Joel Russell
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Hospitality Solutions Group
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoel Russell is a Senior Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, currently leading engineering at Opsyte and a partner in its parent company, Hospitality Solutions Group. A first-class Computer Science graduate from the University of Surrey, he blends full-stack engineering with deep domain interest in broadcast engineering and live events, having directed large student broadcasts and moderated high-attendance events. He has progressed through hands-on roles at Opsyte from developer to senior lead, and previously delivered a funded live-events platform at andeye. Joel pairs product-focused engineering with practical event production skills—he still volunteers and freelances as an event photographer and on-camera host—bringing rare empathy for end-user and live operational concerns. Colleagues rely on him for shipping pragmatic, scalable features under live-event constraints and for bridging technical teams with production operations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons), Computer Science, First class honours, Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons), Computer Science, First class honours at University of Surrey
Italian, English
Github Skills (1)
energy8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JoelRussell/compsoc
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:10 pushes in 9 months
JoelRussell/OmniBusWight
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.