John Russell
Director Of Engineering at HubSpot
Acton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Russell is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-throughput systems, developer tools, and automation platforms across companies like HubSpot, Tapjoy, and Cisco. As Director of Engineering, he combines deep JVM expertise (Ruby, Java, Groovy) and a practical focus on concurrency, performance, and test automation to deliver reliable production systems and internal developer tooling. He has repeatedly led cross-functional teams responsible for video ad delivery, reporting APIs, job systems, and CI/test infrastructures that scale to large user and data volumes. John is also a talent-focused manager who actively recruits senior engineers and leaders, reflecting a hands-on approach to growing high-performing teams. His background in both enterprise architecture and tooling for mobile/device testing gives him a rare blend of product-facing and developer-facing engineering experience. Based in Acton, MA, he pairs technical breadth with a knack for pragmatic open-source and automation solutions that reduce operational friction.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information Technology, Masters Information Technology at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at University of ConnecticutTrumbull High School
Github Skills (66)
jenkins-api-plugin10
jenkins-plugin10
remoting10
agent10
aws10
aem10
jenkins9
java9
music8
notation8
qt8
cpp8
music-notation7
musicxml7
keyboard7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jjrussell/emacs.d
Oct 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
jjrussell/ec2-plugin
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
jenkinsjavaec2jenkins-plugin
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