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.
15 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 (56)
http-exception10
exception-handling10
dsl9
coercion9
type-safety9
dry-rb9
xml9
html8
background-service8
rails8
ruby8
validation8
data-validation7
snapshots7
material-design7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
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
evvnt/docker-pg-commands
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
A docker container that has the postgres client tools along with scripts for managing testing database snapshots.
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
database-testingtestingdockersnapshotsdocker-compose
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