Rolf Russell
Life Sciences Lead at TXI
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRolf Russell is a seasoned technology and product leader with 11+ years guiding digital and data-driven solutions across biopharma, digital health, education and nonprofits as Life Sciences Lead and Client Partner at TXI. He blends hands-on technical roots—from early software engineering and machine learning research in medical imaging—with senior operational roles including COO and CSO, enabling him to translate strategic vision into delivered products. Rolf founded and scaled global practices at ThoughtWorks, notably leading Continuous Delivery and co-founding the South Africa office, demonstrating an uncommon mix of technical depth and international business-building. He is passionate about leadership that challenges norms, creates high-performance teams, and focuses on the right opportunities to build software that matters. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he pairs an M.Sc. in AI from Edinburgh with a Cornell BS in Computer Science, reflecting both rigorous research training and practical delivery experience.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence, M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghCornell University
Japanese, Norwegian
Github Skills (11)
drag8
drag-and-drop8
draggable8
sortable8
jquery7
react-dnd6
splitter6
lists6
javascript5
droppable4
goto1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rolfrussell/ml_playground
Sep 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
rolfrussell/gpt3_summarizer
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:5 pushes in 20 days
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