Robby Russell
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top expert inModern Software Development and DevOps Practices
Robby Russell is a veteran software leader and founder with 20+ years helping teams modernize and sustain Ruby on Rails applications as CEO and Partner of Planet Argon. He combines strategic leadership with hands-on engineering—creator and long-time maintainer of Oh My Zsh, a widely used open-source zsh framework with thousands of contributors and millions of users. Robby hosts two podcasts (On Rails and Maintainable.fm) that surface practical lessons about maintainability, modernization, and the human side of software. His nontraditional path—from dropping out of high school to self-teaching code and launching community projects—shapes a pragmatic stewardship philosophy: preserve what works, modernize the rest. Beyond tech, he channels creative leadership as a founding guitarist in instrumental rock band The Mighty Missoula and as a long-serving nonprofit board member focused on housing stability.
21 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
application-framework10
zsh-completion10
wordpress-themes10
scripting10
app-framework10
bash-completion10
script10
sh10
web-framework10
shell10
zsh10
tab-completion10
cli10
completions10
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
robbyrussell/robbyrussell
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
My README
Contributions:16 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
robbyrussell/rubyurl
Jun 2007 - May 2022
💎 Your favorite URL-shortening service in all of Ruby land
Contributions:121 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 15 years 2 months
ruby
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