Russel Olinger
Founder & CJO at AttendaGo
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRussel Olinger is a seasoned network architect, security consultant and founder with over 25 years designing and migrating networking, load-balancing and firewall solutions across Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, F5 and Avaya platforms. He combines hands-on Sr. automation programming and mobile app development skills—AngularJS, Python, Perl, Ansible and more—with deep infrastructure expertise to bridge the common communication gap between developers and network engineers. His background spans enterprise and ISP core backbones through leadership roles at Bank of America, HP and Sprint, and entrepreneurial experience founding AttendaGo and Whipster. Known for delivering low-investment, fast-turnaround solutions, he emphasizes accountability and practical automation to reduce operational friction. Based in Tampa, Florida, Russel brings both strategic vision and bench-level execution, often translating complex vendor systems into developer-friendly integrations. An uncommon strength is his near two-decade track record of acting as the technical translator between programming teams and network engineers, which accelerates delivery and reduces risks.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Radford University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (194)
phonegap10
crosswalk10
facebook-sdk10
command-line-interface10
cordova-android10
startapp10
cordova-plugin10
excel10
iso10
google-map10
google-maps10
firebase10
javascript10
apache-cordova10
camera10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rolinger/cordova-plugin-file-downloader
Dec 2020 - May 2026
Phonegap plugin to download a list of files or a single file to the phone, check consistency and unzip if necessary (Android and ios)
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 6 months
cordova-androidphonephonegap-plugincordovaunzip
rolinger/cordova-plugin-fastrde-checkgps
Feb 2018 - May 2026
Contributions:5 pushes in 8 years 4 months
gpsiosandroid
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