About Whit
Whitney L. Wilger, or Whit as she prefers to be called, is a Las Vegas, Nevada based dabbler (See Also: Artist, a term she uses seldomly) and IT professional. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Whit spent her early years taking AP Art classes in high school and later majored briefly in Fine Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Her love of nature eventually led her to complete her college education with a Bachelor of Science in Geology, and while she never imagined 'working artist' as a career, the leisure pursuit has proved the perfect outlet for her imaginative mind.
Work Life and Career
Whit is employed as a Senior Data Engineer for a Healthcare SaaS scale-up based in Indianapolis, Indiana. She specializes in cloud data movement, specifically leveraging Amazon Web Services and Snowflake Data Warehouse technologies. She is a detail oriented problem solver, a skill which also plays a part in her dabbling, and thoroughly enjoys a good 'needle in a haystack' type hunt.
Personal Life and Interests
Whit lives with her husband John, their Labrador Retriever, Cosmic Charlie, and their Dachshund, Althea, in Oceanside, California. Both Whit and John are music aficionados and attend concerts often. Whit is a huge fan of Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, as evidenced in some of her dabbling and in her dog name choices (yes, those are both Jerry songs) . She is also a lover of Polynesian Pop style tiki, so much so that she designed and created a home tiki bar, The Laki Fallout Shelter, which you can view in great detail on the Install page. The overall theme of the bar is that of a defunct bomb shelter, which has been reimagined as a tiki bar with nods to atomic testing and it's history in Las Vegas and on the Las Vegas Strip. Whit tends bar at The Laki Fallout Shelter and works on her mixology skills when she is not dabbling or solving IT problems.