NOTE: I'm actively recruiting senior engineers and leaders for Tapjoy's engineering tools team in San Francisco and Boston. If you know someone I should be speaking to, please send them my way. Specialties: Ruby, Java, Groovy, JVM languages, concurrency, performance, test automation, open source

Director of Tools @ I'm responsible for the Tools engineering team at Tapjoy. Some of the interesting areas we're working on are: - Automation libraries, production-like testing platforms, CI frameworks and a variety of other tools with other developers as our customers. - Mobile testing automation. Full matrix of device, OS version and SDK version automation - Tools for the rest of the business to increase visibility into day to day operations and customer interactions From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Principal Engineer @ From September 2012 to December 2013 (1 year 4 months) Software Architect @ Lead developer and architect for an enterprise premise based product development team. Responsible for team development, product technical direction, and integration with other related products. Started and maintain business unit wide common software project for shared development libraries. Initiated tech talk series for peer development. From January 2011 to September 2012 (1 year 9 months) Software Engineer @ software engineering, java middleware, infrastructure design, From September 2001 to January 2011 (9 years 5 months) Intern @ Intern in the Quality Assurance tools development group. Developed and augmented internal test automation tools. From June 2000 to August 2001 (1 year 3 months) Intern @ Designed and developed a database application for collecting and reporting on test data from an experimental custom makeup device. From June 1999 to September 1999 (4 months)

Masters, Information Technology @ Harvard University From 2004 to 2010 Bachelor of Science (BS), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology @ The University of Connecticut From 1996 to 2001 Trumbull High School From 1992 to 1996 John Russell is skilled in: Groovy, REST, Solr, Cassandra, Java, Linux, Ruby on Rails, Open Source, Concurrent Programming, Agile Methodologies, Distributed Systems, Scalability, JavaScript, Spring, Unix