Damien Russell
Director Of Engineering at Generation Tux
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Russell is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms and e-commerce systems from Louisville, KY. He progressed from full-stack PHP/Laravel development to leading infrastructure work—architecting AWS VPCs, managing multiple Kubernetes clusters running 600+ containers, and implementing CI/CD for 15+ microservices in diverse languages. Known as Generation Tux’s primary Laravel/PHP specialist and DevOps engineer, he also maintains data ingestion pipelines and warehouse ETL, and supports large-scale warehouse automation and customer service portals. Damien balances practical engineering with creativity and enjoys mentoring teams through complex migrations and platform consolidation. He’s vocal about his tech preferences (notably excluding .NET), is a gamer and father, and brings a pragmatic, artisan approach to sustainable engineering.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer and Information Sciences General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer and Information Sciences General at Berea College
Github Skills (58)
health9
lumen9
salesforce8
wrapper8
aws8
gcp8
laravel8
alexa-skills-kit8
amazon7
linode7
kubernetes7
rest7
profiling7
go7
api7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
generationtux/php-healthz
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
Health checks for PHP apps
Contributions:9 releases, 13 reviews, 29 commits in 4 years 8 months
healthcheckhealthphpcheckshealth-checks
Olofguard/alexa-demo
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
Bare Laravel App Ready for Alexa Development
Contributions:7 PRs, 9 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years
laravel-ready-appphpbarealexalaravel
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