Russell Davies
Executive Consultant at Blakemere Technologies Inc
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRussell Davies is an executive technology leader with 11+ years of senior IT and C-level experience steering engineering, architecture, and security for high-tech and financial organizations. He has led large global teams and multi-department functions—most recently as Canonical’s CIO—delivering cloud-native infrastructure, OS security, and enterprise-grade developer tooling across public and private clouds. At Manulife he drove architecture and cost efficiency for a major retirements platform overseeing 120+ architects and engineers, and he founded a profitable consultancy that bridged research-grade engineering with commercial delivery. Russell combines deep Linux and open-source expertise (Ubuntu/Red Hat) with hands-on experience in containers, Kubernetes, OpenStack, PCF and major cloud providers, and he has guided complex vendor selections and technology transfers. Known for translating R&D and product security work into operational value, he also brings an unusual background in electromagnetic research and PhD-level problem solving to practical systems design. Based in Montreal, he focuses on pragmatic, cost-effective transformations that align technical strategy with business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate The Control of Non-Specular Electromagnetic Scattering, PhD Candidate The Control of Non-Specular Electromagnetic Scattering at University of Hull
English
Github Skills (40)
python10
mouse10
ansible10
keyboard9
docker-machine9
devops9
automation9
multiarch9
ssh9
network8
openflow8
network-configuration7
infrastructure-as-code7
clustering7
synergy7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RusDavies/moose-inventory
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 52 commits, 47 pushes in 3 months
RusDavies/moose-aws-profile
Dec 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:34 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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