Russ Alexander
Senior Engineering Manager at Redfin
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuss Alexander is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Seattle with over a decade of experience delivering large-scale, customer-focused programs across consumer and platform businesses. He has repeatedly led cross-organizational efforts to bring new products and technologies to market and to iteratively improve mature offerings at companies including Redfin, Stripe, and Microsoft. His background blends hands-on development leadership from early-career engineering roles with senior program and product management, giving him a rare fluency in both technical trade-offs and organizational delivery. Known for landing high-value, complex initiatives, he excels at aligning engineering, product, and business stakeholders to drive measurable outcomes. Russ’s career shows a pattern of returning to organizations (notably Redfin and Microsoft) in more senior roles, signaling a reputation for dependable delivery and institutional impact. He holds a BS from Texas A&M and brings practical, execution-oriented leadership to fast-moving product teams.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (20)
hyper-v10
code-behind10
windows10
linux10
wsl210
windows-server10
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
documentation10
subsystem10
gps4
dog4
python3
connected3
home-assistant-integration3
linksys3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
shanselman/sinatrademo
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 44 pushes in 25 days
MicrosoftDocs/WSL
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Source code behind the Windows Subsystem for Linux documentation.
Contributions:18 releases, 73 commits, 5 PRs in 9 months
windows-servercode-behindwindowswindows-subsystemwindows-subsystem-for-linux
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