Summary
Ryan Russell is a Staff Cloud Engineer with nine years of hands-on cloud and DevOps experience, specializing in AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and Terraform. He has led multi-account AWS architectures, secure cross-account deployments, and complex migrations—including moving on-prem GitHub Enterprise to cloud-hosted GitHub Enterprise Cloud—while consulting for enterprises and startups. As an independent consultant and contractor he combines deep technical craft (Terraform modules, CI/CD, automated migration tooling) with practical customer collaboration across time zones. Ryan holds multiple AWS certifications and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and brings an uncommon blend of regulated-environment experience (GovCloud) and real-world automation that keeps systems resilient, auditable, and developer-friendly.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering at Sonoma State University