Jason Russell
CTO & Co-Founder at FinWise
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Russell is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building consumer fintech and developer-focused products across South Africa and Switzerland. As Co-Founder of Cogito and former CTO & Co-Founder of FinWise—the country’s top budgeting app—he blends hands-on engineering with product-led growth and startup scaling. He’s led teams from early-stage coding schools (TechUp) to product and engineering roles at Root and Aruba/HPE, and has a track record as a fractional CTO helping startups ship fast. Trained as an engineer at the University of Cape Town, Jason pairs rigorous technical foundations with a knack for turning personal-finance friction into delightful user experiences. Less obvious: he moves between markets and roles fluidly, operating as both a maker and an operator across continents.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons Engineering, BSc Hons Engineering at University of Cape TownHigh School, High School at Bishops Diocesan College
English, Afrikaans, German
Stackoverflow
1,236reputation
357kreached
4answers
27questions
Github Skills (136)
dashboard10
postgresql10
component-library10
semantic-ui10
job-scheduler10
semantic-ui-react10
clojure10
fork10
task-scheduler10
fomantic-ui10
job-queue10
queue10
database10
cli10
mysql10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
queuekit/queuekit-connector-bull
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
The Bull connector for QueueKit.com
Contributions:23 releases, 59 commits, 44 pushes in 1 year
bulljobjob-queuejob-schedulernodejs
queuekit/queuekit-connector-bullmq
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 12 commits, 8 pushes in 7 months
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