Russell Teabeault
Sr Principal, Software Engineer at Workday
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Teabeault is a pragmatic, execution-focused senior principal software engineer with over two decades of industry experience and 13 years in senior roles driving large-scale systems. Based in Boulder, he has led high-impact initiatives at Twitter—owning Enterprise/Public APIs tied to $400M annual revenue, real-time consumption tracking that cut latency from 30 minutes to 10 seconds, and petabyte-scale privacy scrubbing—and now applies that operational rigor at Workday. He repeatedly champions continuous delivery, having moved organizations from multi-week releases to daily deploys and cut infrastructure costs dramatically by tuning distributed systems and reducing cloud request volumes. Equally comfortable in backend systems, search, and deployment automation, Russell blends hands-on coding (Java, Clojure, Scala) with mentoring and teaching to raise team capability. A practical innovator, he often focuses on simplifying complexity—turning slow, expensive processes into efficient, scalable pipelines that unlock product and developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
English, German
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Github Skills (127)
reactive10
prompt10
shell10
concurrent10
java10
zsh10
asynchronous10
oh-my-zsh9
todoist9
emacs9
continuation9
concurrent-programming9
vim9
effects9
concurrency9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rteabeault/MorphMan
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Anki plugin that reorders language cards based on the words you know
Contributions:23 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
wordsankianki-plugin
rteabeault/spaceship-zsh-theme
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
oh-my-rocketastronautsoh-my-zsh-themezsh-theme
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