Ross Bell
Engineering Manager at Discord
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Bell is an engineering leader with 14 years of experience who has transformed teams and systems across startups and scale-ups, currently leading engineering at Discord. He excels at turning crisis teams into high-performing organizations, having restored accountability and relationships quickly while setting durable performance standards. Ross has driven major business impact—most notably delivering Kin’s first enterprise data product that saved over $10M annually and improving engineering velocity through SDLC observability and cultural change. He combines hands-on product engineering (Rails, Postgres, Elasticsearch, React) with people-first management, hiring and developing engineers through growth and difficult transitions. A repeat founder and operator, he scaled a B2B SaaS to $650K ARR and raised venture capital while serving as lead architect and CTO. Based in the Chicago area, he’s pragmatic about production reliability and pragmatic adoption of AI tools to boost developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Nebraska at Omaha
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Github Skills (35)
observability10
kibana10
elasticsearch-client10
elastic-enterprise-search10
connectors10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
java9
elasticsearch-plugin9
elastic-app-search8
ruby8
opensearch8
app-search7
eclipse6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RossAllenBell/bash-profile
Dec 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
RossAllenBell/rossallenbell.github.io
Apr 2012 - Jan 2023
Contributions:63 commits, 29 pushes in 10 years 10 months
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