Russ White
Principal Architect at Nokia
Louisville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuss White is a Principal Architect with over two decades of experience designing, breaking, and rebuilding large-scale long-haul, data center, campus, and mobile networks across industry and culture boundaries. He blends hands-on protocol and architecture work—from developing link-state fabric designs at LinkedIn to steering carrier-grade data center and ASIC efforts at Ericsson—with a passion for privacy, security, and simplicity. A prolific educator and community builder, he has written multiple books, helped develop CCDE/CCAr certifications, lectures at the University of Colorado, and co-hosts two long-running networking podcasts. His open-source contributions include refining parser capabilities in notable projects like fastparse, reflecting a comfort with both low-level protocol detail and practical tooling. Holding advanced degrees in technology and philosophy, Russ studies the intersection of technology and culture and brings that perspective to pragmatic, human-centered network design.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Arts Biblical Literature, Masters of Arts Biblical Literature at Shepherds Theological SeminaryMasters in Information Technology Network Design, Masters in Information Technology Network Design at Capella UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Culture, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Github Skills (6)
text-parsing10
parsing10
scala10
testing9
software-design9
documentation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
com-lihaoyi/fastparse
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Writing Fast Parsers Fast in Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Russ primarily contributed to adding and refining a `filter` function within the `fastparse` library, a Scala-based parsing library. They implemented the core logic for the filter functionality, including the `Filtered` parser and its interaction with the `ParserApi`. The user also improved the testing of the filter functionality, updated the documentation, and addressed formatting issues. Their work focused on expanding and refining the core parsing capabilities of the library.
scalaparseparsersparser
early-effect/Anode
Jul 2019 - Apr 2021
A Scala.JS facade for Preact with emphasis on functional/stateless components.
Contributions:100 commits, 21 PRs, 135 pushes in 1 year 9 months
reactstatelessfacadepreactscala
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