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Work History
Education
Skills
Pre 2013 experience
Hobbies and Interests
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John Judge

Vancouver,BC

Summary

I work with Elasticsearch because I genuinely enjoy it, I've always got a couple of stacks running at home. I take pride in my work, I engineer for resilient, performant stacks. I enjoy sharing what I've learnt being part of team.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Elasticsearch Engineer

Farmers Edge
Winnipeg, MB
11.2021 - 04.2024
  • Rearchitected the company’s production clusters resulting in 70% savings
  • Migrated the main 150 node cluster from Azure to GCP, upgrading from 6.8 to 7.17
  • Introduced vector and hybrid search
  • Built a comprehensive monitoring and alerting system to oversee the company’s infrastructure, application performance, cloud operations and SIEM activity
  • Mentored colleagues on building Kibana dashboards and Canvas infographics
  • Built a CI/CD system to build and orchestrate the clusters with zero downtime.

Elasticsearch Consultant

Cybersecurity ISA
Toronto, ON
08.2021 - 10.2022
  • Repaired and stabilised their production clusters
  • Designed and consulted on new cluster architecture, documented it, trained the staff and handed over.

Elasticsearch Consultant

Hubba
Toronto, ON
05.2019 - 03.2021
  • Hubba were an e-commerce company, I was built and maintained the ELK clusters for system monitoring, log aggregation, social media monitoring and business intelligence.

Support II Engineer

Elastic.co
Remote
09.2018 - 04.2019
  • Supported and consulted on all aspects of the Elastic Stack and eco-system
  • The clients systems and requirements would range from a few nodes for a startup to several hundred nodes managing terabytes of data for blue chip and federal clients.

Elasticsearch Consultant

Freelance / contracting
Remote
08.2017 - 08.2018
  • Support a variety of clients, utilising every component of the Elastic eco system
  • Everything from greenfield builds to reviving broken production clusters.

ELK Stack Engineer

Method Studios
Vancouver, BC
03.2017 - 07.2017
  • Method had little to no observability on VFX shots as they were processed through their pipeline into their 1700 node render farm
  • I built an ELK stack to track the jobs, dashboards for observability and alerting the artists when a shot had failed.

ELK Stack / DevOps Engineer

Hyperwallet
Vancouver, BC
07.2014 - 02.2017
  • Built a new DR center and switchover mechanism for a client, using MySQL replication and Rsync to refresh the Tomcat application
  • Worked with the Dev team giving them deeper insight to the running systems using Appdynamics (On Site), RHQ and Packetbeat Introduced Agile work practices, brought in Appdynamics and ELK for performance monitoring
  • Supported the company's production systems running Glassfish on Centos platforms working closely with the developers.

Systems Administrator

University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
05.2013 - 05.2014
  • Primary duties were supporting the Tomcat based remote learning environments running the Blackboard application
  • Most rewarding accomplishment was building an ELK Cluster with a Redis broker that processed over 50 million documents daily
  • As well as providing realtime visualisations the cluster was also engineered to handle retrospective forensic analysis.

Education

High School Diploma -

Southport College of Technology
Southport, UK
07-1993

Skills

  • Elasticsearch /Kibana / Logstash
  • Monitoring / alerting
  • Elastic Agent / Beats/ Fleet
  • Machine Learning
  • Design optimization
  • Engineering Documentation
  • System Troubleshooting
  • Linux Sys Admin
  • J2EE administration
  • Disaster Recovery

Pre 2013 experience

I was based in the UK, working as a J2EE admin (websphere, jboss, etc) for 10 years,which in turn built upon several years as a Linux systems administrator. I worked primarily in the broadcast, media and telecoms industries.

Hobbies and Interests

Taking my son to sci-fi conventions and general dad-stuff

Timeline

Elasticsearch Engineer

Farmers Edge
11.2021 - 04.2024

Elasticsearch Consultant

Cybersecurity ISA
08.2021 - 10.2022

Elasticsearch Consultant

Hubba
05.2019 - 03.2021

Support II Engineer

Elastic.co
09.2018 - 04.2019

Elasticsearch Consultant

Freelance / contracting
08.2017 - 08.2018

ELK Stack Engineer

Method Studios
03.2017 - 07.2017

ELK Stack / DevOps Engineer

Hyperwallet
07.2014 - 02.2017

Systems Administrator

University of British Columbia
05.2013 - 05.2014

High School Diploma -

Southport College of Technology

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