Summary
Bobby Russell is a Principal DevOps Engineer based in Los Angeles with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating distributed, fault-tolerant systems for large media organizations. At The Walt Disney Company and Fox he has focused on developer-centric DevOps—building CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, and resilient cloud deployments using Ansible, Jenkins, Botocore/AWS, and CDN integrations. Comfortable across the stack, he has built telemetry-driven test schedulers with Django/Celery/Redis and driven monitoring and reliability through Icinga and New Relic. He thrives on challenging problems and quickly picks up new skills, pairing operational rigor with a developer’s mindset to streamline large-scale deployments. An unexpected asset is his background in political science and philosophy, which informs his pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to complex engineering trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science / Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science / Philosophy at University of Central Florida