--- title: "Caine Nielsen | Caine's home base" canonical_url: "https://cainenielsen.com/career/education" last_updated: "2026-09-22T09:12:22.497Z" meta: author: "Caine Nielsen" description: "Caine Nielsen's personal website and home base. Learn more about Caine Nielsen, his career as a software engineer, and about his family and projects." "og:description": "Caine Nielsen's personal website and home base. Learn more about Caine Nielsen, his career as a software engineer, and about his family and projects." "og:title": "Caine Nielsen" "twitter:description": "Caine Nielsen's personal website and home base. Learn more about Caine Nielsen, his career as a software engineer, and about his family and projects." "twitter:title": "Caine Nielsen" --- # Education ## Independent Learning Self-directed, ongoing education outside of any formal classroom. ### Self-Teaching & Continued Education Ongoing I never stopped building. I maintain a home server lab where I experiment with self-hosted apps, deployment automation, and cloud-native tooling. I've published open source tools and internal packages, and I'm constantly learning more about platform engineering, DevOps, GitOps, and SRE best practices, because I believe in understanding the whole system, not just one layer of the stack. ## Primerica Primerica is a financial services company offering life insurance and financial planning through independent licensed representatives. ### Life & Health Insurance Licensing Course 2018Utah Completed Primerica's pre-licensing coursework and state exam prep, earning licensure to sell life insurance and financial products in Utah. ## GoPro A course in photography and videography built around GoPro action cameras, taken while supporting the GoPro product line at ModusLink. ### Photography & Videography Course 2017Orem, UT Learned photography and videography fundamentals through the lens of GoPro's action camera lineup, deepening my product knowledge while supporting GoPro customers. ## Lehi High School Public high school in Lehi, Utah. ### High School Diploma 2011 – 2015Lehi, UT Took every technical class I could find: programming, graphic design, desktop publishing, and drafting and 3D modeling with AutoCAD. Technology felt like magic I could control, and I wanted to learn it all.