Summary
Johannes Russek is an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader with 12 years shaping reliability from startup scale to global enterprise, most notably as a Sr. Staff Engineer and Director at Spotify and now as SRE Lead at MongoDB. He excels at aligning technical strategy with business priorities, enabling cross-functional teams, and coaching engineers and leaders to make practical, risk-balanced decisions. Comfortable both in hands-on reliability work and in steering organizational direction, he has repeatedly built processes and roadmaps that scale as systems and teams grow. Based in Hoboken, NJ, he brings a pragmatic mindset forged in fast-moving product environments and a passion for making reliability an enabler of innovation rather than a constraint.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer