Russell Smiley
Fractional CTO, Board Advisor, Founder at Byting Chipmunk
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRussell Smiley is a seasoned technology leader and fractional CTO with 11 years of software-focused experience and a multi-decade background in RF and embedded systems engineering. He excels at translating non-technical business problems into revenue- and profit-driving technical solutions, automating complex deployment pipelines, and restoring brittle legacy builds to production. Russell combines hands-on delivery—CI/CD, containerized deployments, and high-test-coverage services—with strategic account and board-level advising for enterprise and startup clients. His work spans from cloud automation that cut deployment time from weeks to hours to embedded IoT recovery on ARM64, reflecting uncommon full-stack fluency across hardware, firmware, and cloud. Based in Ottawa, he brings a pragmatic, DRY-driven engineering philosophy and a knack for making technical processes clear, repeatable, and aligned to business goals.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (87)
testing10
test-framework10
cpp10
bdd10
tdd10
mutation-testing9
ubuntu9
build-agent9
rust8
beancount8
golang8
k8s8
python8
docker8
system-testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
blueskyjunkie/blueskyjunkie.github.io
Oct 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:139 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
blueskyjunkie/timetools
Feb 2015 - Feb 2020
Python utilities relating to synchronization analysis and visualization
Contributions:3 releases, 17 PRs, 82 pushes in 5 years 1 month
python-utilitiespythonsynchronizationanalysisvisualization
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