Luke Russell
Principal Network Consultant at Fortis Data
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Russell is a Principal Network Consultant based in Brisbane with 10 years of progressive experience designing, building and operating complex enterprise and cloud networks across public sector, utilities, rail and fast-growing tech firms. He blends hands-on routing, switching, firewall and wireless expertise (Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper) with network automation and architectural leadership from roles at Queensland Police, Canva and Inland Rail. Comfortable in both tactical delivery and strategic design, he has led operational support teams, defence network programs and cloud network engineering at scale. Outside of enterprise networking he contributes embedded firmware for mechanical keyboards on GitHub, reflecting a practical hardware-software curiosity and attention to low-level systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
ipSpace Building Network Automation Solutions courseCertificate IV Electrotechnology Communications, Certificate IV Electrotechnology Communications at Scientific Management AssociatesCertificate IV Telecommunications Engineering, Certificate IV Telecommunications Engineering at Australian Army
Github Skills (8)
firmware10
adafruit-circuit-python10
python10
keyboard10
rp20409
micropython8
atmel8
stm7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
KMKfw/kmk_firmware
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Clackety Keyboards Powered by Python
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributes to the firmware for mechanical keyboards, focusing on keymap customization and integration with microcontroller hardware. Their commits involve modifying keymaps, incorporating modules for features like layers, encoders, and dynamic sequences. The user actively refactors and debugs the keyboard firmware code base. They are also seen working with hardware-specific configurations for boards such as the Fingerpunch FFKB and Nice Nano.
rp2040samd51keyboardsnrf52840python
LukeDRussell/kmk_firmware
Mar 2022 - Nov 2023
Clackety Keyboards Powered by Python
Contributions:62 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 8 months
keyboardspythonttkpyqtkeyboard
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