Will Russell
Developer Advocate
Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Russell is a Developer Advocate with 7 years' experience turning complex developer products into clear, usable learning experiences through video, writing, and live demos. He helped scale Major League Hacking’s fellowship programs to 1,200+ graduates and built curriculum and tooling that halved issue resolution time, while more recently driving Kestra’s video strategy and documentation improvements that supported 225K YouTube views and a growing channel. Comfortable both in code and content, he contributes technical docs to the open-source Kestra workflow platform, improving migration guides, examples and developer UX across core and UI modules. His background in event production and livestream graphics informs a practical, audience-first approach to developer education that blends production polish with hands-on technical depth. He holds a First Class BSc in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham and pairs curriculum design experience with real-world platform evangelism.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, 1st Class, BSc, Computer Science, 1st Class at University of Birmingham
Stackoverflow
23reputation
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Github Skills (15)
markdown10
markdown-it10
documentation10
workflow-automation9
orchestration9
orchestra9
scientific-notation6
listview6
windows6
rounding6
forms6
python6
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java5
javas5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kestra-io/kestra
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
:zap: Workflow Automation Platform. Orchestrate & Schedule code in any language, run anywhere, 500+ plugins. Alternative to Zapier, Rundeck, Camunda, Airflow...
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:27 reviews, 16 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on improving the project's documentation. Their commits involved correcting typos, adding examples, providing migration guides, and updating video links. They also addressed deprecated content and refined existing documentation across various components, including scheduling, error handling, and examples within the core and UI modules. These changes collectively enhance the clarity and usability of the Kestra platform.
pythondataschedulerdata-integritymonitoring
hackathonsforschools/website
Nov 2019 - Jul 2021
🔥 Hackathons for Schools Website
Contributions:1 review, 180 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 8 months
reactjavascriptreactjstypescriptschools
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