Summary
Gabe Russotto is a Staff Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 12 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems and cloud infrastructure. He has driven architecture, AWS/Terraform deployments, and CI/CD for startups and large platforms alike, most recently at Fanatics after senior engineering roles at Zingeroo and Happy Money. Gabe’s background spans languages and stacks—from Clojure and Elixir to C++ and Java—enabling him to optimize performance-critical services handling billions of requests and terabytes of data. He frequently takes on end-to-end ownership including feature delivery, production support, on-call rotations, and mentoring junior engineers. Notably, he led migrations to microservice architectures and designed data layers (Cassandra, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch) that powered real-time analytics and ad-serving systems. Colleagues know him for pragmatic, creative solutions and a nerdy curiosity that shows up in both system design and hands-on engineering.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Colorado at Denver
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Colorado at Boulder