Andrew Anderson
About Andrew Anderson
Walked the world spreading the goodness and the joy of Elastic, over three years direct experience guiding customers of all size, use case, and deployment environments through their journey with the stack. From first deployment with rpms or tarballs on a few servers or local demo, to full scale environments with hundreds of servers using Ansible or other suited tooling like CloudFormation or Terraform, bringing deep familiarity with all aspects of Elastic and system, software and architecture to bear when working with teams across the world, industry, use case, terminal. Code review expertise of hundreds of codebases, development environments, styles, workflows - stepped through in person, on Zoom calls, offering a critical eye for best practices, bad practices, and ways to improve most code bases. Triple digits of customers visited, sat with, and clusters worked on while spreading the goodness of Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack. Ten year path of full stack experience in the world of Lucene, NoSQL, document stores, and ultimately JSON, big data. A career in coding from the front to back-end, where Java webapps turned into Javascript dev with node.js, towards ETL and ingest with Logstash, Beats, scripting and now doing everything in and while learning Go/Golang Lead interviewer of the consulting team in most every panel agreed to and available for, if not pulled into as extreme-need, special operations need for extreme competency, flexibility for ensuring candidates best represent themselves through the grueling process. Teaching as primary instructor the classes that would become the foundation of the primary training path with Elastic: Eng 1, Eng 2. Certifiable in Elastic since then, eventually taking the exam to become a properly Certified Elastic Engineer. Petabyte scale cluster, node, index, shard sizing and capacity planning, from the dome and onto whiteboards, in discussion with CIOs, CTOs, CEOs on demand. Assuming role of 'tip of the spear' during weekly, daily, sometimes hourly fire-fighting sessions in conference rooms, data centers, Zoom sessions, NOCs, SOCs, C2 centers throughout the world, with as many teams and developers, admins, analysts, managers, architects, and leaders of organizations as can help push a team, developer, and organization towards continuously improved, optimized, performant and cost-effective use case of the Elastic stack. Super super user, focusing on Go/Golang system engineering, dev-ops and moving away from Python, Node.js boilerplate and dependency mismanagement.