Will Russell
Senior Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolWill Russell is a Senior Software Maintenance Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience focused on OpenShift networking and platform reliability at Red Hat. He progressed through support and maintenance roles to become an OpenShift SME, blending deep diagnostic and escalation skills with practical networking and Linux administration. Prior roles at Duke University Health System and the Guggenheim demonstrate a history of building operational tooling, custom automation, and maintaining infrastructure at scale. Will’s background also includes large-scale user training and documentation—he has trained thousands at Apple and maintains internal GitLab and Confluence resources—so he pairs technical troubleshooting with clear knowledge transfer. Based in Cary, NC, he’s known for pragmatic solutions that bridge developer and operator needs, with a penchant for scripting and reproducible platform fixes.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Walt Whitman High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology at Purdue University
Russian
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Github Skills (60)
kubernetes10
consensus10
commons10
key-value-store10
key-value10
storage10
kafka10
distributed-systems10
etcd10
go10
segmentation10
openshift10
raft10
distributed-database10
documentation10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Scotchman0/shift-networking-toolkit
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
A collection of scripts designed to aid in data gather and analysis
Contributions:6 reviews, 19 PRs, 148 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Scotchman0/notes
May 2021 - Mar 2025
simple CLI notes-app, for quick-reference on the fly, like TLDR, CHEAT or MAN PAGES, but with your own entries for faster lookup.
Contributions:20 PRs, 90 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
string-matchingnotescheatsheettldrcli
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