James Russo
Software Engineer at HeyGen
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJames Russo is a San Francisco–based software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, developer tools, and consumer-facing products across startups and scale-ups. He has led backend and infra initiatives at Brex—saving the company millions via a microservices testing platform and launching high-impact products like Bill Pay—and migrated large datasets and infrastructures to GCP as Technical Lead at Empirical Health. Comfortable across stacks (Ruby on Rails, Python/Flask, Elixir, React/Next.js, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP), he repeatedly turns prototypes into production systems and automations that improve developer productivity. As an early engineer at Iterate Labs he architected an end-to-end IoT analytics platform, and at Rockets of Awesome he delivered data pipelines and checkout improvements that boosted conversion. Now at HeyGen, he continues to pair hands-on engineering with team leadership and systems thinking. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and results-oriented, with a knack for reducing operational friction while scaling complex systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Cornell UniversityHigh School, High School at St. Thomas Aquinas High School
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Github Skills (199)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jrusso1020/anakin
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
Personal Gatsby Blog for James Russo
Contributions:2477 reviews, 471 commits, 487 PRs in 3 years 8 months
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jrusso1020/alpaca_elixir
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 65 commits in 1 year 8 months
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