Andrew Poland
Vice President Of Logistics at Surge Staffing
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Poland is a logistics and contingent labor leader with 20 years of experience helping organizations scale workforce solutions and meet strategic hiring initiatives. Currently Vice President of Logistics at Surge Staffing in Columbus, he combines hands-on recruiting experience across warehouse, distribution, and sales roles with senior business development and operations oversight. His background spans recruiting, sales leadership, and client-facing development roles at firms like Dawson, Tailored Management, and Spectrum, giving him a keen understanding of both talent supply and commercial growth. Andrew’s practical problem-solving is informed by diverse studies in exercise science and criminal justice, reflecting a hands-on, process-oriented mindset. He also contributes to open-source tooling on the back end—improving search and sorting in a popular Kibana log-viewing plugin—demonstrating technical curiosity beyond pure staffing. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic workforce strategies that align hiring execution with broader company objectives.
20 years of coding experience
Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice at The University of ToledoExercise Science, Exercise Science at Owens Community CollegeCentral Catholic High School, Toledo Ohio
Github Skills (13)
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
elasticsearch10
javascript10
logging10
aws-elasticsearch10
kibana10
elasticsearch-api10
server-side10
apidoc9
back-end-development9
api9
nodejs9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sivasamyk/logtrail
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
Kibana plugin to view, search & live tail log events
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the server-side logic of the logtrail Kibana plugin. Their work focused on modifying the server-side route (`server/routes/server.js`) to enhance search functionality, including adding secondary sorting on the 'offset' column. They also integrated and modified existing code for host aggregations and config loading and implemented the secondary sort to match the primary sort order. These changes are focused on improving the data retrieval and presentation capabilities of the plugin.
kibana-pluginkibanaelasticsearchpapertraillogstash
apoland/redcardrobot
Mar 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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