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Professional Summary
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Innovative and results-driven Full Stack Engineer with over 15 years of experience in scaling systems, automating processes, and developing open-source software. Proven track record in executing ideas guided by vision and mission, uniting teams through effective communication, and growing product pipelines. Expertise in AWS infrastructure, DevOps practices, and building SaaS products from the ground up.
Innovative and results-driven Full Stack Engineer with over 15 years of experience in scaling systems, automating processes, and developing open-source software. Proven track record in executing ideas guided by vision and mission, uniting teams through effective communication, and growing product pipelines. Expertise in AWS infrastructure, DevOps practices, and growing SaaS products from the ground up.
Core Competencies
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Full Stack Development, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS), DevOps & CI/CD, System Architecture, Open Source Development, Team Leadership, Product Scaling, Security Implementation
Full Stack Development, Phyical & Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps & CI/CD, System Arch, FOSS Development, Team Leadership, Scaling, Security, and Cost Optimizations
Professional Experience
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Bootstrapped a multi-tenant e-commerce platform for digital & physical product sales.
Key Achievements:
- Developed & open-sourced a complete SaaS solution.
- Implemented commission-free selling model for shop owners.
- Hot wallet payments for Dogecoin and Monero crypto currencies with auto quotes based on cart totals.
- Authored "uncloseai. Machine Learning Reference Guide to Inference Clients" using machine learning, covering AI inference client implementations & streaming techniques across 42 programming languages.
Key Achievements: Developed & open-sourced a complete SaaS solution. Implemented commission-free selling model for shop owners. Hot wallet payments for Dogecoin and Monero crypto currencies with auto quotes based on cart totals. Authored "uncloseai. Machine Learning Reference Guide to Inference Clients" using machine learning to cover inference client implementations & streaming techniques across 42 programming languages.
Technologies: GNU/Linux, Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, Caddy
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Led the development & scaling of an AI assistant teacher for public schools, focusing on infrastructure management & application scaling.
Key Achievements:
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for monolithic applications & microservices using AWS CloudFormation and GitHub Actions.
- Scaled AI-powered educational tools using advanced language models (openai & anthropic).
- Developed teacher activity tracking tools, enhancing student progress monitoring capabilities.
- Teacher Dashboard for pause, fastforward, & restarting activities for students.
Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for two monolithic services using AWS CloudFormation and GitHub Actions. Scaled AI-powered educational tools using commodity language models (openai & anthropic). Implemented student monitoring tools to enhance the teacher's birds eye view of the classroom! Websocket enhancements like class pause, fastforward, & single-student restarts!
Technologies: AWS (CloudFormation, SAM, ECR, ECS, ALB), GitHub Actions, Docker, Nginx, uWSGI, Flask, Python
Technologies: AWS (CloudFormation, ECR, ECS, ALB), GitHub Actions, Docker, Nginx, uWSGI, Python
Senior Security Engineer
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Spearheaded security automation and compliance initiatives for SOC2 and FedRAMP environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implemented Terraform-based AWS account controls and user access management.
- Collaborated with scrum teams to ensure high-security integrity in product delivery.
- Utilized tools such as Gitlab Enterprise, Okta, DefectDojo, and CloudMapper.
Key Responsibilities: Implemented Terraform-based AWS account controls and user access management. Collaborated with scrum teams to ensure high-security integrity in product delivery. Utilized tools such as Gitlab Enterprise, Okta, DefectDojo, and CloudMapper.
Lead Software Engineer
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Managed AWS infrastructure and led cloud cost optimization, security enhancements, and developer productivity improvements.
Key Achievements:
- Ensured critical services scaled during COVID-19 lockdowns, supporting distance learning initiatives.
- Implemented infrastructure-as-code using Python and Stacker.
- Contributed to SlashDeploy, a Ruby-based tool enabling GitHub deployments via Slack commands, pioneering deployment automation before modern CI/CD platforms.
- Authored technical blog posts on infrastructure migration and status updates.
Ensured critical services scaled during COVID-19 lockdowns, supporting distance learning initiatives. Implemented infrastructure-as-code using Python and Stacker. Contributed to SlashDeploy, a Ruby-based tool enabling GitHub deployments via Slack commands, pioneering deployment automation before modern CI/CD platforms. Authored technical blog posts.
Technologies: AWS (ECS, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB), GNU/Linux, Python, Ruby, CloudFormation
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- **Operating Systems**: GNU/Linux, Debian, Redhat, Alpine
- **Programming**: Python, Bash, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, Java
- **Cloud**: AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean
- **DevOps**: Gitlab, SaltStack, Ansible, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, Firecracker, KVM, libvirt, gitlab-ci runners
- **DevOps**: Gitlab, SaltStack, Ansible, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, Firecracker, LXD/LXC, KVM, libvirt, gitlab-ci runners
- **Databases**: Sqlite3, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB
- **Web**: Flask, Pyramid, uWSGI, Nginx, Apache, Caddy, Websockets, OpenAPI,
- **Web**: Flask, Pyramid, uWSGI, Nginx, Apache, Caddy, SSE, Websockets, OpenAPI,
Additional Information
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- Make Post Sell: https://www.makepostsell.com
- Remarkbox: https://www.remarkbox.com
- uncloseai.com: https://uncloseai.com
- self-hosted gitlab repos: https://git.unturf.com/engineering/
- uncloseai.com 42 inference clients & book: https://uncloseai.com
- All Russell's self-hosted gitlab repos: https://git.unturf.com/engineering/