Summary
Russell Day is a software development manager with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, distributed systems for startups and Fortune 500 companies. He has deep hands-on expertise in AWS, C#, MS SQL Server, Node.js and performance-tuned, high-availability web applications across industries like event ticketing, finance and membership management. At Amazon and Ring he moved between solutions architecture, systems engineering and management roles—helping launch Amazon Pinpoint and stabilizing services under intense demand. He’s equally comfortable architecting scalable data tiers and writing operational scripts or dashboards to tame production issues. Known for quickly learning domain workflows, he translates business needs into pragmatic technical solutions that balance cost, reliability and performance. Based in California, he pairs a database-first background with cloud-native patterns to solve thorny operational problems few engineers enjoy tackling.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Grissom
MIS, MIS at Auburn University
English