{"id":11,"date":"2021-10-25T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-03-17T04:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T04:10:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer, hobbyist video game creator, ex-welder, and all around nerd. <a href=\"http:\/\/@gregoryjcoates.bsky.social\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"@gregoryjcoates.bsky.social\">@gregoryjcoates.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spent years as a welder before going back to school while working still and changing careers. Got in as a junior ETL developer as a contractor, got recommended for and hired on into the company I was contracted to for their DevOps department and finished up my BS in Game Programming and Development. Been doing that for a few years now and continuing to expand out my skill set and knowledge base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expertise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Elasticsearch and the ELK stack<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Golang, Python<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kubernetes, Gitlab, and similar tools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observability, Monitoring, Alerting and Logging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Azure, Cloud<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>General knowledge of:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>.NET, Zig, SQL and a few other languages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ETL, Backend, Frontend<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ML, AI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hobbies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hiking, Cycling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Books, Manga, Anime, Video Games<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer tech<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Skills:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Planning, Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Troubleshooting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer, hobbyist video game creator, ex-welder, and all around nerd. @gregoryjcoates.bsky.social Spent years as a welder before going back to school while working still and changing careers. Got in as a junior ETL developer as a contractor, got recommended for and hired on into the company I was contracted to for their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregoryjcoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}