Josh Speer
Sr. Support Engineer at Elastic
Rocklin, California, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Speer is a Sr. Support Engineer at Elastic with 10 years of experience building observability and cloud platforms. He specializes in the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, Kibana) and has designed telemetry pipelines using Kafka, Filebeat/Metricbeat and Kibana to correlate logs and metrics. His infrastructure breadth spans AWS, ESX, CloudStack, OpenStack and Docker and extends into storage and networking (NetApp, Nimble, F5, Cisco), enabling end-to-end solutions from blade servers to cloud. A hands-on automation advocate (SaltStack, scripting) with a "keyboard-first" pragmatism, he focuses on reducing operational toil so teams can actually sleep at night. Based in Rocklin, California, he blends deep systems experience with practical, low-cost fault-tolerant architectures.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, General Studies, Diploma, General Studies at Hillsboro High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
search-engine10
java10
elasticsearch10
opensearch9
blockchain9
restful9
logging8
streaming8
ethereum8
transport7
visualizations7
infrastructure-management7
infrastructure7
iot7
scale7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
Unity-Technologies/NavMeshComponents
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
High Level API Components for Runtime NavMesh Building
Contributions:4 comments, 3 issues in 1 day
apihigh-levelruntimenavmeshhigh-level-api
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