Russell Edens
CTO at Evvnt
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRussell Edens is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 14+ years in senior leadership and a career spanning founding startups to architecting enterprise systems. He led product and engineering at Evvnt since 2015 after a decade as CEO/co-founder of OptiShot Golf and an earlier role as Chief Architect at Concur, demonstrating strengths in scaling teams and shipping market-facing hardware and software products. Grounded in mathematics and computer science from Western Michigan University, he pairs strong technical craft with business acumen to bridge product, engineering, and operations. Known as an "alpha geek" who still enjoys low-level problem solving, he brings a hands-on mindset to architecture and continuous improvement. Based in Traverse City, Michigan, he favors collaborative leadership that turns complex requirements into practical, reliable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Michigan State UniversityBS, Mathematics, Computer Science, BS, Mathematics, Computer Science at Western Michigan University
Github Skills (74)
exception-handling10
c3js9
xml9
http-exception9
background-service8
validation8
ruby8
dry-rb8
type-safety8
coercion8
json8
dsl8
data-validation7
architecture7
presenter7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rx/prefatory
Dec 2018 - May 2021
Prefatory provides an ultra-lightweight storage of entities (models or values/attributes) in a non-transactional preliminary key value store (redis or memcache).
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 5 months
redismemcachetransactionalredis-storeultra
coprl/chart_presenter_plugin
Jun 2021 - Mar 2023
A COPRL presenters plugin for charts - uses the C3 chart library
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 9 months
chartschartchart-librarychartjs-pluginplugin
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