Cody Russell

Software Engineer

Atlanta, Georgia, United States20 yrs 5 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in Elixir and Phoenix for web development.
  • Led teams in building complex backend systems.
  • Extensive experience in both frontend and backend technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer with a strong focus on web applications and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

ElixirWeb Application DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureRubyC++LinuxUser Interface DesignC#

Other Skills

PostgreSQLPhoenix LiveViewPhoenixJSONBack-End Web DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Full StackLeading Development TeamsREST APIsProblem SolvingGitFull-Stack DevelopmentCommunicationDockerJavaScript

About

Software developer, interested in web, mobile, and desktop UI. Experience with C, C++, C#, Elixir, and Ruby. I'm most interested in Elixir/Phoenix for web development. Also very interested in machine learning.

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Rx vortex

Software Engineer

Jun 2025Present · 1 yr · Remote

Level all

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr · Remote

  • Building an Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView application in the education space.
PostgreSQLWeb Application DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureElixirPhoenix LiveViewPhoenix+2

Superkind

Lead Software Engineer

Jun 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

  • Leading a team building the backend in Elixir, hosted on Google Cloud using Kubernetes, for a mobile AI shopping application. The backend also includes an admin interface built with Phoenix LiveView.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Full StackPostgreSQLLeading Development TeamsREST APIsWeb Application Development+26

Papa

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2022Jun 2023 · 11 mos · Remote

  • I was on the team that was responsible for registering new service providers (known as 'pals'). This involved such things as performing background checks and periodically pulling data from the Office of Inspector General to compare users against a government blacklist of healthcare service providers.
PostgreSQLREST APIsWeb Application DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureProblem SolvingElixir+10

Github

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2021Aug 2022 · 9 mos · Remote

  • I was on the GitHub Codespaces team. I worked across many parts of the product: Visual Studio Code extension (built with Typescript), APIs in different parts of the system that were written in either Ruby or C#, an internal service written in C#, infrastructure definitions in Kubernetes/Helm, and environment setup scripts using shell scripts such as bash.
TypeScriptLinux.NET FrameworkOpen SourceREST APIsVisual Studio Code+23

Microsoft

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

May 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote

  • I was on the Codespaces team (which was later transferred to GitHub and became GitHub Codespaces). I worked across many parts of the product: Visual Studio Code extension (built with Typescript), APIs in different parts of the system that were written in either Ruby or C#, an internal service written in C#, infrastructure definitions in Kubernetes/Helm, and environment setup scripts using shell scripts such as bash.
TypeScriptLinux.NET FrameworkOpen SourceREST APIsVisual Studio Code+23

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2016May 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Remote

  • I was on the Visual Studio for Mac team, where I worked on a number of different aspects of the IDE. I was the team member primarily responsible for maintaining our UI toolkits, parts of the Android tooling integration, and the authentication with Microsoft's identity provider. I also worked on accessibility support, international keyboard support, and Azure integration. I also made improvements to the Mono runtime, our open source C#/.NET platform.
.NET FrameworkOpen SourceREST APIsSoftware ArchitectureProblem SolvingOpen Source Software+17

Xamarin

Software Engineer

Jul 2013Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

  • I was on the Xamarin Studio team, where I worked on a number of different aspects of the IDE. I was the team member primarily responsible for maintaining our UI toolkits, parts of the Android tooling integration, and the authentication with Xamarin's identity provider. I also worked on accessibility support, international keyboard support, and Azure integration. I also made improvements to the Mono runtime, our open source C#/.NET platform.
Xamarin.FormsLinux.NET FrameworkOpen SourceSoftware ArchitectureWindows+17

Orgsync

Software Developer

Jan 2012Jul 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Dallas, TX · On-site

  • I worked on a Ruby on Rails application that is used by hundreds of schools and universities to manage organizations used by millions of users.
SASSAmazon Web Services (AWS)REST APIsWeb Application DevelopmentRubyProblem Solving+15

Simpli.fi

Software Engineer

Aug 2011Nov 2011 · 3 mos · Fort Worth, TX · On-site

  • I worked on a reporting backend built in Ruby and C++ for an online advertising system.
MySQLC++REST APIsWeb Application DevelopmentRubyProblem Solving+8

Mobestream media

Software Engineer

Mar 2011Aug 2011 · 5 mos · Dallas, Texas, United States

  • I worked on Key Ring, a mobile (iOS/Android/Windows Phone) app. I worked on the backend Ruby on Rails application, where I built a number of critical components such as the billing system that integrated with Braintree. I also built the Windows Phone version of the mobile app.
.NET FrameworkREST APIsWeb Application DevelopmentRubyWindowsProblem Solving+12

Canonical ltd.

Software Developer

Feb 2009Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

  • I worked on the Desktop Experience team for Ubuntu Linux. I worked on the multitouch gesture implementation and a number of new user interface features, improvements to the GTK user interface toolkit, and maintained related Debian packages.
LinuxOpen SourceX11Problem SolvingOpen Source SoftwareCommunication+7

Medsphere systems corporation

Software Developer

Aug 2006Feb 2009 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Aliso Viejo, California, United States · Remote

  • I worked on a suite of medical software products that were built in C# and designed to run natively on Linux and Windows. They used the GTK user interface toolkit to provide cross-platform UI. In addition to working on the company's products directly, I also was responsible for doing significant work on the upstream open source GTK library to improve it in ways that benefited our products, in particular on the Win32 backend where it had a lot of deficiencies. My open source work on GTK had significant impact on our company's products.
.NET FrameworkOpen SourceGTKX11WindowsProblem Solving+13

Scaleform corporation

Software Engineer

Sep 2004Jun 2005 · 9 mos · Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

  • Product development, documentation, demo/testing development for the GPU-accelerated user interface software that was used in Civilization IV for PC and other video games. Product was written in C++ using Direct3D for accelerated rendering.
C++WindowsProblem SolvingOpenGLVisual StudioCommunication+7

Education

The Johns Hopkins University

GPD — Music

Jan 2001Jan 2003

The University of Texas at Arlington

BA — Music

Jan 1998Jan 2001

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