Russell Juma
Vice President, Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Juma is a vice president and lead software engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience architecting cloud-native platforms and scalable data pipelines, currently driving multi-cloud VM-to-Kubernetes migration and backend API reliability at JPMorgan Chase. He combines deep Python, Django, and systems engineering expertise with practical ML/NLP applied to SRE problems—automating log clustering and creating adaptive Selenium test frameworks that self-heal with LLM-driven locators. His work has delivered dramatic runtime and codebase reductions (up to 99% and 80% respectively) while improving security and portability through a unified ORM and shared core libraries. Earlier roles at Code Mountain and Trailer Park honed his ETL, forecasting, and petabyte-scale storage automation skills, enabling predictive analytics on million-plus daily records. Known for bridging product ownership and hands-on development, he focuses on measurable platform cost savings, developer velocity, and operational resiliency. Based in Plano, Texas, he brings a blend of technical depth and cross-domain pragmatism—plus a surprising background that spans legal studies and aviation training.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Degree, Legal Studies - Minor in Computer Science, B.A. Degree, Legal Studies - Minor in Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyAviation, Aviation at Glendale Community CollegeMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderParalegal Certification, Paralegal Certification at American Bar Association
English, visual basic, php, javascript, python, java
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Github Skills (12)
sugarcrm6
android-emulator6
android-studio6
google-trends6
android6
python6
java6
php5
agent4
sip4
voip4
user-agent3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RussellJuma/PySuiteCRM
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 1 year 11 months
RussellJuma/Monopoly
May 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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