Russ Jones
Founder at RJ Rainmaker Inc
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRuss Jones is a founder and Rainmaker with 12 years of formal tech experience layered on a multi-decade career selling and architecting TeleBusiness systems that convert cold calls into sustained revenue streams. Based in San Francisco, he combines deep sales methodology training (Miller Heiman, Sandler, SPIN) and hands-on TeleSales operations with a rigorous, metrics-driven approach to channel management, quota attainment, and customer retention. As owner of RJ Rainmaker Inc., he designs and implements mechanized tele-sales processes, compensation plans, and scripts that scale both short-cycle transactional and long-cycle consultative sales. He also contributes to security-focused open source work—strengthening host certificate management and migrating encryption to AES-GCM for the well-known Teleport project—showing a practical blend of sales leadership and technical security engineering. Known for relentless hunter drive balanced by long-term client growth mindset, he brings uncommon fluency across CRM/desktop telephony tools and the linguistic persuasion techniques that close deals.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
certificate10
go10
backend10
cert10
cryptography10
ssh10
security10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleport
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:246 releases, 2622 reviews, 2228 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Russ's commits focus on security-related enhancements to the Teleport infrastructure, particularly around host certificate management. These changes include strengthening the authentication process, improving certificate generation with dual principals, and migrating to AES-GCM encryption. The user also worked on code related to validating the certificates.
pamsshrdpjumpserversecure
russjones/teleport
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Certificate authority and access plane for SSH, Kubernetes, web apps, databases and desktops
Contributions:167 PRs, 126 pushes, 69 branches in 1 month
ssh-agentsshcapistranozero-trustcertificate-authority
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