Josh Speer
Sr. Support Engineer at Elastic
Rocklin, California, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Speer is a seasoned Sr. Support Engineer with 11 years of professional experience specializing in observability, cloud infrastructure, and systems automation. He currently supports Elastic stack deployments at scale, and has designed telemetry platforms that unify logs and metrics using Elasticsearch, Beats, Logstash, Kafka and Kibana. His background spans AWS, ESX, CloudStack, OpenStack and Docker, with hands-on storage, networking and configuration-management experience (SaltStack, collectd) gained across retail and SaaS environments. Known for pragmatic, low-cost fault-tolerant solutions, he’s comfortable from blade servers to cloud-native containers and enjoys turning noisy operational data into reliable, sleep-friendly monitoring. Based in Rocklin, CA, Josh pairs deep systems troubleshooting with a developer mindset—if it has a keyboard, he can fly it.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, General Studies, Diploma, General Studies at Hillsboro High School
English
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Github Skills (39)
search-engine10
observability10
java10
kibana10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
rest9
restful9
blockchain8
ethereum8
infrastructure7
go7
python7
logging7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Jul 2019 - Jul 2025
Your window into all of your data
Contributions:2 comments in 6 years
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/elasticsearch
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
restrestfulsearch-engineelasticsearchjava
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