{"id":242,"date":"2010-03-03T03:33:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T03:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knightware.net\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-11-13T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T18:29:06","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.knightware.net\/?page_id=242","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Derek Smithson.  I&#8217;m a programmer, father, and tech enthusiast.  If there are new gadgets or software to be explored, I&#8217;m probably there.  I work mostly out of my home office down in Phoenix, Arizona where I&#8217;ve lived for over 20 years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Find me on the internet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Twitter <\/strong>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/knight012\" target=\"_blank\">@knight012<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Facebook <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.smithson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">derek.smithson<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Instagram <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/smithson.derek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smithson.derek<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>YouTube<\/strong> (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCJ-QJlCxT6gVkrcOF_ZgRTg\" target=\"_blank\">DerekSmithson<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I worked for ~12 years at Vista Systems (later acquired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiedigital.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christie Digital<\/a>) where I started in technical support and cut my teeth to become a developer primarily focused on products like the Spyder Video processor series.  I left there for a few years to work at IO Datacenters (later acquired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ironmountain.com\/data-centers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Iron Mountain<\/a>) and was spun out to a technology company called Baselayer which made datacenter software and modules (think shipping containers that house servers but don&#8217;t tell them I said that).  After a couple of years working on datacenter software, I went back to Christie Digital for a stint where I worked on Spyder X80 and the Terra SDVoE video processing products, but only lasted about a year.  I&#8217;ve been working at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpsinsight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GPS Insight<\/a> in Scottsdale, Arizona for over two years now.  It&#8217;s a wonderful company with wonderful people, and I have been absolutely loving solving hard problems at scale.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note: this blog, its content and opinions are my own.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Derek Smithson. I&#8217;m a programmer, father, and tech enthusiast. If there are new gadgets or software to be explored, I&#8217;m probably there. I work mostly out of my home office down in Phoenix, Arizona where I&#8217;ve lived for over 20 years now. Find me on the internet Background I worked for ~12 [&hellip;]<\/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-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightware.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightware.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightware.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightware.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightware.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightware.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4106,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightware.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightware.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}