Russell Haering is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 17 years building cloud-native infrastructure, security platforms, and fast-moving product teams from Portland, OR. Currently VP of Engineering after serving as CTO of EdgeBit and founder/head of engineering at ScaleFT (acquired by Okta), he blends hands-on systems engineering with strategic product delivery in Zero Trust and server access. He has a track record of shipping complex cross-functional cloud products quickly at Rackspace and scaling a widely-deployed Zero Trust platform through acquisition and integration at Okta. A pragmatic contributor to open source, he improved the popular Go sql-migrate tooling to support command options and non-transactional migrations, showing attention to developer ergonomics and test coverage. Russell pairs entrepreneurial grit with a deep background in systems, monitoring, and deployment automation, and is known for turning infrastructure challenges into usable, secure products.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Oregon State University
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Russell focused on enhancing the functionality of the SQL schema migration tool. They refactored the `sqlparse` package to support passing options to commands, enabling features like running migrations outside of a transaction using the "notransaction" option. Their contributions included adding support for new command options and updating tests to validate the changes, improving the tool's flexibility and usability.
Contributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 56 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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