Summary
Ben Russell is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, user-focused applications across enterprise and government environments. Based in the Portland metro area, he has delivered full-stack solutions from Spring Boot services and Angular frontends to JavaFX rewrites, and has hands-on AWS experience (ECS, Kinesis) and observability tooling (New Relic, Splunk). At Nike he modernized authentication with Okta and led migrations to containerized infrastructure; at Moda Health he continues to apply that same operational rigor to healthcare software. Comfortable in fast-paced startups and regulated settings alike, he repeatedly improves testing, release automation, and onboarding to reduce toil and risk. Ben’s background—anchored by a computer science degree and a history of building practical tooling (including a release-packaging utility at Boeing)—reflects a bias for solving real operational problems, not just shipping features.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in process, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in process, Computer Science at University of Washington Tacoma
transfer degree, Computer Science, 3.5, transfer degree, Computer Science, 3.5 at Portland Community College