Roy Russo
Chief Technology Officer at Momnt
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoy Russo is a seasoned technology executive and hands-on CTO with 13+ years scaling engineering organizations from zero to over 80 people and three successful startup exits across FinTech, predictive analytics, and SaaS. He combines deep expertise in AI/ML, MLOps, big data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Spark), and cloud-native architectures with a track record of re-platforming legacy systems into cost-efficient, microservices-based platforms used by Fortune 100 customers. A pragmatic builder who still codes, Roy founded ElasticHQ—an Elasticsearch monitoring tool with millions of downloads—and co-authored Elasticsearch in Action, reflecting strong open-source and search-system credentials. He’s known for creating lean, high-performing teams through mentorship and rigorous hiring, and for driving measurable business outcomes like $120M annual loan originations and significant AWS cost reductions. Based in Atlanta, he uniquely blends product-minded delivery, regulatory/security experience in lending, and an extensive personal network for recruiting top-tier engineering talent.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at Rollins CollegeBA Economics, BA Economics at Florida International University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
javascript10
angularjs10
rest-api9
elasticsearchquery8
elasticsearch8
css8
html8
elasticsearch-api8
amazon-elasticsearch8
front-end-development8
aws-elasticsearch8
ui-design7
spring-social6
spring-security6
bower6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ElasticHQ/elasticsearch-HQ
May 2013 - Nov 2021
Monitoring and Management Web Application for ElasticSearch instances and clusters.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 643 commits, 41 PRs in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Roy primarily worked on implementing and refining the node diagnostic screen, indicating a focus on the front-end user interface and the back-end systems involved in monitoring ElasticSearch instances. They made code changes to the NodeTemplate files and updated the UI components to display more meaningful information. They were involved with code changes to the Reindex and Alias API and adding some code samples. They also made changes to the CSS files.
instancesclustersweb-applicationkibanaelasticsearch-plugin
royrusso/royrusso.github.io
Jan 2018 - Feb 2025
My personal blog
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
jekyllmy-personal-blog
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