Mitchell Russell is a full-stack developer with eight years of experience building data-driven web applications and developer tooling, currently working at Manas.Tech after several impactful roles at Discover Financial Services. He has designed and shipped end-to-end data science workbenches and platform automation, touching front end, back end, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes on OpenShift. Comfortable mentoring new engineers, Mitchell blends hands-on coding with system design and onboarding practices to accelerate team delivery. His curiosity extends beyond typical stacks—he actively explores low-level languages like Zig to understand systems-level tradeoffs that inform safer, more maintainable higher-level code. Based in Chicago, he balances a programmer’s discipline with real-world hobbies like cooking and reading, which he credits for fostering creativity and focus.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Illinois State University
Web based app built using React that connects to Spotify and allows users to create a "room" in order to queue songs using a single user's (the room owner's) Spotify account.
Contributions:88 commits, 22 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 months
reactsingle-userspotify-accountweb-basedaccount
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