# How to become an ElasticSearch expert **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\ **Created:** [January 13, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-become-an-elasticsearch-expert/164057 "2019-01-13T20:58:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ordner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/41988e/32.png) [@ordner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ordner)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-become-an-elasticsearch-expert/164057/1 "2019-01-13T20:58:26Z")
Hi. I have been on my current project for about a year now and in that time I have had the chance to get to know ElasticSearch from the request side in all its glory: - making requests from the browser natively and with tools like bodybuilder (just for dev purposes, in prod its all behind a proxy of course) - making requests from a Java based backend and integration-testing the whole thing with Docker-Testcontainers - making batch-requests in Python and integrating them into a Luigi-based data-pipeline and filling a new index - making specialized score-calculation queries - making completion-suggester queries from user-generated search-inputs (this is why the pipeline was needed) - performance-optimizing queries with fitting must-clauses and avoiding nested objects etc - aggregation queries and other complex queries Now I am interested into diving deeper. I want to know how to setup and manage and scale a cluster in production and how to create proper (searchable) logs with Beats/Logstash and clean them up with Kurator and get to know all the other tools from the Ecosystem. But unfortunately on my current project I have no chance to do any of that. So I was wondering what I can do to get hired as an ElasticSearch freelancer one day? Are there any certificates you can recommend? Any certified trainings with practical knowledge? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-become-an-elasticsearch-expert/164057/2 "2019-01-13T22:07:19Z")
We have a number of training courses on our site - [https://training.elastic.co/](https://training.elastic.co/) - including becoming an Elastic Certified Engineer. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-become-an-elasticsearch-expert/164057/3 "2022-11-04T06:50:47Z")