Russ Whitman
CEO at NodeSource
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorRuss Whitman is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur with 12 years of senior leadership experience building AI-driven product and growth strategies from startup to scale. As CEO of NodeSource he pairs deep domain knowledge in Node.js observability and security with AI-enabled diagnostics to help Dev and DevOps teams maintain performant, secure applications at scale. He has repeatedly led successful business transformations and exits—founding and selling companies into larger platforms like Globant—and has driven double-digit CAGR growth overseeing nine-figure P&Ls. Known for bridging creative digital experiences and practical cloud engineering, he has pushed innovations in conversational interfaces, serverless architectures, and voice/NLP adoption across global markets. Based in Seattle, he uniquely combines hands-on product instincts from his founder days with board-level strategy and go-to-market expertise for AI and cloud businesses.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
test-kitchen10
testing10
command-line-interface10
ruby10
automation10
infrastructure10
platform-specific10
command-line-tool10
inspec10
scale10
virtualization10
ansible10
vagrant10
cli10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
chef-training/chef-fundamentals-windows
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Chef Fundamentals 2.x on Windows
Contributions:2 commits, 2 comments in 7 days
fundamentalschefwindows2-x
vinyar/wsus
Feb 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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