Greg Nieman
Retired Software Engineer, Amateur Developer, Guitarist, Golfer, Luthier And Dabbler
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Nieman is a retired software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience diagnosing and rescuing production Elastic Stack deployments, writing Java diagnostic tools, and improving shell-based support diagnostics for Elasticsearch and Logstash. Based in Cincinnati, he built a career at Elastic and related platform companies resolving complex data modeling, clustering, and performance issues across diverse environments. Greg pairs deep troubleshooting instincts with pragmatic tooling skills—often fixing systems by combining backend fixes, DevOps scripting, and careful environment handling. Now freelancing and pursuing luthiery, music, and golf, he brings a curious, maker’s mindset to both technical problems and craft projects. An understated detail: his open-source tweaks focus on portability and robustness, addressing real-world variability like differing Java installations.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Education, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Education at University of Cincinnati
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Github Skills (9)
sh10
script10
bash10
shell10
scripting10
javas8
java8
documentation6
testing6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/support-diagnostics
Aug 2015 - Dec 2020
Support diagnostics utility for elasticsearch and logstash
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:64 releases, 318 commits, 212 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the project by modifying and creating shell scripts for diagnostics. They improved these scripts to enhance their usability, and reliability, including fixes for different environments and to handle varying Java installations. They also updated the Readme.md file to reflect the code changes.
diagnosticslogstashelasticsearch
nemonster/es-support-plugin
Jan 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
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