Russell Magee
Senior Software Engineering at Simply Embedded
Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRussell Magee is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience in embedded systems, Linux bring-up, and backend development, currently based in Courtenay, BC. He blends low-level expertise in C, assembler and ARM board bring-up with modern backend work in Go, Docker/Kubernetes and PostgreSQL, often authoring build and automation tooling. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has a long history of porting RTOS and maintaining security backports at companies like Wind River and Shaw, and now focuses on ARM Linux and CVE verification at Simply Embedded. Russell is also an active open-source contributor—he enhanced the popular go-callvis tool to improve Go call-graph visualization and usability. Beyond code, he’s a thoughtful tinkerer who enjoys MIDI, synth collecting and exploring APL, reflecting a curiosity that drives both creative and technical solutions.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of CalgaryDiploma (University Transfer), Computer Science, President's Honour Roll, Diploma (University Transfer), Computer Science, President's Honour Roll at Mount Royal University
Github Skills (7)
go10
graphviz10
command-line9
command-line-interface9
visualization8
static-analysis8
visualizations8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ondrajz/go-callvis
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Visualize call graph of a Go program using Graphviz
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Russell primarily focused on enhancing the `go-callvis` tool, adding functionality and improving usability. Their contributions included implementing command-line options for output file format and other options. They also addressed bug fixes and refactored code to enhance the tool's features and improve user experience.
callgraphgographvizvisualizationgolang
Russtopia/go-callvis
Nov 2018 - Feb 2023
Visualize call graph of a Go program using dot format.
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 3 months
golangdotvisualizecall-graphgraph
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