Dave Russell
Program Manager at IBM
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarDave Russell is a seasoned program manager with four decades at IBM focused on software interoperability, open standards, and cloud computing technologies. He has driven program and certification development for standards bodies and communities including Cloud Standards Customer Council, OpenStack, TOSCA and OSLC, blending policy, marketing and technical program delivery. Based in Markham, Ontario, he combines strategic leadership across emerging software standards with hands-on contributions to open-source tooling—most recently contributing back-end and DevOps work to a Synology NAS packaging framework. Known for translating complex standards into practical adoption programs, he quietly pairs deep standards expertise with shell-level problem solving for real-world integrations.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
sh10
linux10
script10
cross-compiling10
shell10
devops10
package-management10
crossbuild10
scripting10
synology9
nas9
syn9
kernel-module8
embedded8
sys8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SynoCommunity/spksrc
Dec 2012 - Mar 2015
Cross compilation framework to create native packages for the Synology's NAS
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 1 push, 26 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the development of the LIRC package for Synology NAS devices, focusing on integrating it with the spksrc framework for cross-compilation. Their work involved writing shell scripts to manage the installation, startup, and control of the LIRC daemon. They also worked on the DSM integration, addressing the device setup and setting up the driver module and supporting UIRT drivers, and the modifications related to DSM versioning.
synologycompilationcdrnascross-compilation
bru7us/docker
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
containerscontainer-enginedocker
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