{"id":407,"date":"2023-06-10T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2023-06-26T03:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T03:21:15","slug":"main","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About Studio Ikostra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Studio Ikostra is the digital brand of Nikita Ostrander, a software developer and hobbyist photographer currently based in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been mucking about in the internals of computers since my childhood years. After spending several years exploring my artistic side, I eventually, discovered that what I really wanted to do is to become a software engineer. I was inspired by the developments in machine learning and computational intelligence that made headlines in the first half of the 2010&#8217;s, and I knew that I wanted to be a part of building that future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To further that goal, I re-enrolled in school. I went to community college part-time at first (while working full-time to pay the bills). Eventually I transferred to Washington State University. to complete my BS degree. WSU was a tremendous experience and I learned a great deal as I pursued my computer science degree with a specialization in data science and machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After graduation, I began working in the energy industry, working to build a smarter power grid. I have worked in this industry since 2021 and I am happy that I can say my professional work has a positive impact on our planet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Ikostra is the digital brand of Nikita Ostrander, a software developer and hobbyist photographer currently based in Portland, Oregon. I have been mucking about in the internals of computers since my childhood years. After spending several years exploring my artistic side, I eventually, discovered that what I really wanted to do is to become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-407","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}