Russell Conard
Principal Software Engineer at Dexcom
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRussell Conard is a Principal Software Engineer and product-minded technologist with over a decade building cloud-native systems, developer tools, and AI-enabled platforms across startups and Microsoft. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to projects like the Rust-based cloud-hypervisor—with product leadership designing developer experiences for Azure, Fabric, and AI agent replatforming. A founder-CEO turned enterprise architect, he has repeatedly digitized fieldwork and telemetry workflows for ecology and industrial customers, multiplying researcher impact through mobile and cloud tooling. His work marries customer obsession and technical depth: from biogeochemistry optimization and computer vision research to architecting secure, scalable IoT and deployment pipelines. Based in Redmond, he also co-founded Dunkadoo, delivering cloud tools that make large-scale field biology data collection practical and actionable.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (6)
system10
kvm10
rust10
architectures10
architecture10
virtualization10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:242 reviews, 82 commits, 73 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Russell primarily focused on implementing core functionalities related to the cloud hypervisor. They made improvements to the virtual machine monitor, including thread unparking and shutdown procedures within the VMM. The user also implemented and implemented MSHV support for memory and dirty logging features, indicating architectural contributions. Contributions also included adding and integrating the necessary traits and structures for the hypervisor's KVM implementation.
memorymonitorcompactfirecrackervirtualization
russell-islam/practice
Dec 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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