Russell Parmer
Staff Software Engineer at Splunk
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRussell Parmer is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and stabilizing cloud-native systems, currently leading engineering work at Splunk after senior roles at Weaveworks and State Farm. He brings deep operational focus—demonstrated by contributions to Weave GitOps around kube client timeouts, environment-driven configuration, and build/test pipeline tweaks—to improve reliability and developer experience. A strong practitioner of infrastructure-as-code and configuration management, he pairs pragmatic DevOps instincts with software engineering rigor and attention to linting and CI quality. Graduating top of his class in Computer Software Engineering from Arizona State University, Russell combines academic excellence with a track record of shipping resilient systems across enterprise and open-source projects.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, 4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, 4.0 at Arizona State University
Github Skills (12)
gitops10
kubernetes10
fluxor10
docker10
cloud-native10
k8s10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
flux10
go9
git8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
weaveworks/weave-gitops
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Weave GitOps is transitioning to a community driven project! It provides insights into your application deployments, and makes continuous delivery with GitOps easier to adopt and scale across your teams.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 20 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Russell primarily contributed to infrastructure and configuration aspects of the project. Their work involved increasing timeouts for kube client interactions and integrating environment variable options, indicating a focus on stability and configuration management. They also addressed linting errors, demonstrating an attention to code quality and adherence to coding standards. Furthermore, they were involved in merging code branches and modifying screenshot generation scripts, showing they were involved in the build pipeline, or possibly testing the deployment.
ossweavekubernetesfluxweave-gitops
rparmer/tekton-pipeline-environments
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:107 PRs, 55 pushes, 99 branches in 16 days
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