Russell Parks
Lenexa, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRussell Parks is a senior software engineer and architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and modernizing large-scale enterprise systems from data pipelines to cloud-native platforms. He blends practical full-stack development with architecture leadership, having driven cross-team platform work at Garmin and mentored engineering career paths and competency models at consultancies like 27Global. As the owner of an architecture-driven consultancy, he helps organizations tackle technical debt, scalability, and long-term sustainability while remaining a pragmatic, delivery-focused engineer. His background spans big data, streaming, SRE, and RESTful platform design, and he has repeatedly led migrations and rewrites (e.g., Spark, microservices) that improved reliability and developer productivity. Based in Lenexa, Kansas, Russell pairs enterprise-scale rigor with the agility of a boutique consultant, often surfacing clarity and process improvements that stick beyond individual projects.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at MidAmerica Nazarene University
Github Skills (107)
python10
docx10
pdf10
spark-ml9
ansible9
notebook9
ssh9
spring9
orangepi8
1password8
science8
sdk8
reactive8
automation8
vsphere8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
solarmicrobe/connect-helm-charts
May 2022 - Feb 2025
Helm Charts for deploying 1Password Connect and the 1Password Connect Kubernetes Operator
Contributions:6 PRs, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
deployingcharts1passwordhelmoperator
solarmicrobe/udm-utilities-ansible-role
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 6 commits, 7 pushes in 9 months
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