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Articles by Shane Connelly

Principal Solutions Architect, Elastic

Principal Solutions Architect

Shane Connelly is a product manager at Elastic, with a focus on Elasticsearch. Prior to Elastic, he spent the last seven years developing, architecting, and managing search and analytics products, working as the product manager for the enterprise search unit of HP's big data platform.

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