation, supporting enterprise search, centralized logging, analytics, monitoring, and observability across Kubernetes, Azure, and hybrid environments.

I build highly available Elasticsearch clusters, optimize shards, JVM heap, storage, indexing, and search performance, and engineer Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Agent ingestion pipelines. I also create Kibana dashboards, Elastic APM views, Watcher alerting, ILM and snapshot workflows, and automate operations with Terraform, CI/CD, Git, Python, Helm, and N8N while partnering with DevOps, security, and application teams.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Elasticsearch / Elastic Stack Engineer

ECS Federal Technologies

Dec 2022 - Nov 2025 (2 years 11 months)

Deployed and administered the Elastic Stack for enterprise search, logging, and observability. Built and optimized highly available Elasticsearch clusters on Kubernetes with Helm, and engineered ingestion pipelines and Kibana dashboards.

Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana Elastic Agent Kubernetes Helm Terraform CI CD Git Python N8n ILM Shard Allocation JVM Tuning

Elasticsearch Engineer

ManTech International Corporation

Nov 2019 - Dec 2022 (3 years 1 month)

Supported design, deployment, and administration of highly available Elasticsearch clusters across Azure and on-premises environments. Configured Logstash, Filebeat, and Metricbeat pipelines, and created Kibana dashboards and alerting.

Elasticsearch Logstash Filebeat Kibana Azure Troubleshooting