Gerad Coles
Founder And Brewmaster at Prairie Dog Brewing CANADA Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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SeniorGerad Coles is a hybrid tech-founder who has spent 11+ years architecting resilient infrastructure and scaling datacenter-to-cloud operations before bootstrapping Prairie Dog Brewing CANADA as Founder and Brewmaster. He combines deep systems experience—designing monitoring, automation, and virtualized environments for companies like iStockphoto, Shaw, and Polyvore—with hands-on brewery design, recipe development, and financial planning. Comfortable shifting between C-level strategy and wrench-turning implementation, Gerad has repeatedly rebuilt critical operational systems to increase capacity, reliability, and observability. Based in Calgary, he pairs a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering Technology with creative pursuits—photography, woodworking, guitar—that inform his artisanal approach to brewing and product experience. Unusually, his background in large-scale fault management and automation guides how he approaches brewery operations, bringing discipline and scalability to hospitality.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish
Github Skills (31)
validating6
cryptography6
backpack6
python6
displays6
cryptanalysis6
public-key-cryptography5
controlling5
cert5
docker-image4
identity4
toolbox4
hosts4
raspberry4
segment4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
prairiedogbeer/fermenator
Jun 2017 - Nov 2022
Fermentation monitoring and management software
Contributions:5 PRs, 169 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 5 months
monitoringsoftware-managementfermentation
geradcoles/random-name
Jul 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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