Build the product
TypeScript and React are home territory. I work across the interface, APIs, data, and infrastructure that make it useful.
Open to work
Good problem?
I’m in.
I’m Russell, a senior full-stack engineer who likes turning ambitious ideas into useful software. I bring hands-on engineering, architectural thinking, and a healthy urge to get things shipped.
From the first decision to the thing that ships.
Make the early calls
Turn an unclear problem into a practical architecture, clear interfaces, and work a team can move forward with.
Untangle what’s there
Work through migrations, performance problems, and complex existing systems while keeping the next delivery in sight.
A little evidence.
Coalesce
Move the platform. Keep it running.
A frontend cutover from Firestore to PostgreSQL, with dual writes, feature-flagged reads, and no customer-visible downtime.
Read the migration storyCoalesceFind a better way through.
A two-day ANTLR parser proof of concept ran 3–20× faster than the existing SQL parser. Architecture and tests gave the team a path forward.
Explore the parser POCMATTRBuild the systems behind the product.
Eventing, code generation, Kafka cost optimisation, and a global control-plane API and authentication plane built with my team.
Read about the eventing workBuilding professionally since 2019.
- ThreatSabre
- Coalesce
- MATTR
- Spidertracks
- Fisher Funds
- Laminar
- Kete Kai
- Shwoop
I make my own things, too.
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Browse your Git repositories in Finder. Download a checkout when it is time to work.
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Your recipes, without the clutter. A recipe book that keeps your data yours.
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What are you building?
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